Concentrate all resources to successfully build Nghia Lo town into a cultural and tourist town.

Yen Bai - Initial results after more than 2 years of implementing the Project "Building Nghia Lo town into a cultural and tourist town in the period of 2021 - 2025" have contributed to improving the material and spiritual life of the people; preserving, maintaining and promoting the fine traditions and cultural identities of ethnic minorities, protecting the ecological environment associated with promoting tourism development.

Reporter (PV) of Yen Bai Newspaper talked with comrade Luong Manh Ha - Vice Chairman of Nghia Lo Town People's Committee.

Reporter: In recent times, Nghia Lo town has deployed many tasks and solutions to implement the Project "Building Nghia Lo town into a cultural and tourist town in the period of 2021-2025". Could you please tell us about the results that the town has achieved in the process of implementing the Project up to this point?

Comrade Luong Manh Ha : The implementation of the Project "Building Nghia Lo town into a cultural and tourist town in the period of 2021 - 2025" has initially contributed to improving the material and spiritual life of the people; preserving, maintaining and promoting the fine traditions and cultural identities of ethnic minorities, protecting the ecological environment associated with promoting tourism development.

Comrade Luong Manh Ha - Vice Chairman of Nghia Lo Town People's Committee.

In particular, the implementation of the Project when "Thai Xoe Art" was recognized by UNESCO as a representative intangible cultural heritage of humanity has created a great motivation for the Party Committee, government and people to join hands with the common goal of building Nghia Lo town into a cultural and tourist town and the town basically meeting the criteria of a type III urban area by 2025 associated with the urban development program and building 6 communes into wards. Many cultural, artistic and sports activities have been strongly and actively implemented, attracting a large number of people and tourists to participate such as: The first "Sparkling Circle Xoe" contest of Nghia Lo town, 11-player men's football tournament and folk dance competitions, opening Khap Thai classes to teach the young generation...

After 2 years of focusing on strongly implementing tasks and solutions for tourism development, it has contributed to the recovery of tourism development after the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, gradually building a tourist destination in the Muong Lo cultural region; identifying outstanding, diverse and attractive tourism products, meeting the needs of domestic and foreign tourists, focusing on cultural tourism, community tourism, eco-tourism - resort tourism and forming a new type of tourism - MICE tourism. With the achieved results, it has initially contributed to affirming the position of the western tourism center of the province, as a tourism connection point between districts, towns and cities in the province and between Yen Bai province and other provinces in the country.

Reporter : It is known that in the process of implementing the Project, the town has set out many specific and detailed tasks for each sector, agency, unit and individual responsible for implementation. So, can you elaborate on the tasks set out?

Comrade Luong Manh Ha: To carry out the tasks of building Nghia Lo town into a cultural and tourist town, the People's Committee of the town issued Plan No. 199 dated November 24, 2021 on implementing the Project "Building Nghia Lo town into a cultural and tourist town for the period 2021-2025"; Plan No. 14 dated January 15, 2022 on implementing the Project in 2022.

The project sets out 33 targets and identifies 76 specific tasks (including 37 cultural tasks and 39 tourism tasks); assigned to 16 agencies, units, socio-political organizations and 14 communes and wards to take charge of implementation.

Each task assigned in the form of "assigning tasks and contracting products" is chaired by the town leader, responsible for directing and consulting with specialized agencies, coordinating agencies, and especially requiring a completion schedule.

On that basis, monthly and quarterly review and assessment of progress and implementation results, timely supplementing solutions for implementation. The clear assignment, decentralization and implementation of individual responsibility regime have contributed to enhancing the sense of responsibility of each individual and each collective for the implementation of each task, ensuring closeness, practicality and efficiency.

PV: Besides the achieved results, what difficulties did Nghia Lo town encounter during the implementation of the Project, sir?

Comrade Luong Manh Ha: Besides the advantages, in the process of implementing the Project "Building Nghia Lo town into a cultural and tourist town in the period of 2021-2025", we also encountered some difficulties and problems, such as: Implementing the Project at a time when the whole country as well as the province and the town are highly focused on the prevention and control of the widespread outbreak of Covid-19. This is a large project, requiring a lot of resources.

However, the implementation of the Project does not have specific mechanisms and policies. Currently, it is combining the implementation of medium-term public investment capital sources and support funding sources from Resolution No. 10 dated April 19, 2021 of the Yen Bai Provincial People's Council.

In addition, high-quality human resources for tourism development are still lacking; skills and expertise of the workforce in the tourism sector are still limited, failing to meet the increasing demands of tourists; the rate of workers trained in tourism is still low, there are few workers with professional expertise and skills, and there is a lack of highly skilled workers...

In addition, the implementation of some targets and tasks is still behind schedule, such as: the construction of walking streets, culture, cuisine is facing difficulties, not calling for and attracting investors; the development of typical products of the town (from production, product packaging design, marketing work in the market) is still small, unsynchronized, and unattractive, thus not stimulating the spending needs of tourists; there is still a delay in building a dossier to recognize provincial-level tourist attractions, proposing to recognize National Intangible Cultural Heritage...

PV : To build Nghia Lo town into a cultural and tourist town according to the roadmap, in the coming time, what solutions will the town focus on, comrade?

Comrade Luong Manh Ha: To build Nghia Lo town into a cultural and tourist town according to the set roadmap, in the coming time, the town will focus on implementing the following tasks and solutions:

Firstly, consistently develop tourism in association with preserving traditional cultural values of the locality. Maintain the fundamental role of culture to build tourism products suitable to potential and advantages.

Second, the town will strengthen and improve the effectiveness of promotional activities to bring the image of the land and people of Nghia Lo to domestic and foreign tourists; continue to organize well events, cultural and tourism festivals associated with restoring, preserving and promoting traditional cultural values, especially the annual Muong Lo Cultural - Tourism Festival, because this is the largest festival, attracting the largest number of visitors of the year.

Third, develop unique and attractive tourism products to serve the needs of tourists. Strengthen state management of culture and tourism in the area and improve the quality of human resources. At the same time, strengthen calling for, mobilizing and attracting investment resources and enhance international cooperation in tourism development.

PV : Thank you very much, comrade!

Van Tuan (performed)

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