On the afternoon of November 1, in Hanoi, the provincial delegation, led by Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Hoang Hai Minh, had a working session with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on the contents related to projects on planning, green transportation and climate change. Mr. Shantanu Chakraborty, the ADB Country Director for Vietnam, worked with the delegation.

On the morning of October 24, the Hue Green Hub officially launched and came into operation. The Hue Green Hub was formed within the framework of the initiative “KODO Complex of Education – Arts”, which was funded by the project Hue – A City to Reduce Plastic in the Central Region of Vietnam/WWF-Vietnam and received the sponsorship of the Hue Innovation Hub.

These are 6 of 121 Vietnamese culinary dishes that have just been honored by the Vietnam Cuisine Culture Association (VCCA) as typical national dishes in phase I of a project titled "Building and Developing Vietnamese Culinary Culture into a National Brand Name”. All of these 6 dishes, including: Hue beef noodle soup, glutinous rice dumplings stuffed with roasted pork in sweet soup, mussel rice, banh loc (glutinous rice dumplings), vegetarian fig salad, and lotus-leaf-wrapped steamed rice; all are close to the gardens and paddy fields of the land.

Hue City aims to establish a smart tourism information infrastructure which is compatible with smart devices, contributing to ensuring a consistent management system and the utilization of cultural and tourism information among local organizations. This is the objective of the project to build a smart cultural and tourism Hue city, sponsored by KOICA (Korea International Cooperation Agency in Vietnam).

On the morning of June 17th, the Airports Corporation of Vietnam (ACV) held a grand opening ceremony for the T2 Passenger Terminal at Phu Bai International Airport. This is a project to commemorate the 5th anniversary of the establishment of the State Capital Management Committee at Enterprises.

On the occasion of Vietnam's 2nd Book and Reading Culture Day, on the morning of April 22, the provincial People's Committee held a meeting with publishers and publishing companies to listen to feedbacks and suggestions for the development of the Hue Bookcase project.

On April 20, Hoang Tuan Long, an architect from Ho Chi Minh City, confirmed that he would continue to implement the volunteer community project of the work "Map of Vietnam" made from giang toothpicks at the BOARC exhibition – the Exhibition of handmade creative designs, which is due to take place from April 28 to May 5 (within the framework of Hue Traditional Craft Festival 2023).

For the first time, Vietnam is about to have an "immersive" digital art experience space named Sốnglab, with an area of over 1,000 square meters. The special thing is that this project is made by Vietnamese artists, and it is expected to be launched in May.

Following the success of previous 8 events from 2005 up to now and implementing the project of the Four-Season Festival, Hue city People’s Committee continues to organize the 9th Hue Traditional Craft Festival 2023 with the theme “Essence of Vietnamese Craft” from April 28 to May 5, 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.