On the afternoon of April 27, the International Scientific Conference "Promoting the role and value of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage of Trang An Scenic Landscape Complex in building a Millennium Heritage City and connecting world heritage cities" continued with the discussion session "Planning to preserve and comprehensively promote the value of Trang An World Heritage towards a Millennium Heritage City".
Comrade Pham Quang Ngoc, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Prof. Dr. Nguyen Quoc Thong - Vietnam Association of Architects; Comrade Bui Van Manh, Director of the Department of Tourism co-chaired the discussion session. Also attending were domestic and international experts, scientists, researchers; representatives of a number of relevant departments, branches and sectors.
Speaking at the opening of the discussion session, Mr. Bui Van Manh, Director of the Department of Tourism, emphasized: Ninh Binh is one of the typical localities with a World Heritage Site in the heart of the urban center - a rare manifestation of the urban - rural elements existing in parallel; the urban - rural elements support and develop together.
However, the heritage is facing challenges, which are conflicts and contradictions in the development process, ensuring balanced development between protection, conservation, and promotion of world cultural, historical, and natural values associated with rapid and sustainable socio-economic development. Especially when Ninh Binh implements Decision No. 821/QD-TTg of the Prime Minister dated July 10, 2023 "Planning for preservation, restoration, and rehabilitation of Trang An - Tam Coc - Bich Dong National Special Scenic Landscape, Ninh Binh Province to 2030, with a vision to 2050"; The planning of Ninh Binh province for the period 2021-2030, with a vision to 2050, was approved by the Prime Minister on March 4, 2024. The planning to preserve and comprehensively promote the values of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage of Trang An Scenic Landscape Complex towards building a Millennium Heritage City and connecting world heritage cities is an urgent requirement.
Therefore, the planning must ensure the element of honoring the "unique" values of the Heritage Site, while resolving conflicts, inadequacies and difficulties. Therefore, the planning for the Trang An World Heritage Site requires a creative approach, integrating functions in the planning process to transform heritage capacity into new growth drivers. The Director of the Department of Tourism hopes that with enthusiasm and practical experience that has been successfully applied in heritage sites in Vietnam and the world, experts and researchers will contribute and propose specific ideas and solutions associated with practical planning in the locality.
At the discussion session, the speakers focused on discussing key issues such as the transformation of Ninh Binh urban space over time, taking Trang An heritage as the center; Planning, connecting, managing the core zone and buffer zone of the heritage site with neighboring areas; Promoting the role and value of Trang An World Cultural and Natural Heritage in building a Millennium Heritage City and connecting world heritage cities; Zoning and organizing ecological landscape space, the role of irrigation systems, ancient rivers, geology, geomorphology in the heritage site landscape; Digitizing and integrating database systems to serve conservation planning and establishing specific tourism products...
In his closing speech, comrade Pham Quang Ngoc, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee affirmed: As a manager, representing the local government and the co-organizer of the workshop, he highly appreciates the enthusiastic opinions of domestic and foreign experts and scientists. These important bases contribute to realizing the province's goal that Ninh Binh has set, which is to gradually become a heritage ancient capital city. This is a big goal with a long-term vision, so the province always determines the viewpoint of implementing each step carefully, doing it firmly.
In recent times, Ninh Binh has organized many important seminars to supplement scientific arguments to clarify the outstanding and unique advantages to plan long-term strategies for Ninh Binh's development. The province always appreciates the sentiments of domestic and foreign scientists, listens and accepts opinions to realize the proposed aspirations.
Since the 2000s, Ninh Binh has fully recognized the potential value of Hoa Lu - Trang An cultural space to shift development towards green, harmonious and sustainable direction. Over a quarter of a century, especially in the past 10 years, Ninh Binh has always been persistent and steadfast in that direction, so it has achieved certain results. This is the theoretical and practical foundation for Ninh Binh to set a new vision, which is to build Ninh Binh into a Heritage City, a Central Creative City by 2035.
He also informed about the plan to merge two administrative units, Ninh Binh city and Hoa Lu district, into Hoa Lu city, in which the core covers Trang An Heritage and Hoa Lu Ancient Capital, which is considered the nucleus to spread heritage values, the main pillar as the main resource, strong driving force and fundamental advantage for Ninh Binh to be able to upgrade to become a civilized and modern heritage city - a city directly under the Central Government.
With such development orientation, Ninh Binh is gradually building, planning, and strategizing to become a millennium heritage city. This is an unprecedentedly difficult task, with no model in Vietnam, so Ninh Binh is doing, researching, and learning carefully from the experiences of localities at home and abroad. Ninh Binh is determined to not build Ninh Binh city into a compact, concreted city. Ninh Binh's viewpoint during the 30 years of re-establishing the province is to build the city in a diffuse, harmonious direction.
Sharing the development views of the province, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee also hopes that in the coming time, Ninh Binh will continue to receive the attention and contributions of domestic and foreign scientists so that Ninh Binh can fulfill its responsibility on behalf of the people of the whole country to preserve, conserve and promote the invaluable assets of the nation and humanity, which are the special national relic of Hoa Lu Ancient Capital and the outstanding global value of Trang An Scenic Landscape Complex.
Song Nguyen-Minh Hai-Anh Tuan
⇒ International scientific conference "Promoting the role and value of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage of Trang An Scenic Landscape Complex in building a Millennium Heritage City and connecting world heritage cities"
⇒ The historical and cultural space of Hoa Lu capital is the main resource, strong driving force and fundamental advantage for Ninh Binh to be able to upgrade to become a civilized and modern heritage city - a city directly under the Central Government (*)
⇒ General session "Connecting Trang An Heritage Urban Area with UNESCO Heritage Cities"
⇒ Topic "A decade of Trang An World Heritage - Journey of creation and conservation to promote values"
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