“We will propose to the provincial authorities to consider and coordinate with the French Embassy to Vietnam to agree on a draft of cooperation agreement with the French School of the Far East (EFEO) to exchange and cooperate in data searching and managing, establishing an electronic database and data on heritage digitization, that add more sources of original documents to Hue heritage,” shared Mr. Hoang Viet Trung, Director of Hue Monuments Conservation Center (HMCC) after returning from his business trip to France.

The Decree clearly states that the Hue Heritage Conservation Fund is a national fund established by the Government and assigned to Thua Thien - Hue province to directly manage, in order to mobilize resources to invest in the restoration, conservation, and development of Hue heritage value and investment in works and items that have not been funded by the state budget or allocated insufficient funds.

Thua Thien Hue is a locality with numerous traditional crafts and craft villages, but due to the lack of links in production, the designs are not rich and the output prices are not consistent. So, many handicraft products in the province have difficulty on the market and many artisans and craftsmen struggle to "live" with their profession.

It is the content emphasized by the Chairman of Hue City People's Committee Vo Le Nhat at the meeting with Mr. Thierry Vergon, Cultural Attaché of the Embassy of France in Vietnam on October 11.

After 200 years of important changes and development, the name Thua Thien prefecture, which was coined in the year of the Horse (1822) under the reign of Emperor Minh Mang, has now been changed to Thua Thien Hue.

A journey of 200 years, from the name “Thua Thien” to “Thua Thien Hue” as is known today, was the topic of a scientific conference organized by the Provincial Historical Science Association on the morning of September 27 with the participation of many experts and researchers.

Many large projects have been launched in the expectation of kick-starting the socio-economic development of Thua Thien Hue. With the policy of investment attraction, after the pandemic, the economy is making a step-by-step recovery.

Thousands of artifacts including Buddhist woodblocks, books related to philosophy, literature, Buddhism as well as disciplines related to a humane society, and recordings of Hue Buddhist events... which have been carefully collected by and donated to the Vietnam Buddhist Academy in Hue for many years are officially announced for the first time, surprising the public.

Recently, there have been many direct investment promotion activities being organized; besides, many visits and investment surveys of foreign enterprises to Hue also began to bustle again, opening up many great opportunities to welcome FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) inflows.

On the afternoon of September 9, the Vietnam Buddhist Academy in Hue announced the decision to establish and launch the Archive and Research Center of the academy located at campus 1 - Hong Duc Pagoda (109 Minh Mang, Thuy Xuan Ward, Hue City).