Thai Nguyen: Master plan on Nui Coc lake development announced

Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue has lauded the northern mountainous province of Thai Nguyen’s optimal conditions for tourism development, particularly Nui Coc lake and tea culture.
Thai Nguyen: Master plan on Nui Coc lake development announced ảnh 1At the event (Source: VNA)
Thai Nguyen (VNA) – DeputyPrime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue has lauded the northern mountainous province ofThai Nguyen’s optimal conditions for tourism development, particularly Nui Coclake and tea culture.

He made the praise during a localceremony on December 25 to announce a master plan on developing the Nui Coclake national tourist area to 2025 with orientations to 2030.

The Deputy PM suggested attentionshould also be paid to the maintenance and preservation of ecological environmentwithin and around the lake, given that the lake also helps with irrigation, aquacultureand flood prevention.

Hue revealed that the governmentwill devise an action plan to materialise the government’s resolution onVietnam’s tourism restructuring for 2016-2020, which focuses on tourisminfrastructure, environment and products imbued with traditional culturalcharacteristics.

Apart from calling on strategicinvestors, the province was advised to develop community-based tourism, consideringthe people a crucial factor during the process.

According to the Deputy PM, thegovernment has directed ministries and agencies to refine policies regardinginvestment, taxation, fees, electricity and e-visa while strengthening Statemanagement in tourism.

As part of the capital zonemaster plan and the country’s third largest hub of human resources development,Thai Nguyen must become economically and militarily strong, he stated.

At the event, he also witnessedthe signing of 10 investment projects in the fields of electricity, tourism,infrastructure and telecommunications worth over 45 trillion VND (1.95 billionUSD) in total, and a ceremony to begin the construction of Nui Coc lake road,one of the first works in the master plan.

According to the Nui Coc lake masterplan, 1,200ha, exclusive of water surface, will be earmarked for thedevelopment of a national tourist area, which will offer sightseeing and resort,water sports and community-based ecological services in association with TamDao national park in Quan Chu commune.

The lake is expected to berecognised as a national tourist area before 2025. By 2030, it looks to be amajor ecological and resort centre of the country and serves 4 milliontourists, earning nearly 2 trillion VND (86.9 million USD).

In the morning the same day, theofficial attended a ceremony announcing the PM’s decision on approving adjustmentsto the Thai Nguyen master plan by 2035 and beginning the construction of a flood-proofsystem on Cau River and completing urban infrastructure on two banks of the river.

The project, costing over 18trillion VND (780 million USD), comprises nine components invested by a jointventure between Phuc Loc Group and the Civil Engineering ConstructionCorporation (CIENCO) No.8 in the public-private partnership and build-transfermodel.

The Deputy PM emphasised that theadjustments aim to develop Thai Nguyen into an economic, cultural, education,health care, tourism and service centre in the northern mountainous and midlandregion, and in the development quadrangular of the northern key economic region.

On the occasion, he presented thePM’s decision to the provincial authorities.-VNA
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