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Hanoi will provide 3.6 trillion VND

Hanoi (VNA) – Hanoi will provide 3.6 trillion VND (189 million USD) to preserve
and develop craft villages over 2010-2015 to preserve traditional craft villages,
develop tourism and build new ones while ensuring the environment is protected.

The city will prioritise 25 traditional villages that are under threat of falling
beyond repair and that need to be restored and preserved. They include Dong My
lacquer village, Dai Ang conical hat village, Nghia Do “sac” paper village, Van
Canh “do” paper village and Ngu Xa copper casting village.

The project will help to develop tourism at craft villages, assist family households
to maintain their production for tourist purposes, provide finance for vocational
training and encourage the production of high quality handicrafts.

The city is also paying more attention to developing new craft villages to help
generate jobs and increase local residents incomes.

In order to attract investment to preserve craft villages, Hanoi will grant
soft loans to businesses for a duration of 3-5 years, to help them to promote their
trade marks and promote craft villages in the city.

Setting up and developing the sale of crafts in domestic and foreign markets with a
focus on linking up with supermarkets and trade centres and assisting craft villages
to boost exports will be also be conducted.

In order to avoid pollution, the city will encourage craft businesses to move to
industrial complexes and help businesses to upgrade their equipment.

At present, Hanoi has almost 1,350 craft villages, making up 59 percent of the
country’s total, that provide jobs for over 626,000 people, with an annual average
income of 13.1 million VND per person.

In 2009, Hanoi ’s craft villages earned 7.65 trillion VND (402 million USD),
equal to 8.4 percent of the city’s industrial production value.

According to the Hanoi Centre for Industrial Promotion and Consultancy, despite the
assistance to help traditional craft villages in Hanoi , they have encountered
many problems.

In order to promote Hanoi ’s craft villages, a festival “Thang Long-Hanoi craft
villages and streets” will be held in Hanoi between September 16-21.-Enditem





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