This conference is held in Hue city with tourism potential and green urban area.

According to the Organizing Committee, the purpose of holding the 14th Conference is to maintain the cooperation mechanism between localities that are members of the East Asia Regional and Local Government Conference, enhance friendship and mutual trust between member local governments, seek opportunities for exchange and cooperation in many fields, and contribute to promoting peace and common prosperity in the region.

At the same time, create a forum to discuss realities and challenges; share solutions to address common issues related to the two key areas of the 14th Conference: Sustainable Green Tourism and Smart Cities. Expand cooperation between member localities and new localities participating in the conference mechanism, most notably the signing of the Friendship Cooperation Agreement between Hue City and Nara Prefecture (Japan).

This conference focused on discussing difficulties and challenges; sharing experiences and development solutions on two main topics: "Developing green and sustainable tourism" and "Developing smart cities".

In particular, the thematic session “Developing green and sustainable tourism” with two main topics: Health care tourism - unlocking potential, creating trends and Plastic reduction tourism contributing to realizing the Net Zero goal. This thematic session will focus on exchanging experiences and solutions between agencies, businesses and experts on green tourism, especially health care tourism and plastic reduction; developing sustainable tourism models, focusing on balanced development between economy and environmental protection; proposing policies to promote initiatives to minimize the impact of the tourism industry on the environment, towards the Net Zero goal.

In the conference's activities, there is a space for exhibition, promotion of investment and trade.

Thematic session “Developing smart cities” with the theme: Smart management based on digital data, focuses on sharing experiences, difficulties, introducing appropriate management and technology solutions in the fields of smart cities such as smart transportation, smart healthcare, smart education, urban order management problems via cameras, planning problems with models, complete data digitization solutions, etc.

The East Asia Regional and Local Government Conference is an annual multilateral forum for local governments in the East Asia region. The conference is a cooperation mechanism initiated by Nara Prefecture (Japan) in 2010, on the occasion of the 1,300th anniversary of the ancient capital of Nara (also known as Heijo-kyo), with the participation of local governments from Japan, China, Korea, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia.

Since then, the conference has been held annually and has gone through 13 conferences; with the aim of creating a forum for representatives of local member governments to share development experiences, enhance exchanges, connect friendships, and contribute to peace and development in the East Asia region. Currently, 76 localities from 7 countries participate in the Conference mechanism, in which Nara Prefecture (Japan) plays the role of the permanent Secretariat of the forum.

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