Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha chaired the 4th meeting of the Coordinating Council for the North-Central and Central Coastal Region in Thua Thien – Hue province on May 19, during which the decision approving the regional planning scheme for the 2021-2030 period with a vision to 2050 was announced.

Visitors can enjoy the beauty of coral reefs when traveling to the central coastal region and even touch them. The season for open-air coral reefs in the region is from the fourth to the sixth lunar month, when tides are at their lowest on days of the full moon and during sunset on the first day of the lunar month.

The central province of Thua Thien-Hue welcomed more than 4 million visitors between January-November, up 19.7 percent year-on-year.

Several airlines have announced cancellation of flights to and from airports in the central coastal region on September 14 and 15 as Storm Doksuri is approaching the central coast.

A conference was held in the central province of Ha Tinh on May 16 to seek ways to sustainably develop sand-based shrimp farming, for which the central coastal region holds huge potential.

The recent mass fish death in the central coastal region is likely due to the contamination of biological or chemical toxins at high levels, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development reported.

Severe drought will linger in the Central Highlands and southern regions until May or June, and in the central coastal region until August.

The EU-funded capacity development programme for environmentally and socially responsible tourism in Vietnam (EU-ESRT) is building a website to help promote tourism in the central coastal region.