The province has 117,000 accounts with nearly 2,500 products put on e-commerce platforms, and over 50,000 successful online transactions in the year. Five businesses and cooperatives brought 75 products satisfying export standards to international e-commerce platforms.

Thanks to technology utilisation in production and business, farmers and owners of cooperatives have reaped fruits. About four years ago, some cooperatives in the province began to access e-commerce. They put clean and safe agricultural products, especially processed ones and others meeting VietGap and “One Commune-One Product” standards on e-commerce platforms.

With more than 84,700 hectares of fruit trees of all kinds, along with improvements in livestock and aquaculture, Son La is home to diverse agricultural products. Local farmers have made use of technological advances in product sale, which is considered an effective and indispensable solution to ensure sustainable production and business.

Aware of the importance of e-commerce, Son La has adopted many solutions to support people, businesses, and cooperatives in applying technology in product promotion and sale over the past years. It has deployed the traceability system, set up accounts, managed traceability information through the NBC-TRACE system, and organised livestreaming sessions and livestreaming training courses on online sales, benefiting more than 140,200 farming households.

In 2023, Son La worked to expand the 4G mobile network coverage to all of its hamlets. Up to 67.86% of local households accessed the fiber optic broadband Internet network, and the number of mobile subscribers with smartphones reached 59.64%.

Son La has continued its coordination with telecoms businesses to mobilise all resources to accelerate the deployment of fiber optic cable network and broadband mobile network, and provide postpaid terrestrial mobile telecoms services, and smartphones for poor and near-poor households. It has also encouraged medical facilities, schools and residents in urban areas to use cashless payment channels, digital social platforms and essential digital services.

Technology and the Internet have come to every corner of hamlets, with strong impacts on people’s lives. Each producer and businessperson have gradually approached and integrated into the digital economy in many forms and scales and at different levels to sell their products, raise revenue and especially bring Son La's agricultural products to markets in and outside the province quickly./.