“Hue is ancient, yet always new and surprising. Anyone who has ever spent an entire misty morning or a cool sunset walking along the two banks of the Huong River will feel the magical vitality of Hue today... Hue is developing day by day, gradually worthy a city of heritage, a future center of specialized culture, education, tourism and healthcare of the country and the region” - These are the deep feelings of a distant friend about a Hue that is "forever beautiful and poetic".

For the first time, more than 100 documents, containing royal seals and autographs, along with many images about the story of the construction of Hue Imperial Citadel, were vividly reenacted through an exhibition held right in the Flag Tower (Ky Dai) area, the Upper Surface of the Citadel rampart, Hue Imperial Citadel.

On the morning of January 30th, the Organizing Committee of the “Tet Hue 2024” program held a press conference to provide information about the purpose, significance, and some activities within the framework of the Tet Hue 2024 program. The conference was attended by city leaders, departments, and journalists from central and local press agencies.

The Hue Monument Conservation Centre (HMCC) has recently unveiled the Hue Heritage Conservation Fund (HHCF) website - quydisanhue.vn. The HHCF website serves as a platform providing comprehensive, complete and centralized information about the fund, while also being a public and sole address on the internet for calling and receiving support from individuals and organizations for the HHCF.

In the process of digitalizing ancient documents about Can Chanh Palace, Nguyen Tan Anh Phong and his collaborators discovered one of the two glass paintings currently hung at the Department of History, College of Sciences, Hue University is the precious painting which used to belong to Can Chanh Palace in the Imperial City.

On January 4th, the Department of Tourism organized a conference to kick off the tourism sector's activities for the year 2024.

The Hue Trumpet Orchestra will perform some new songs about Christmas and some famous foreign pieces such as: Jingle bell rock, Holy Night, We wish you a Merry Christmas, Silent Night, Feliz Navidad.

“Despite being newly-established, Hue Museum of Fine Arts, with its status and constant efforts over the years, has contributed to enriching and livening the ancient capital’s artistic life.”

The outdoor exhibition at Phung Tien Palace, Hue Imperial City offered viewers an opportunity to learn about the architecture, spiritual life under the Nguyen Dynasty as well as the cultural, historical and artistic values of this era through virtual reconstruction combined with reality.

Thai Y Vien was a form of medical service in ancient Hue. How to exploit this heritage, making it into a tourist product and service is what people involved are seriously thinking about.