Bao Thang strives to transform heritage into assets.

One of the key breakthroughs outlined in the Resolution of the Bao Thang Commune Party Congress for the 2025-2030 term is to promote investment attraction for the development of industry, handicrafts, trade, services, and tourism.

One of the key breakthroughs outlined in the Resolution of the Bao Thang Commune Party Congress for the 2025-2030 term is to promote investment attraction for the development of industry, handicrafts, trade, services, and tourism. In the field of tourism, the commune's consistent strategic viewpoint is: to preserve, restore, exploit, and effectively promote the values ​​of tangible and intangible cultural heritage, transforming cultural potential into an important endogenous resource, contributing to sustainable socio -economic development and improving the material and spiritual lives of the people.

Bao Thang commune has a rich history and culture, converging many unique heritage values ​​closely linked to the spiritual life, religious practices, labor, production, and patriotic traditions of its ethnic communities. The commune currently boasts a system of important historical and cultural relics such as the Mau Temple, Dong An Temple, the Pho Lu Fort Victory Monument, and many intangible cultural heritage sites reflecting the distinct national identity. According to Mr. Nguyen Van Dai, Deputy Head of the Culture and Social Affairs Department of Bao Thang commune, these heritage sites possess profound historical, cultural, and spiritual value, and represent unique potential and advantages for developing cultural tourism, spiritual tourism, and experiential tourism.

However, exploiting and promoting the value of heritage without proper guidance can easily lead to commercialization, erosion of identity, and disruption of traditional cultural spaces. Recognizing this issue, Bao Thang commune has consistently maintained the principle of preservation alongside promotion; safeguarding and promoting cultural heritage, ensuring the originality, solemnity, and sacredness of relics, must be under the unified management of the State, promoting the leading role of the people; resolutely avoiding the trend of commercialization and distortion in religious activities and festivals; closely linking preservation with development, and connecting the preservation of traditional values ​​with the requirements of socio-economic development, building new rural areas, and improving the lives of the people. One of the key highlights in the commune's development orientation is considering cultural heritage as a "living resource," which must be preserved in community life, linked to livelihoods, and with the active participation of the people.

Based on the existing heritage system, the commune Party Committee has oriented the development of spiritual tourism, focusing on the cluster of relics including Mau Temple, Dong An Temple, and the Pho Lu Fort Victory site. Leveraging its advantage as a connecting point between Mau Temple, Thuong Temple, Cam Temple, and Quan Temple (Lao Cai ward) via Bao Thang commune and the cluster of relics including Dong An Temple, Mau Temple, and Pho Lu Fort, continuing with Hai Co Temple, Bao Ha Temple, Co Tan An Temple (Bao Ha commune) to Dong Cuong Temple (Dong Cuong commune), Bao Thang has formed spiritual tourism routes and destinations linked with cultural and experiential tourism, harmoniously combining religious activities, sightseeing, and historical education .

To capitalize on this advantage, the commune is gradually improving its tourism infrastructure; enhancing the quality of festival organization, strictly managing service activities, and building an image of a civilized, friendly, and safe destination. Simultaneously, the protection, restoration, preservation, and promotion of the value of historical, cultural, and religious relics are being implemented comprehensively. Relics such as the Mother Goddess Temple, the Dong An Temple, and the Pho Lu Fort Victory site are not only preserved in terms of architecture and landscape, but also prioritized in promoting the educational value of historical traditions, patriotism, and national pride, especially for the younger generation. Schools in the area have designed extracurricular programs and local education content related to these relics, contributing to the education of patriotic traditions and helping students better understand their locality.

Regarding intangible cultural heritage, the commune pays special attention to preserving and promoting the traditional brocade weaving craft of the Dao ethnic group. Dao women here do not use ready-made clothing, because for them, weaving, sewing, and embroidery demonstrate the diligence and skill of women. Moreover, it preserves traditional beauty. The Dao people's hand-weaving craft involves many steps, requiring meticulousness, patience, and dexterity from the women's hands. Men in the family adjust and repair the looms. Beyond preserving traditional weaving techniques, the locality also focuses on passing on the craft to the younger generation, supporting the development of handicraft products with high cultural and aesthetic value, meeting consumer and tourism needs. From there, cultural experience points are gradually being formed, linking visits, learning, and experiences with product consumption, opening up a sustainable economic development direction for the people.

The key factor in the process of "transforming heritage into assets" in Bao Thang is promoting the leading role of the local community. The people are both beneficiaries and directly involved in protecting, preserving, and promoting the value of the heritage; participating in tourism services, introducing traditional products, local cuisine, and culture. Through this, heritage truly becomes a resource for creating jobs, increasing income, and improving the lives of the people.

Along with economic development, the work of disseminating information and educating cadres, Party members, and the people about the position, role, and value of cultural heritage is identified as a regular and long-term task, linked to building cultural life at the grassroots level and developing the people of Bao Thang comprehensively.

This result is significantly contributed by the trade and service sector, in which tourism and traditional cultural products are gradually asserting their role and position.

With synchronized directions and solutions, Bao Thang commune is gradually realizing its goal of transforming cultural heritage into an important endogenous resource, contributing to the promotion of tourism development and socio-economic development in a sustainable manner, rich in cultural identity. This approach is suitable to the local conditions and reflects the strategic vision of the commune's Party Committee in preserving and promoting the value of heritage for long-term, harmonious development between economy, culture, and society in the new era.

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