Promoting regional identity

Da Nang City is urgently completing the Project to preserve and promote the value of the world cultural heritage of the ancient town of Hoi An. Photo: SA KHE

Preserving the heritage land

When mentioning the Central Dynamic Region, many people will immediately imagine an area possessing a rich and unique cultural heritage system.

Currently, there are 3 world cultural heritages (Vietnam has 7 world cultural heritages) along with many intangible cultural heritages, world documentary heritages, and documentary heritages of the Asia- Pacific region.

This is also an area with a dense distribution of Champa cultural relics, especially in Hue city, Da Nang city and Gia Lai province.

The system of relics and heritages in the Central Dynamic Region, although being preserved quite effectively, still contains many risks of being damaged by social impacts and climate change, so a systematic planning strategy is needed for sustainable development of the region in the future.

When mentioning the Central Dynamic Region, many people will immediately imagine an area possessing a rich and unique cultural heritage system.

This is also an area with a dense distribution of Champa cultural relics, especially in Hue city, Da Nang city and Gia Lai province.

Hue and Da Nang are two localities with strengths in heritage tourism. In the photo: The two localities are coordinating to exploit the Hai Van Quan relic site. Photo: XUAN SON

The Hue city planning approved by the Government determines that by 2030, Hue will be a typical heritage city of Vietnam.

Among the development breakthroughs is identifying and developing a heritage urban system combined with modern, smart urban areas on the basis of preserving and promoting heritage values.

Besides, innovating and improving the efficiency of preserving the heritage of the ancient capital of Hue, effectively transforming cultural resources and natural history into growth drivers, developing cultural industries...

Regarding Da Nang city, Ms. Nguyen Thi Anh Thi, Vice Chairwoman of the City People's Committee informed that over the past 2 years, Da Nang has been actively implementing the planning of the National Special Scenic Landscape of Ngu Hanh Son according to the approval decision of the Prime Minister.

In addition, the Project to preserve and promote the value of the world cultural heritage of Hoi An Ancient Town and the Project to plan the special national relic of My Son Temple Complex are being urgently built and completed to promote these two world cultural heritages.

With the majestic Truong Son mountain range running along the west, the Central Dynamic Region is also an area with a rich cultural identity with dozens of ethnic groups living together.

Ms. Tran Thi Thanh Tam, Director of the Department of Finance of Da Nang, said that among the solutions to promote the socio-economic development of Da Nang city in the coming period, there is the determination to invest in development and improve the lives of people, especially ethnic minorities and mountainous areas.

Focus on investing in education, ensuring every child has the opportunity to study with increasingly improved quality of education.

Along with that is increasing investment resources for preserving cultural values, developing culture, ensuring unity in cultural diversity.

Biodiversity enrichment

As the location of most of the Central Truong Son ecosystem - which is considered one of the 200 globally important ecological regions, the Central Dynamic Region needs a strategy to sustainably exploit this ecosystem to live in harmony with nature.

Cu Lao Cham has the potential to develop into a high-class eco-tourism destination of Da Nang city. Photo: QUOC TUAN — Cu Lao Cham - Hoi An is considered a typical model of marine conservation in the world biosphere reserve in Vietnam. Photo: QUOC TUAN

With the support and strong support of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), provinces and cities in the Central Dynamic Region have achieved many positive results in increasing forest cover, the appearance of rare species after many years of absence, as well as improving the livelihoods of people living on the Central Truong Son range.

Remarkably, the region's biodiversity is interconnected, extending from source to sea.

Typical are two world biosphere reserves recognized by UNESCO, including: Cu Lao Cham - Hoi An World Biosphere Reserve (Da Nang city) and Kon Ha Nung World Biosphere Reserve (Gia Lai).

Da Nang city alone also recorded many "bright spots" in biodiversity conservation.

The population of red-shanked douc langurs on Son Tra peninsula has grown from only a few dozen individuals 20 years ago to thousands of individuals today.

Fertile forests in the western region of Da Nang. Photo: ALANG NGUOC

Or in Cu Lao Cham, the process of changing community awareness in handling marine resources has helped this place become a model in marine conservation on the international level.

Mr. Van Ngoc Thinh, General Director of WWF Vietnam, commented that the significant decrease in flood flow rate in the Thu Bon River basin in recent years is also a positive sign in the work of forest protection and biodiversity conservation in the locality.

Notably, according to the planning orientation of biodiversity conservation facilities for the period 2021 - 2030, with a vision to 2050 approved by the Prime Minister at the end of 2024, Da Nang has 2 facilities including: Safari Nam Hoi An and Cu Lao Cham turtle conservation facility.

These two facilities, along with two others planned in Gia Lai province, will be centers for raising and cultivating rare and endangered species as well as rescuing wildlife for the entire region, contributing to the conservation and multiplication of biodiversity for the Central Dynamic Region.

Source: https://baodanang.vn/phat-huy-ban-sac-vung-3306628.html