NA Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue (centre) visits booths display OCOP products at the Vietnam Craft Villages Festival. (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – The Vietnam Craft Villages Festival 2023 opened in Hanoi on Novemb🌞er 9,ꦆ with the participation of National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hueand more than 300 delegates.
The 4-day event aims at preserving and promoting values of traditional craft villages, and boosting consumption, improving handicraft product value and developing tourism in craft villages.
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le MinhHoan highlighted that while urban areas illustrate the nation’s vibrantsocio-economic development, rural areas are the place where cultural identityand values have been kept for years.
As traditional handicraft products have made significant contributions to theeconomy and society, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD)will continue working closely with competent ministries, sectors and localitiesto create favourable conditions for handicraft artisans and designers topreserve the traditional values, giving a helping hand to build new-style ruralareas, and improve rural livelihoods.
Meanwhile, Chairman of the Hanoi People’s Committee of Hanoi Tran Sy Thanh said the capital has been prioritising the development of craftvillages and carrying out a wide range of mechanisms and policies topreserve them, striving to form an innovative centre for the introduction of OCOP products and branch out nine centres for design andintroduction of OCOP products in districts and towns by 2025.
Hanoi will further its coordination with the MARD to effectively carryout the preservation work for traditional craft villages, Thanh said.
NA Chairman Hue visited boꦦoths displaying OCOP productsand handicraft pro🐲ducts from Laos, Indonesia, and Thailand.
As many as 300 booths are displayingtraditional creations at the festival, including Bat Trang ceramic, My Ducsilk, Phu Vinh bamboo and rattan, Ha Thai lacquer, Chuon Ngo mother-of-pearlinlaid, Chu Dau pottery and many more.
Alongside handicraft products, it also introduces high-quality OCOP agriculturalspecialties such as Dien Bien rice, Tu Le sticky rice, and Vi Thuy organic rice.
During the festiv💎al, artisans and craftsmen alsodemonstrate how they create delicate embroidery pieces, weave silk, and makeconical hats, pottery objects or copper bas relief💯./.
