Cultural heritage is a strong endogenous resource in the future socio-economic development of Uong Bi City. Therefore, the preservation and promotion of heritage values have received special attention from the city.
Uong Bi City currently has 31 relics, including 2 special national relics, 7 provincial relics and 22 relics in the inventory and classification list. These relics are all associated with unique festivals, imbued with the cultural identity of the indigenous people. The city has 32 intangible cultural heritages with 6 types including: 8 social customs heritages, 6 folk performing arts heritages, 5 traditional festival heritages, 5 folk literature heritages, 7 folk knowledge heritages and 1 language and writing heritage.
In recent years, the preservation and promotion of the cultural heritage values of Uong Bi have been concretized with plans and action programs implemented in a very synchronous and comprehensive manner regarding the culture and people of Uong Bi with general goals, 18 specific targets, and 5 groups of tasks and solutions. In which, specific targets and solutions have been set out to preserve, restore and promote the values of cultural heritages in Uong Bi, architectural works and landscapes with traditional and unique cultural identities.
The work of compiling records for ranking relics has always been of interest and importance to the city. The preservation and promotion of the value of cultural heritages has been implemented with attention by Party committees and authorities at all levels; they have coordinated to compile scientific records for typical cultural heritages of the Yen Tu Relics and Landscape Complex to submit to UNESCO for recognition as a World Heritage Site.
The city always pays attention to preserving some types of intangible culture, restoring and developing typical traditional cultural and artistic forms, and the culture of ethnic minorities; embellishing historical and cultural relics to serve traditional education and economic development.
The city also focuses on restoring, embellishing and promoting the value of relics in accordance with the Law on Cultural Heritage. With funding support from the state budget and socialized sources, Uong Bi has restored and prevented degradation of most historical relics in the area; collected, preserved and promoted the value of treasures, antiques and ancient relics; called on and attracted businesses to invest in building infrastructure in the relic area; researched the planning to preserve, restore and upgrade the architecture and landscape of a number of villages with unique traditional national cultural identities to become "living museums"; researched the effective application of policies and mechanisms of superiors to support and encourage the activities and development of folk culture clubs.
Uong Bi City also focuses on training human resources to enhance the application of digital transformation with big data technology, artificial intelligence, virtual reality/augmented reality (VR/AR) in the work of preserving, restoring and promoting the value of local cultural heritages in the context of integration. The city has built a separate website for Yen Tu relic site, implemented the project "Application of information technology in management and promotion of Yen Tu relic site", 3D digitization of cultural spaces, relics and artifacts in Yen Tu, helping visitors to easily learn about cultural spaces and artifacts in a virtual environment before visiting.
According to Associate Professor, Dr. Dang Van Bai, Vice Chairman of the National Cultural Heritage Council, Uong Bi City needs inter-regional and inter-provincial cooperation to build a chain of spiritual tourism products. To develop spiritual tourism, Uong Bi City must inevitably build comprehensive, interdisciplinary projects (heritage and tourism are the main ones) to create complete, attractive tourism products with high commercial value, which can be sold many times, to many people with high value. The core of Uong Bi's tours, routes, and spiritual tourism destinations is the Yen Tu Historical Relic and Landscape Complex. However, this relic site is only one of four important components that make up the Yen Tu Relic and Landscape Complex (Quang Ninh), Vinh Nghiem (Bac Giang), and Con Son - Kiep Bac (Hai Duong). Therefore, inter-regional and inter-provincial cooperation to build a chain of spiritual tourism products to fully exploit the potential and resources of a world cultural heritage site in the near future is an urgent issue that needs to be resolved.
In the coming time, Uong Bi City needs to coordinate with the Department of Culture and Sports, Quang Ninh Museum to review, conduct a general inventory of relics, preserve, restore and promote the value of the system of historical and cultural relics and scenic spots, build scientific dossiers on the relics with the participation of experts in the fields of architecture, history, archaeology, Han Nom... In which, priority is given to investing in preserving and restoring relics ranked as special national relics, such as the Truc Lam Yen Tu Zen sect relic system, Den Cong communal house (belonging to the historical relic site of Bach Dang victory in 1288); next may be relics such as the Memorial Area of Uncle Ho's visit to Uong Bi in 1965, religious and belief relics that have been degraded and damaged (such as Tu Phu temple, Vong temple, Bi Trung pagoda in Vang Danh ward, Lang temple in Quang Trung ward) and revolutionary historical relics.
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