Trang An heritage is a unique landscape, attracting tourists to Ninh Binh. Photo: Nguyen Truong
The historical, cultural values and outstanding qualities of the people of the sacred land of Hoa Lu (Ninh Binh) have always been preserved, spread, expanded and constantly transformed, becoming characteristic values, driving forces and competitive advantages for Ninh Binh province to rise strongly, towards a global city on the foundation of a Millennium Heritage City with strong Vietnamese identity.
The city is located at the "5-way intersection" of strategic intersections.
Hoa Lu City is located at the intersection of five national strategic crossroads in the southern Red River Delta, ensuring trade between regions of the country.
Hoa Lu connects with major cities, regions, especially the northern provinces. This heritage city is located on the North-South expressway and the North-South high-speed railway, connecting the southern and central provinces with the capital Hanoi; and on the East-West corridor connecting the northwest region with the Gulf of Tonkin coast.
Hoa Lu is about 100 km from Hanoi Capital (equivalent to the distance between Hai Phong and Hanoi). Hoa Lu has the conditions to build and develop into a dual urban area in the trend of rapid urbanization 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, and 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, and inter-regional connectivity.
Heritage and cultural values create the unique identity of Hoa Lu city.
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 is located in a prime location for development and breakthrough. Photo: Nguyen Truong
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 situation of urban development in the form of "concrete" and "compressed" urban areas that are becoming common challenges today.
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 "concrete" urban forms that cause many consequences.
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; urban development criteria are strictly regulated 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 global heritage city network with UNESCO title, contributing to increasing the soft power of the country in international integration.
As a global city, Hoa Lu city is planned to develop according to the standards of a civilized, modern, green urban area rich in local identity. It is a heritage urban model, a cultural landscape urban area that ensures harmony between artificial architecture and the natural environment, between modernity and the preservation of traditional values, completely different from the "concrete" industrial urban models.
Hoa Lu is contrary to urbanization models that annex heritage, harm the environment, and create a development gap between urban and rural areas. This is an urban model that embraces local identity and the quintessence of the ancient capital Hoa Lu.
The architecture, culture and lifestyle of the residents reflect the urban style of a millennium heritage and creative city.
As a global city, Hoa Lu city has become a space for sharing visions and universal values of nations and peoples, for a better world.
The initiatives of Hoa Lu city have always been recognized and widely disseminated by UNESCO, especially in solving the relationship between heritage conservation and tourism development, integrating the values of cultural heritage and natural heritage, solving the livelihoods of local communities based on heritage, preserving heritage, and expanding the network of heritage cities with UNESCO titles.
Up to now, Hoa Lu city is promoting UNESCO's vision and initiatives on building a philosophy of nurturing nature, on a model of cultural landscape heritage urban areas, on outdoor innovation, on developing technology to simulate nature, on developing creative economic sectors as an economic foundation for heritage urban areas and creative cities.
As a global city with a strong Vietnamese identity, the development plan of Hoa Lu city ensures spatial connectivity, 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.
Hoa Lu also shaped the largest-scale spiritual and cultural works in the country, demonstrating the stature of the ancient capital's heritage city, where the sacred soul of mountains and rivers is deposited, such as Kinh Thien Altar, Bai Dinh Pagoda, and religious and belief works.
The symbolic 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... 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 lifetime works worthy of the heritage urban area of the Ancient Capital.
Hoa Lu City is a land with a long tradition and unique characteristics that no other region has. Photo: Pham Dong
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.
In addition, the 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, International Football Academy, International Innovation Center.
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.
Crystallized from the sacred spirit of the mountains and rivers, the foundation of historical and cultural values of the ancient capital Hoa Lu is 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 a breakthrough.
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