Thua Thien-Hue receives donation to develop traditional craft products
Thua Thien-Hue has received 25,000 EUR (29,000 USD) from a UK national who donated the money to help the central province develop traditional craft products.
A man carves a bronze product at the bronze casting village in Phuong Duc ward of Hue city (Photo: VNA)
Thua Thien-Hue (VNA) – Thua Thien-Hue has received25,000 EUR (29,000 USD) from a UK national who donated the money to help thecentral province develop traditional craft products.
Hoang Ngoc Khanh, Chief of the Office of theprovincial People’s Committee, said on May 28 that the administration handedover the money, donated by a woman named Victoria Elizabeth Ho, to the HueCentre for Cultural Preservation and Economic Development to fund marketingactivities, development of traditional products, and exhibition of products oflocal craft villages.
From now to 2020, Thua Thien-Hue plans to spend144.3 billion VND (6.3 million USD) on supporting craft villages’ development,promoting the training and maintenance of traditional crafts, and expanding themarket for products of craft villages and rural industries.
In the short term, it will promote eight craftsand craft villages in association with tourism to enhance traditional craftproduction and create more tourism services, thus providing jobs for more ruralresidents.
The craft villages that the province prioritisesin the time ahead include Hue bronze casting village (in Phuong Duc and ThuyXuan wards, Hue city), Phuoc Tich pottery making village and My Xuyen woodcarving village (in Phong Hoa commune, Phong Dien district), Sinh folk paintingvillage and Thanh Tien paper flower village (Phu Mau commune, Phu Vangdistrict), Thuy Thanh conical hat village (Thuy Thanh commune, Huong Thuytownship), My Lam conical hat village (Phu My commune, Phu Vang district), Zengweaving village (A Roang and A Dot communes of A Luoi town, A Luoi district),and Bao La bamboo weaving village (Quang Phu and Quang Loi communes, Quang Diendistrict).
Thua Thien-Hue has issued a development plan forlocal traditional crafts and craft villages until 2025. This plan aims to helpaccelerate the industrialisation and modernisation of rural areas whilecreating jobs and raising income for rural residents.
Accordingly, the province will step up craftvillages’ application of science-technology in production activities to improvethe design, productivity, quality and competitiveness of traditional craftproducts. It will also develop the crafts that generate high economic benefitsand combine craft village preservation with tourism development.-VNA
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A man carves a bronze product at the bronze casting village in Phuong Duc ward of Hue city (Photo: VNA) 
