With its advantages in geography, natural landscapes, and convenient transportation, Lac Thuy district in the northern province of Hoa Binh has huge potential to develop tourism, especially culture and spiritual tourism, eco-tourism, and festival tourism.
Since the Law on Cultural Heritage was enacted,
the district has worked hard to prohibit actions that infringe upon cultural
heritage, distort, damage, or pose risks to cultural heritage, illegally
excavate archaeological sites, construct illegally, or encroach upon land
within historical-cultural relics and scenic spots.
The Muong culture heritage conservation club in Ba Hang Doi town has collected
and displayed over 2,000 items, including objects used in the daily life of the
Muong people.
Lac Thuy homes six national relic sites, 12
provincial-level relics, and 67 others that in the list requiring protection. In recent years, the locality has paid attention
to communication activities to raise public awareness of the importance of
cultural heritage conservation and promotion. The district People’s Committee has focused on
developing and scaling up models to conserve and promote the cultural heritage
values of local ethnic groups. The district maintains five clubs for conserving
and promoting the cultural values of the Muong ethnic group in Ba Hang Doi town
and the communes of An Binh, Phu Nghia, Hung Thi, and Thong Nhat. Additionally, there are 20 Muong gong
teams, eight poetry clubs, and 112 cultural performance teams in villages and residential
areas within the district.
Efforts to encourage the involvement of society
in conserving and promoting the values of cultural heritage have yielded
positive results. Through donation drives for artifacts for exhibition, the
family of patriotic bourgeois Do Dinh Thien donated a total of 62 artifacts
preserved and displayed at the Money Printing Factory relic site.
Nguyen Thi Thanh Tam, Director of the Culture
and Information Department of Lac Thuy district, said that the locality
identifies the conservation and promotion of cultural heritage values as an
important and regular task.
In the coming time, the district will continue
to enhance the effectiveness of state management in the work in accordance with
the decentralised management hierarchy, concentrating on outlining specific
programmes and projects.
Hoa Binh province has shown strong performance in family planning by effectively implementing directions and plans in the field, including Directive No. 12/CT-UBND issued by the Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee on August 4, 2021 on rolling out measures to maintain the policy of each couple having two children, which is stated in community rules and the regulations of agencies, organisations, and units across the province of Hoa Binh for the 2021 – 2025 period.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh attended a hybrid conference on December 18 to review the culture, sport, and tourism sector’s performance in 2024 and launch key tasks for 2025. Standing Deputy Secretary of the Hoa Binh provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the provincial People’s Council Bui Duc Hinh, Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Nguyen Van Chuong and officials from local departments and sectors also took part in the event.
Hoa Binh’s Department of Culture, Sports, and Tourism on December 18, hosted a conference to present the outcomes of a research study on the traditional costumes of the Muong ethnic group.
Along with the activities of Project 6 - the national target programme for socio-economic development in ethnic minority-inhabited and mountainous areas for the 2021 – 2026 period, efforts to preserve and promote the traditional cultural values of ethnic minorities in Lac Son district have received additional momentum.
In the context of globalisation and deeper integration, preserving and promoting the national cultural identity is of utmost importance. Aware of their pioneering and proactive role on all fronts, over the years, the youth organisations at all levels in Hoa Binh province have implemented various concrete and practical activities to preserve and promote the cultural identities of ethnic groups in the locality.