Hue urban life. Photo: Bao Chau

Outstanding achievements

Hue becomes a centrally-governed city on the basis of preserving and promoting the heritage values ​​of the ancient capital and Hue's cultural identity with its cultural, heritage, ecological, landscape, environmental friendliness and intelligence characteristics. The goal by 2030 is that Hue will be a typical heritage city of Vietnam; one of the major, unique centers of Southeast Asia in terms of culture, tourism and specialized healthcare; one of the major centers of the country in terms of science and technology, multi-disciplinary, multi-field education and training, high quality; a strong marine economic center of the country; national defense and security are firmly ensured; the material and spiritual life of the people reaches a high level.

In recent times, Hue has focused on exploiting, promoting and developing its strengths and comparative advantages for development. Accordingly, Hue focuses on the restoration and preservation of the system of relics and heritages; organizing many cultural activities and festivals; embellishing the landscape and environment; ensuring security and order... to strongly develop tourism; promoting the role of the specialized medical center of the Central region and the whole country to develop the health economy; developing education and training centers, focusing on Hue University to develop educational services; developing science and technology to apply to production and life to improve social labor productivity and improve people's lives...

Many important infrastructure projects serving economic and social development such as transportation, airports, ports, schools, parks, lighting, hospitals, etc. have been invested, upgraded, and newly built by the locality. Many industrial zones and clusters have been established to attract businesses to invest in production facilities, create jobs, and generate income for tens of thousands of workers. Many historic decisions that have changed the lives of tens of thousands of households in the province, now a city, have been successfully implemented, such as: Bringing thousands of households from hydropower, who have been drifting on lagoons and rivers for generations, always threatened by natural disasters, storms and floods, to settle down in settlements on land; building and repairing houses for thousands of ethnic minority and poor households; Relocating nearly 5,000 households in the Thuong Thanh, Eo Bau and relic protection areas 1 to live in resettlement areas with infrastructure, spacious and clean parks to restore space and landscape to the heritage; relocating hundreds of households living in stilt houses along the citadel and along both banks of the Huong River to embellish and improve the city's landscape. Hue has also built many Tam Giang - Cau Hai overpasses and bridges across rivers, creating favorable conditions for people to travel; building Thao Long dam, Ta Trach lake, Binh Dien and Huong Dien hydropower plants to prevent salinity, keep fresh water in the summer and regulate water in the rainy and flood season; building hundreds of schools, hospitals, and medical stations to serve the people's education, medical examination and treatment... The things that the locality has done for the people in the past decades are difficult to list in the framework of an article.

After 50 years of liberation of the homeland (March 26, 1975 - March 26, 2025), the appearance of Hue has changed dramatically. People's lives have been constantly improved both materially and spiritually. Infrastructure serving production and people's lives from urban to rural areas has been increasingly invested. Geographical distances and access to information between regions have been basically overcome. Up to now, the whole city has only 1.41% of poor households, 386 houses need to be newly built and repaired to ensure 3 solids according to the Government's direction; the situation of food shortages, hunger in the last days, children not having the conditions to go to school because of poverty... like decades ago has been overcome.

Promoting advantages, synchronizing infrastructure

In addition to the many great achievements in recent times, in order for Hue to develop more and more to be worthy of a centrally-run city, becoming an economic center with a spillover effect to provinces and cities in the Central region and the whole country, it is necessary to focus on promoting the development of a number of fields and industries. That is to focus on further promoting the advantages of tourism, attracting more domestic and foreign tourists to Hue to solve jobs and income for the city's people and promote economic development. Currently, Hue tourism is lacking big brands to invest; the number of rooms and beds in hotels from 3 stars and above is still small, there are not many new tourism products, promotion work is still limited; there are no direct flights from abroad to Hue; there are no large tourism complexes like some provinces and cities in the country... to be more attractive and satisfy the increasingly high and diverse needs of tourists.

Hue needs to continue investing in synchronous and modern infrastructure to serve socio-economic development. In recent times, many infrastructure projects have been invested in, but due to social development, the current infrastructure system is gradually showing signs of overload, failing to meet development requirements in the current and future periods. For example, many roads are still narrow and overloaded during rush hours; the belt roads around the city have not been fully invested in; the traffic routes connecting the city center to some districts/towns, to Phu Bai airport, connecting the two banks of Tam Giang - Cau Hai lagoon, to historical sites... are still narrow or have not been invested in and expanded. The infrastructure of key areas such as culture, heritage, health, education - training... is in need of large resources for investment. Infrastructure in communes, wards, towns, industrial zones and clusters needs to continue to be invested in and upgraded to meet development requirements.

The city also needs to continue to improve the investment and business environment, further shorten the time to handle administrative procedures, create the most favorable conditions for people and businesses to reduce costs and time to enter the market, develop production and business. Liberate all production resources of society, focusing on prioritizing the resolution and removal of backlogs and obstacles of public and private projects being implemented in the area that have been stalled. Attract large enterprises to invest to accelerate growth, increase the scale of the economy, increase state budget revenue in the area, improve per capita income, and create jobs for workers. These are the current weaknesses of the city's economy.

Strongly promote start-up, innovation and creativity activities of people and economic sectors. Research methods and orientations for developing suitable occupations to promote creativity and use human resources from other provinces studying at local universities after graduation. Develop cultural industries, medical economics, educational economics and new types of services such as heritage economics, logistics... Propose a pilot mechanism to implement business investment in the form of PPP (public-private partnership) at some relic sites to evaluate, learn from experience, and expand if effective...

Tuan Ha

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