After Hue craft festival 2023 being organized for eight days, on the morning of May 5, the People's Committee of Hue City held a closing ceremony of a contest for voting the typical products at Hue Traditional Craft Festival 2023, and announced the winning products.

The event included many activities such as the exhibition of books and paintings themed "Hue - April sunshine", a publication design contest "life-changing books", talks, and an introduction of historical novels about the Nguyen dynasty by the writer Tran Thuy Mai. On this occasion, a number of publishers, and authors also donated books to the Provincial General Library.

On this occasion, Hue Monuments Conservation Center will also organize a contest "Sharing good books" among several schools, such as Quoc Hoc Hue High School for the Gifted, Hai Ba Trung High School, and Nguyen Hue High School to spread the reading culture to the younger generations.

This contest is organized by Hue Monuments Conservation Center in collaboration with the People's Committee of Hue City, with the aim to explore creative ideas of public architecture (for pedestrians) from Nguyen Hoang bus station to Hue Imperial City area.

On the afternoon of February 28, Song Huong Magazine launched a poetry contest with the theme “Hue poetry 2023”.

On the morning of February 23, the project ‘Hue - A City to Reduce Plastics in Central Vietnam’ (sponsored by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in Vietnam through WWF-Norway) and the Provincial Center for Innovative Startup officially launched the contest “Initiatives to reduce plastic waste - Hue 2023”. The contest was held with an aim to find innovative ideas to reduce plastic waste in Hue City.

On the evening of February 18, the Organizing Committee of Hue-ICT Challenge 2023 said that, till the end of the registration period, there were 1,348 candidates who are junior high school students and senior high school students nationwide registered to participate in Hue-ICT Challenge 2023 contest, nearly 4-fold increase in number compared to the first time held in 2022.

On January 12th, the Organizing Committee of the contest, Hue Festival Center, announced the winners of the photo and video contest “Impression of Hue Festival 2022”.

On the afternoon of January 7, the People's Committee of An Dong Ward, Hue City held the opening ceremony of the program " Tet of Unity ", the contests of making banh chung, banh tet, and traditional crystallized ginger in 2023 at Dang Van Ngu Secondary School.

Vietnam surpassed other contestants in the region, such as China, Hong Kong, Macao, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, and Thailand to become "Asia's Best Culinary Destination 2022".