Activities of Hue Heritage Conservation Fund
Hue City has 6 cultural heritages recognized by UNESCO as World Heritage and Regional Heritage, including: Hue Monuments Complex (recognized in 1993), Vietnamese Royal Music - Nguyen Dynasty Royal Court Music (2003), Nguyen Dynasty Woodblocks (2009), Nguyen Dynasty Royal Records (2014), Poetry and Literature on Hue Royal Architecture (2016) and Reliefs on the Nine Urns (2024).
In recent years, the activities of preserving and promoting the values of world heritages in Hue have achieved many successes, and have been evaluated by UNESCO as "exemplary" and recommended for localities and places that are managing and preserving other world heritages in Vietnam to refer to and learn from.
Hue has used many resources from investment by the Central and local governments; from funding from foreign governments and non-governmental organizations (NGOs); contributions and support from domestic and foreign organizations and individuals... to restore and preserve many cultural heritages.
In particular, on October 20, 2022, the Prime Minister signed Decree No. 84/2022/ND-CP on the establishment and promulgation of the Regulations on the operation of the Hue Heritage Conservation Fund. Accordingly, the Hue Heritage Conservation Fund is a national fund established by the Government and assigned to the People's Committee of Thua Thien Hue province (now Hue city) for direct management. The purpose is to mobilize resources to invest in the restoration, conservation, and development of Hue heritage values and to invest in projects and items that have not been allocated funds from the state budget or have not been allocated enough funds.
The Fund's financial resources are support from the State budget of provinces and centrally-run cities, excluding the budget of Thua Thien Hue province; contributions, aid and sponsorship from domestic and foreign organizations and individuals, including voluntary or purpose-based sponsorship; interest from deposit accounts; annual fund balance and other legal sources.
The Hue Heritage Conservation Fund operates as a public service unit under the People's Committee of Thua Thien Hue province; it operates not for profit. The Fund's Management Board consists of 5 members, including representatives of the People's Committee of Thua Thien Hue province, leaders of the Department of Finance, the Department of Planning and Investment, the Department of Culture and Sports of Thua Thien Hue province and the Hue Monuments Conservation Center.
The Hue Heritage Conservation Fund is a special mechanism dedicated to Hue heritage. This mechanism helps Hue to be more proactive in restoring and preserving heritage, especially in handling emergency situations for endangered relics.
After more than 2 years of establishment and operation, the Hue Heritage Conservation Fund has received contributions of up to 7,664 billion VND from many domestic and foreign organizations and individuals.
Need suitable management unit
Projects to restore, preserve and promote the value of world cultural heritages in Hue have received favorable funding and support from foreign governments and organizations, such as the Japan Foundation, Rhône-Poulenc, America Express, the British Embassy in Vietnam, and the UNESCO Office in Bangkok...
Representatives of these organizations shared that they often find it easier to contribute financially to cultural heritage conservation projects, restoration of relics, etc. managed and implemented by specialized agencies, because the legal procedures are simpler.
The world heritage sites in Hue are managed by the Hue Monuments Conservation Center - a provincial-level professional agency, not a state management agency in the cultural field. However, this agency has full authority and functions in the field of cultural heritage management and conservation, making it convenient for partners to cooperate and sponsor.
At the meeting between Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and the Standing Committee of Quang Nam Provincial Party Committee on February 8, 2025, the People's Committee of Quang Nam province proposed that the Prime Minister consider and approve the Projects on preserving and promoting the values of the World Cultural Heritage of Hoi An Ancient Town until 2030, with a vision to 2035; the Project on socializing the management and exploitation of My Son Temple Complex; the Project on establishing the Quang Nam Heritage Conservation Fund and the mechanism for using fees for visiting relics in the province.
In particular, Quang Nam focuses on two issues: socializing activities to protect and promote the value of cultural heritage in My Son Temple Complex and establishing the Quang Nam Heritage Conservation Fund (as the Government has allowed to be established in Hue), in order to mobilize "non-state" resources to support the conservation and promotion of the value of world cultural heritages in Quang Nam province.
Currently, Quang Nam’s world heritage sites are managed by local authorities in Hoi An and Duy Xuyen, while the Quang Nam Monuments Conservation Center is a unit under the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism. Therefore, the management, conservation, restoration and promotion of the values of these heritage sites are fragmented, causing obstacles in mobilizing “non-state” and socialized resources.
Perhaps it is time for Quang Nam to need a new mechanism for this issue, from local transformation to support from the Government and central authorities.
Source: https://baoquangnam.vn/co-che-thuan-loi-bao-ton-di-san-3152163.html
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