Hanoi will provide 3.6 trillion VND (189 million USD) to preserve anddevelop craft villages over 2010-2015 to preserve traditional craftvillages, develop tourism and build new ones while ensuring theenvironment is protected.
The city will prioritise 25 traditional villages that are underthreat of falling beyond repair and that need to be restored andpreserved. They include Dong My lacquer village, Dai Ang conical hatvillage, Nghia Do “sac” paper village, Van Canh “do” paper village andNgu Xa copper casting village.
The project will help to developtourism at craft villages, assist family households to maintain theirproduction for tourist purposes, provide finance for vocational trainingand encourage the production of high quality handicrafts.
Thecity is also paying more attention to developing new craft villages tohelp generate jobs and increase local residents incomes.
In orderto attract investment to preserve craft villages, Hanoi will grantsoft loans to businesses for a duration of 3-5 years, to help them topromote their trade marks and promote craft villages in the city.
Settingup and developing the sale of crafts in domestic and foreign marketswith a focus on linking up with supermarkets and trade centres andassisting craft villages to boost exports will be also be conducted.
Inorder to avoid pollution, the city will encourage craft businesses tomove to industrial complexes and help businesses to upgrade theirequipment.
At present, Hanoi has almost 1,350 craft villages,making up 59 percent of the country’s total, that provide jobs for over626,000 people, with an annual average income of 13.1 million VND perperson.
In 2009, Hanoi ’s craft villages earned 7.65 trillionVND (402 million USD), equal to 8.4 percent of the city’s industrialproduction value.
According to the Hanoi Centre for IndustrialPromotion and Consultancy, despite the assistance to help traditionalcraft villages in Hanoi , they have encountered many problems.
Inorder to promote Hanoi ’s craft villages, a festival “Thang Long-Hanoicraft villages and streets” will be held in Hanoi between September16-21./.
The city will prioritise 25 traditional villages that are underthreat of falling beyond repair and that need to be restored andpreserved. They include Dong My lacquer village, Dai Ang conical hatvillage, Nghia Do “sac” paper village, Van Canh “do” paper village andNgu Xa copper casting village.
The project will help to developtourism at craft villages, assist family households to maintain theirproduction for tourist purposes, provide finance for vocational trainingand encourage the production of high quality handicrafts.
Thecity is also paying more attention to developing new craft villages tohelp generate jobs and increase local residents incomes.
In orderto attract investment to preserve craft villages, Hanoi will grantsoft loans to businesses for a duration of 3-5 years, to help them topromote their trade marks and promote craft villages in the city.
Settingup and developing the sale of crafts in domestic and foreign marketswith a focus on linking up with supermarkets and trade centres andassisting craft villages to boost exports will be also be conducted.
Inorder to avoid pollution, the city will encourage craft businesses tomove to industrial complexes and help businesses to upgrade theirequipment.
At present, Hanoi has almost 1,350 craft villages,making up 59 percent of the country’s total, that provide jobs for over626,000 people, with an annual average income of 13.1 million VND perperson.
In 2009, Hanoi ’s craft villages earned 7.65 trillionVND (402 million USD), equal to 8.4 percent of the city’s industrialproduction value.
According to the Hanoi Centre for IndustrialPromotion and Consultancy, despite the assistance to help traditionalcraft villages in Hanoi , they have encountered many problems.
Inorder to promote Hanoi ’s craft villages, a festival “Thang Long-Hanoicraft villages and streets” will be held in Hanoi between September16-21./.
