Hoa Lu City (Ninh Binh). Photo: Nguyen Truong
Hoa Lu City is located at the intersection of five national strategic intersections, ensuring connectivity between regions of the country, from Hoa Lu spreading to other regions. This heritage city located on the North-South expressway and the North-South high-speed railway, connecting the Southern and Central provinces with the capital Hanoi; located on the East-West corridor connecting the Northwest region with the Gulf of Tonkin coast . Hoa Lu City is also the starting point connecting the North-South Expressway with the Ninh Binh-Hai Phong Expressway; located in the middle of the three provinces of Ha Nam, Nam Dinh and Ninh Binh when traveling to the farthest areas, convenient for local administration and regional connectivity, connecting urban areas. About 100 km from Hanoi (equivalent to Hai Phong), Hoa Lu has the conditions to build and develop into a dual urban area in the urbanization trend of the near future to supplement and compensate for the fields of ecological logistics, resorts, tourism, cultural industry, entertainment industry associated with the construction of heritage urban areas, ecological urban areas, cultural landscape urban areas.
It can be said that this is a rare prime location, convenient for trade, territorial organization, regional governance, investment attraction, industrialization, modernization, urbanization, inter-regional connectivity and regional governance.
Building Hoa Lu into a specialized center for tourism, cultural industry, entertainment industry, and heritage economy.
Hoa Lu City is a millennium heritage urban area, located entirely within the ancient Hoa Lu Citadel, where the sacred energy of heaven and earth converges, with a position leaning on the mountain, near the river, facing the sea, containing a massive heritage imbued with Vietnamese identity, including the heritage of the position of the ancient capital city.
This place was chosen by Dinh Bo Linh as the capital of Dai Co Viet after defeating and subduing 12 warlords, declaring himself emperor, establishing the first centralized monarchy in the history of the nation, re-establishing the nation with full sovereignty, unifying the country, raising the country's status after a thousand years of Chinese domination, creating the foundation for the capital Thang Long - Hanoi, opening up the Dai Viet civilization.
Hoa Lu City possesses a huge, rich, and unique heritage resource, along with a beautiful natural landscape, creating a distinct potential, unique value, and competitive advantage in the development process. That helps Hoa Lu City rely on heritage resources, cultural resources, natural landscape conditions, favorable for building a cultural landscape heritage urban area, an ecological urban area - an urban model that is both modern and has its own unique identity, in harmony between people and nature, between heritage conservation and socio-economic development, overcoming the current challenge of "concrete" urban development and "compressed" urban areas.
Heritage resources, natural landscapes, and cultural resources are the premise for building Hoa Lu City into a specialized center for tourism, cultural industry, entertainment industry, heritage economy, regional and national event organization and international integration. That is also the foundation of green economy, creative economy for building a millennium heritage city, overcoming the "compressed" and "concretized" urban forms that cause many consequences.
Hoa Lu City is steadily entering a new era with the mindset of a millennium heritage city and a global city. Photo: Minh Duong
Hoa Lu is striving to become a global city.
As a UNESCO-listed millennium heritage city, Hoa Lu city has become a typical model of green, harmonious and sustainable development, based on heritage resources, cultural resources, beautiful natural landscape values, and well-solving the relationship between heritage conservation and green economic development. Recently, UNESCO experts have valued the Trang An Scenic Landscape Complex at 213 billion USD.
Every year, Hoa Lu city welcomes about 1.5 million international visitors, out of a total of 9 million tourists; development criteria are strictly set according to the characteristics of a millennium heritage city. The local identity and the millennium heritage city brand of Hoa Lu have a great influence in the network of heritage cities with UNESCO titles, contributing to increasing the country's soft power in international integration.
As a global city, Hoa Lu city is planned to develop according to civilized, modern, green urban standards, rich in local identity. It is a heritage urban model, a cultural landscape urban model that ensures harmony between artificial architecture and the natural environment, completely different from the "concrete" industrial urban models, not accepting the urban model of annexing heritage, encroaching on the environment. It is an urban area that accepts local identity, the quintessence of Hoa Lu Ancient Capital and the design, architecture, culture and lifestyle of heritage urban areas. It is also an urban area with the presence of famous international brands participating in the fields of trade, services, tourism such as Marriott, Pullman, Wyndham, Big C, Outlet ...
As a global city with a strong Vietnamese identity, the development plan of Hoa Lu city ensures spatial connectivity and development, building symbolic institutions worthy of the ancient capital of Hoa Lu. The transportation network starts from Hoa Lu and spreads to surrounding provinces, with large urban areas basically formed synchronously and modernly, allowing regional connections such as the North-South Expressway, the East-West Corridor, the Ninh Binh-Hai Phong Expressway, and coastal roads.
Shaping the largest-scale spiritual and cultural works in the country, demonstrating the stature of the heritage city of the Ancient Capital, where the sacred soul of mountains and rivers is deposited, such as Kinh Thien Altar, Bai Dinh Pagoda, and religious and belief works.
The iconic cultural institutions of the millennium heritage urban area, the global city such as Dinh Tien Hoang Square, Pham Thi Tran Theater, Trang An Cultural Park, Event Center, monuments of famous people, Van River Bridge, ... along with continued planning, investment and construction of the General Museum, Exhibition Palace, Fair, Contemporary Art Center, Millennium Tower, Duc Thuy Son Lighting Park. These are life-giving works worthy of the Ancient Capital urban area.
Ninh Binh province is preparing an investment plan to restore and recreate Hoa Lu Imperial Citadel, especially the works belonging to the citadel such as the Palace, Castle, Palace, Great Wall... creating a highlight of the millennium heritage city.
Service infrastructure meets the requirements of developing a specialized center for tourism, cultural industry, entertainment, innovation of the region, the country and international integration such as Hoa Lu University, Provincial Political School, Provincial General Hospital, Sports Center, 5-star international standard hotels... and is planning and attracting investment to build a Film Studio, National Football Academy.
Hoa Lu City is steadily entering the new era with the mindset of a millennium heritage city, a global city, a specialized center for tourism, cultural industry, entertainment industry, regional and national innovation and reaching international level. The sacred spirit of the mountains and rivers, the foundation of historical and cultural values of the ancient capital Hoa Lu are promoted with the spirit of the new era - the era of national growth, which will create the position and strength for Hoa Lu City to develop strongly and make breakthroughs.
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