The historical, cultural values and outstanding qualities of the people of the sacred land of Hoa Lu (Ninh Binh) are always preserved, spread, opened and continuously transformed, becoming a unique value, a driving force and competitive advantage for Ninh Binh province to strongly rise up, towards a global city on the platform of a Centuries-old heritage city imbued with Vietnamese identity.
The city is located at the "five-way" intersection on strategic intersections
Hoa Lu city is located at the intersection of 5 national strategic intersections in the southern part of the Red River Delta, ensuring trade between the country's regions.
Hoa Lu connects with large urban areas, regions, especially the Northern provinces. This heritage city is located on the North-South expressway, the North-South expressway, connecting the Southern and Central provinces with the capital Hanoi; located on the East-West corridor connecting the Northwest region with the Gulf of Tonkin coast.
Hoa Lu is about 100 km from Hanoi Capital (equivalent to the distance from Hai Phong to Hanoi), Hoa Lu has the conditions to build and develop into a counter-popular urban area in the rapid urbanization trend to supplement and compensate in the fields of ecological logistics, resorts, tourism, cultural industry, entertainment industry associated with building heritage cities, ecological cities, and cultural landscape cities.
It can be said that this is a rare prime location, favorable for trade, territorial organization, regional governance, investment attraction, promoting industrialization, modernization, urbanization, and inter-regional connectivity.
Heritage and cultural values make Hoa Lu city unique
Hoa Lu City is a world heritage city, located entirely in the space of the ancient Hoa Lu Citadel, where the sacred spirit of heaven and earth converges, with a painted, close-range, tank- oriented position, containing a huge heritage imbued with Vietnamese identity, including the heritage of the ancient capital.
This place was chosen by Dinh Bo Linh as the Capital of the Great Lakes after defeating and conquering 12 ambassadors, opening the title of emperor, establishing the first centrally-governed state in the history of the nation, re-establishing the nation with full sovereignty, unifying the country, elevating the country's position after a thousand years of occupation by the North, creating a foundation for the capital Thang Long - Hanoi, opening the Great Vietnamese civilization.
Hoa Lu city owns a huge, rich and unique heritage resource, along with beautiful natural landscapes, creating unique potential, unique values, and competitive advantages in the development process. That helps Hoa Lu city rely on heritage resources, cultural resources, natural landscape conditions, facilitating the construction of a cultural landscape heritage city, ecological city - an urban model that is both modern and imbued with its own identity, harmonious between people and nature, between heritage conservation and socio-economic development, overcoming the situation of "concrete" urban development, "compressed" urban areas is becoming a common challenge today.
Heritage resources, natural landscapes, and cultural resources are the premise for building Hoa Lu City into a specialized center for tourism, cultural industry, entertainment industry, heritage economy, regional and national event organization, and international integration. That is also the foundation for a green economy, a creative economy for building a billion-year heritage city, overcoming the "compressed" and "toned" urban forms that cause many consequences.
Hoa Lu is rising to affirm itself as a global city
As a world heritage city with the title of UNESCO, Hoa Lu city has become a typical model of green, harmonious, sustainable development, based on heritage resources, cultural resources, and beautiful natural landscape values, effectively solving the relationship between heritage conservation and green economic development. Recently, UNESCO experts have priced Trang An Scenic Landscape Complex at 213 billion USD.
Each year, Hoa Lu city welcomes about 1.5 million international visitors, out of a total of 9 million visitors; urban development criteria are strictly regulated according to the characteristics of a billion-year heritage city. The local identity and brand of Hoa Lu's awarded city heritage city of the 21st century has a great influence in the global network of heritage cities with the UNESCO title, contributing to increasing the country's soft power in international integration.
As a global city, Hoa Lu city is planned to develop according to civilized, modern, green urban standards, rich in local identity. That is the model of a heritage city, a cultural landscape city that ensures harmony between artificial architecture and the natural environment, between modernity and preservation of traditional values, completely different from the models of an industrial city in the "toning" style.
Hoa Lu contrists with heritage-based urbanization models, which damage the environment, creating holes to separate urban and rural development. This is an accepted urban model that retains local identity and the quintessence of the ancient capital of Hoa Lu.
The architecture of the project, culture and lifestyle of residents express the style of a millennium heritage urban area, a creative city.
As a global city, Hoa Lu city has become a space to share the vision and common values of ethnic groups, for a better world.
Hoa Lu city's initiatives have always been widely recognized and disseminated by UNESCO, especially solving the relationship between heritage conservation and tourism development, integrating the value of cultural heritage and natural heritage, solving livelihoods for local communities based on heritage, preserving heritage, expanding the network of heritage cities with UNESCO titles.
In the coming time, Hoa Lu city is promoting UNESCO's vision and initiatives on building a philosophy of nature protection, on the model of a heritage cultural landscape city, on outdoor innovation, on the development of nature simulation technology, on the development of creative economic sectors as an economic foundation for heritage cities, creative cities.
As a global city imbued with Vietnamese identity, the Hoa Lu city development plan ensures spatial connectivity, building symbolic institutions worthy of the land of the ancient capital of Hoa Lu. The transportation network starts from Hoa Lu to the surrounding provinces, with large urban areas basically formed synchronously and modernly, allowing regional linkages such as the North - South expressway, East - West corridor, Ninh Binh - Hai Phong expressway, coastal road.
Hoa Lu also shaped the largest spiritual and cultural works at the top of the country, demonstrating the stature of the ancient capital heritage city, where the sacred soul of the river and mountains rests such as Dan Kinh Thien, Bai Dinh pagoda, religious and belief works.
The iconic cultural institutions of the world heritage city of the billion year, the global city such as Dinh Tien Hoang Square, Pham Thi Tran Theater, Trang An Cultural Park... along with that, continue to plan, invest and are building the General Museum, Exhibition Palace, Fair, Contemporary Art Center, the Ministry of the Year, Duc Thuy Son Lighting Park... These are works forever worthy of the heritage city of the Ancient Capital.
Ninh Binh province is preparing an investment plan for the restoration and reconstruction of Hoa Lu Imperial Citadel, especially military citadels such as the Palace, the castle, the main gate, the main gate... creating a highlight of the city of a thousand-year-old heritage.
In addition, the service infrastructure meets the requirements of developing a specialized center for tourism, cultural industry, entertainment, innovation of the region, the country and international integration such as Hoa Lu University, Provincial Political School, Provincial General Hospital, Sports Center, 5-star International Hotel... and is planning and attracting investment to build a Cinema, International Football Academy, International Innovation Center.
Hoa Lu City is firmly entering the new era with the mindset of a millennium heritage city, a global city, a specialized center for tourism, cultural industry, entertainment industry, creative innovation of the region, the country and reaching international standards.
crystallizing from the sacred gas of the river and mountain, the foundation of historical and cultural values of the ancient capital of Hoa Lu is promoted in the spirit of a new era - the era of national growth, creating position and strength for Hoa Lu city to develop strongly and make breakthroughs.
