(Fatherland) - Ha Long City (Quang Ninh) is striving to complete the roadmap to become a member of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN) by 2027, 2 years ahead of the plan of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
Ha Long is currently a unique city "one of a kind" in terms of landscape, terrain and tourism resources; always an attractive destination for tourists, especially foreign tourists. This place is attractive because of Ha Long Bay, which has been honored by UNESCO three times as a World Natural Heritage, one of the New Seven Natural Wonders of the World and an International Geological Heritage.
Not only endowed with majestic beauty by nature, Ha Long City also has a rich and unique cultural and historical tourism resource with 96 historical - cultural - scenic relics, 13 traditional and modern festivals and the cultural diversity of ethnic minorities. This place has become the destination of national and international events such as: SEA Games 31, Clipper Race 2023-2024 season, Abu Robocon 2024, Asian Police Taekwondo Open 2024 ...
According to Professor, Dr. Le Hong Ly, Chairman of the Vietnam Folklore Arts Association, Ha Long City is a highlight in the cultural flow of Quang Ninh with famous beaches, island clusters, beautiful bays along with the cultural characteristics of ethnic minorities, island cultural areas, or festivals associated with the spiritual culture of Truc Lam Buddhism. This place is also the cultural capital of the coal mining region, containing many historical vestiges of the once glorious mining industry of Vietnam. These cultural features need to be shaped for Ha Long culture to become a truly widespread connection point of great stature in many different fields. It is also a cultural specialty of Ha Long City from the perspective of industrial culture.
Professor Le Hong Ly also emphasized that the trend of cultural industry and creative city is a direction of many cities in the world. Ha Long City has advantages in cultural industry and creative industry with available potential and great space to organize new cultural events, the place of formation and also a great place for creative activities of installation art. This is an important factor to build Ha Long City to become a member of UCCN with the goal of being a driving force to enhance livelihoods and develop the economy and society in a sustainable direction.
Being recognized as a creative city is not only a title but also an opportunity for the government, creative community and local people to discover the city's strengths; an opportunity for Ha Long to continue planning and developing the city in a sustainable manner, raising awareness of the importance of creativity, diversity of cultural expressions and making good use of UNESCO's initiatives on culture, education and science.
According to Mr. Nguyen Tuan Minh, Permanent Vice Chairman of Ha Long City People's Committee, the locality has worked with the Department of International Cooperation (chair), in coordination with the Vietnam National Institute of Culture and Arts of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism on building a dossier for Ha Long City to join UCCN. In the 7 main creative fields of UNSECO that cities can register to participate, Ha Long has built a plan focusing on 2 fields: cuisine and media arts. In particular, the immediate focus is on building a creative city in the culinary field to build a dossier to request UNESCO recognition.
From the above spirit, Ha Long City is establishing a working group to build a dossier with the participation of experts and researchers in various fields. The dossier building will comply with UNESCO's regulations and guidelines and refer to documents from cities in the UCCN with similar field selection. At the same time, organize surveys, collect data and documents in related fields such as history, culture, architecture, environmental resources, etc.; invite domestic and foreign experts to build assessment reports on the selected fields and advise on the construction of the dossier; organize study groups to learn from the experiences of 1 to 2 localities with certain achievements in the fields of cuisine and media arts.
At the same time, Ha Long will organize seminars, thematic workshops, international workshops to collect materials for building the dossier, consult on historical, cultural, economic issues, etc., and contribute opinions from experts and scientists on building a creative city. In order to enhance promotion, the city will set up a website to post content related to building the "Ha Long - Creative City" dossier, including: video clips, images, articles, etc. From there, fully communicate and update documents and tasks on the city's policies and guidelines in an effort to meet the nomination dossier, highlighting the message, policies and information about the future creative city of Ha Long. Organize a logo design contest or invite a design unit to identify "Ha Long - Creative City" for use in the process of building the dossier and in the future.
Ha Long City will also build infrastructure to serve the purpose of creating, forming and disseminating activities, products and services in the fields of cuisine and media arts; organize programs to promote culture and creativity, as well as arts education; build complementary educational institutions, study programs, vocational training, and tourism accommodation programs associated with experiences in the fields of cuisine and media arts.
"The nomination dossier for participation in UCCN of Ha Long City must be based on scientific basis, synthesizing the policies of the province and city, outstanding values, achieved results and the city's goals in terms of economy, culture, society, science, technology, art, education... in accordance with UNESCO's guidelines; at the same time, harmoniously combining traditional and modern professions, thereby highlighting the identity and characteristics of Vietnam in general and Ha Long City in particular", Mr. Nguyen Tuan Minh emphasized.
Source: https://toquoc.vn/ha-long-xac-lap-loi-the-gia-nhap-thanh-pho-sang-tao-20250126091937674.htm
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