Workshop on thematic session Common awareness of practical solutions to the relationship between restoration and conservation of cultural heritage and socio-economic development Viewed from regional and local governance

The central report presented by Comrade Tong Quang Thin, Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Permanent Vice Chairman of the Ninh Binh Provincial People's Committee, stated: From the perspective of regional and local governance, Ninh Binh province is gradually implementing a number of solutions to harmonize the relationship between restoration, conservation of cultural heritage and socio -economic development, with initial results.

The first thematic session: General awareness of resolving the relationship between cultural heritage restoration and conservation and socio-economic development. Viewed from regional and local governance. — Comrade Tong Quang Thin, Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Permanent Vice Chairman of Ninh Binh Provincial People's Committee presented the Central Report.

The socio-economic development orientation of Ninh Binh province in the coming time is determined as "Rapid and sustainable development, economic development goes hand in hand with equity and social progress, on the basis of maximizing the outstanding potential, unique values and unique advantages of the locality, the core is to preserve and promote the value of cultural-historical heritage, natural landscapes and fine traditions of the people, the land of Hoa Lu ancient capital as resources and driving force for development", aiming to build Ninh Binh province into a centrally-run city with the criteria of a millennium heritage urban area.

In particular, the industrial sector is identified as the driving force and foundation for rapid and sustainable socio-economic development, creating a foundation for effective exploitation and protection of the cultural and historical values of Trang An World Cultural and Natural Heritage, promoting tourism development to become a spearhead economic sector, striving to become a major tourism center of the country and the region. Accordingly, the three aspirations and general goals of Ninh Binh province by 2030, with a vision to 2050, are identified as follows: to be one of the fairly developed provinces, with comprehensive, rapid and sustainable development in the Red River Delta; to be one of the national and international tourism centers; to be a livable, safe and friendly land.

To achieve that goal, Ninh Binh has proposed and implemented a number of solutions such as: Clearly identifying the problem and innovating the way of thinking about restoring and preserving cultural heritage associated with socio-economic development. Regularly innovating the methods and methods of propaganda, promotion, promotion and attracting investors; Promoting the construction of heritage urban areas associated with urban 4.0, so that Ninh Binh is one of the gateways, a connecting center with the world; creating an ideal living environment for traders and their families from all over the world; sustainable development with the support of technology associated with circular economy; allowing the piloting of modern urban government models; Building an environment to test new, creative ideas, associated with new trends such as: block chain technology, knowledge economy, digital economy, and circular economy; Building a cultural industry development strategy with a focus, key points, and roadmap towards professionalism and modernity, promoting local advantages, in accordance with the basic laws of the market economy; placed in the overall socio-economic development, ensuring unity and synchronization between sectors, stages of creation, production, distribution, and popularization of consumption.

At the same time, developing cultural industry is closely linked to promoting the image of Ninh Binh land and people, contributing to protecting and promoting national cultural identity in the process of international exchange, integration and cooperation. With the viewpoint of choosing jobs and making points, it is necessary to create a number of key cultural industrial products to identify, develop, contribute to growth and increase local budget revenue.

From the perspective of overall resource mobilization, not only in terms of financial resources, Ninh Binh province promotes innovation in methods of mobilizing, allocating and effectively using resources, focusing on: Strengthening the sustainability of resources for the State budget in terms of both scale and structure through continuing to implement solutions to restructure the economy in conjunction with transforming the growth model and comprehensive solutions on taxes and fees according to regulations; Strengthening the efficiency of mobilizing, allocating and using public financial resources; ensuring "public investment leads investment", "public investment attracts social investment", directing public resources to addresses where the private sector cannot participate or at the same time contributing to the formation of platforms to "stimulate" the participation of the private sector through appropriate motivation and support mechanisms; allocate in the direction of applying the principle of competition, enhancing concentration, focusing on areas that create economic values associated with employment and budget revenue of the province; Promote solutions to improve the investment and business environment, unlock resources and promote the development of the private economic sector, in the direction of attracting investment and developing the local socio-economy, thereby contributing to promoting economic growth, solving employment, increasing income for people and creating more room for the State budget revenue sector.

The speech of Associate Professor, Dr. Dang Van Bai, Vice Chairman of the National Cultural Heritage Council with the content "Cultural heritage - "Capital" for socio-economic development stated the viewpoint: The Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress has clearly defined the orientation for national development in the period of 2021-2030 as continuing to strongly innovate thinking, building and synchronously perfecting institutions for sustainable development in economics, politics, culture, society and environment, promptly removing difficulties and obstacles, arousing all potentials and resources, creating new momentum for the rapid and sustainable development of the country. Following the main spirit of those major orientations, the Culture, Sports and Tourism sector must also innovate thinking, awareness and practical actions towards the sustainable preservation of cultural heritage, creating new momentum to serve the development goals of the country, including the goal of building a comprehensively developed Vietnamese culture and people. Therefore, sustainably preserving cultural heritage industrialization, creating new momentum to serve the country's development goals.

Associate Professor, Dr. Pham Hong Tung, Hanoi National University, presented a paper on "On the key issue in preserving and promoting the value of cultural heritage for community happiness: Determining the owner of the heritage". In which, he emphasized the preservation and promotion of heritage values for the cultural welfare of the people in accordance with President Ho Chi Minh's thoughts on the right and capacity to enjoy culture and cultural welfare.

Prof. Dr. Dinh Xuan Dung, Central Council for Literature and Art Theory and Criticism, in his presentation on "Relationship between subjects in the process of restoring, preserving and promoting the value of cultural heritage from regional and local practices" stated: The big lesson here is that restoring and preserving cultural heritage associated with a goal of contributing to socio-economic development is correct and necessary, but that is not the only goal. There are cultural and historical heritages that, when restored, preserved and promoted, cannot generate immediate economic profits, but the greatest "gain" is "human capital" - love for the country and people, gratitude and pride in tradition, confidence to rise up, solidarity, love...

Prof. Dr. Tran Tri Doi, Hanoi National University, presented a discussion on "Assumptions of corresponding place names between Thang Long capital and Hoa Lu ancient capital: The issue of restoration and exploitation of values to serve tourism activities" and presented his thoughts on how to restore the current status of relics related to place names in Hoa Lu ancient capital as well as proposed ways to exploit the traditional cultural values of those places, serving tourism activities of Ninh Binh province.

The content of the presentation "The value of Hoa Lu citadel wall heritage and recommendations" presented by Associate Professor, Dr. Tong Trung Tin, President of the Vietnam Archaeological Association, assessed the Hoa Lu ancient capital relic as a large and special capital, with rich and diverse architectural vestiges; the most unique relics identified are the citadel walls. Therefore, the Vietnam Archaeological Association recommends gradually conducting a comprehensive study of the entire structure of the citadel walls of Hoa Lu ancient capital, gradually restoring the entire appearance of Hoa Lu ancient capital in many forms, turning the entire Hoa Lu capital into a majestic capital of the nation at the beginning of the period of national independence into a typical historical-cultural park of Vietnam in the 10th and early 11th centuries.

Prof. Dr. Le Hong Ly, Vietnam Folklore Association, presented the content of "Museum of folk culture in the community - the right direction in restoring, preserving and promoting the values of intangible cultural heritage" and emphasized solutions to exploit this potential so that the heritage can both exist vividly and attract tourists so that the heritage becomes vivid and exists long-term with the people's lives, contributing to the economic, cultural and social development of Ninh Binh province in particular, and Vietnam in general, worthy of what our ancestors have worked hard to build.

Mr. Peng Shituan, Cultural Counselor of the Chinese Embassy in Vietnam, presented the content of the experience drawn from the area with Chinese cultural heritage, giving some suggestions for Ninh Binh province in protecting cultural heritage associated with tourism development. Through listening to the presentations, it can be seen that Vietnam has conducted in-depth research on cultural heritage, which is an experience to raise awareness of heritage conservation and protection. In addition, it is necessary to pay attention to the legal basis for renovating and restoring heritage; in tourism development, it is necessary to pay attention to protecting heritage; applying science and technology to enhance digitalization of heritage management activities...

Prof. Dr. People's Teacher Nguyen Quang Ngoc, Vice President of the Vietnam Historical Science Association, presented the content of "Heritage Road: from Hoa Lu Capital in the 10th century to Hoa Lu Millennium Heritage City in the 21st century" and gave the identification of Hoa Lu Capital in the 10th century; Hoa Lu Millennium Heritage City in the early 21st century to affirm the process of moving towards a leading civilized and modern Millennium Heritage City of the country and of international stature, as well as the process of gradually perfecting the criteria for Ninh Binh to become a centrally-run city.

Speaking at the workshop, Dr. Phung Quoc Hien, former member of the Party Central Committee, former Vice Chairman of the National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, affirmed the good points of Ninh Binh as a model in regional and local governance, Ninh Binh today is a museum of nature, history, culture and society. Therefore, he proposed 4 issues that need attention: cultural heritages need to be planned comprehensively; resources of the State, People and enterprises must be arranged, and the motto "State and People work together" must be well implemented; regional governance must be done well, and people must be mobilized; the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism needs to complete and amend the Law on Cultural Heritage to suit reality.

Workshop First thematic session General awareness on resolving the relationship between restoration and conservation of cultural heritage and socio-economic development Viewed from regional and local governance — Associate Professor, Dr., Architect Nguyen Hong Thuc, Hanoi National University, presented at the Workshop.

The workshop heard Associate Professor, Dr., Architect Nguyen Hong Thuc, Hanoi National University, present a presentation on "The continuing value of the millennium heritage ecosystem in contemporary development" with the following issues: Heritage can be brought into society through innovative operating models for sustainable urban development. World heritage value model through natural ecosystem services and heritage ecosystem services. Culture-history is the driving force of heritage economy in developing heritage areas and connecting heritage spaces. From there, it is necessary to build a framework to assess the potential for developing millennium heritage urban areas; determine the core structure of millennium heritage urban areas.

Associate Professor, Dr. Vu Hung Cuong, Director of the Institute of Social Science Information, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, presented a discussion on "Restoring and preserving cultural heritage associated with tourism development in Vietnam today" and stated the point of view: Restoring and preserving cultural heritage in Vietnam is of great significance, contributing to protecting, preserving and transmitting cultural values of the past, while also supplementing tourism resources and increasing contributions to local and national budgets.

In the afternoon, the Workshop continued with presentations and discussions at thematic sessions.

Ninh Binh Newspaper will continue to update the content of the Workshop.

Phan Hieu-Hong Van-Minh Quang

⇒ International scientific conference "Resolving the relationship between restoration, conservation of cultural heritage and socio-economic development: View from regional and local governance"

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