Ninh Binh province has just held a conference to announce the Project to adjust the Ninh Binh urban master plan to 2040 according to Decision No. 668/QD-TTg dated March 26, 2025 approved by the Prime Minister.

Comrade Doan Minh Huan, Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee attended and directed the Conference. Comrade Pham Quang Ngoc, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee chaired the Conference.

Developing Hoa Lu city to become a model of Millennium Heritage City

At the Conference, the leaders of the Department of Construction reported some main contents of Decision No. 668/QD-TTg dated March 26, 2025 of the Prime Minister on approving the Project to adjust the General Urban Planning of Ninh Binh to 2040.

Accordingly, the scope and boundaries of the adjusted planning include: The entire administrative boundary of Hoa Lu city, Gia Sinh commune of Gia Vien district, Khanh Hoa commune and Khanh Phu commune of Yen Khanh district; part of the administrative boundary of Gia Tan commune of Gia Vien district, Tan Binh ward and Yen Son commune of Tam Diep city, Phuc Son commune and Quynh Luu commune of Nho Quan district, Khanh Thuong commune of Yen Mo district.

The planning scale is about 23,242 hectares, the development structure follows the heritage urban model with a structure connecting heritage and urban and rural areas, including 1 core area of ​​Trang An-Hoa Lu Heritage; 2 areas are concentrated urban construction area, heritage area and urban ecology; 5 areas: central urban area, Trang An Scenic Landscape Complex, urban ecology, Bai Dinh, Ben Dang.

With the orientation of developing urban space associated with preserving and promoting the value of Trang An Scenic Landscape Complex and Hoa Lu Ancient Capital, following the heritage urban model; developing urban areas concentrated in the east, associated with the north-south development axis, creating an urban belt, services around the core area of ​​Trang An Scenic Landscape Complex and Hoa Lu Ancient Capital; developing green urban space associated with natural ecosystems; restoring and reconstructing cultural heritage values, ancient capitals, ancient rivers, works and ecological landscapes along ancient rivers, ancient roads, ancient villages; rearranging existing residential areas, tourist service areas and some infrastructures located in the core area to create conditions for preserving and protecting the value of heritage...

Speaking at the Conference, Chairman of Ninh Binh Provincial People's Committee Pham Quang Ngoc emphasized: The major goal of the arrangement of administrative units at district and commune levels in the past time is to build Hoa Lu into a heritage urban area and a nucleus, a driving force to spread and promote the construction of Ninh Binh province into a centrally-run city. This goal has also been approved by the Government in the Ninh Binh Provincial Planning for the period 2021 - 2030, with a vision to 2050.

Therefore, the establishment and adjustment of the Ninh Binh Urban Master Plan to 2040 is to thoroughly grasp and implement that goal and the orientations identified in the plan are the driving force and extremely important basis to guide the provincial planning and serve as the scientific and practical foundation for Ninh Binh to achieve very positive results in orientation, leadership and direction throughout the past period and even at present, creating a very important foundation for the development of the province as well as the provinces in the Southern Red River Delta.

From this Plan, the province continues to identify and has approved the following major goals: Millennium heritage urban area, national and international tourism center; cultural industry center, organization; Cultural industry center, organization of major national and international events deeply integrated into the world heritage urban network; Administrative, political, economic, cultural, medical, educational, sports, tourism and service center of Ninh Binh province is the nucleus to build the whole province into a type I urban area, a city directly under the Central Government.

Speaking at the Conference, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Doan Minh Huan clarified the importance of urban planning, urban characteristics and future urban development orientation. In a broad sense, planning is leading, grasping the trends and objective movements of the world. Therefore, in any development stage, planning must always go ahead and clearly demonstrate the vision and strategic orientation for the locality. For Ninh Binh province, adjusting the General Urban Planning to 2040 is a task to meet the requirements of development orientation in the context that the whole country is promoting the streamlining of the administrative apparatus and developing regional linkages.

Millennial urban character

The Provincial Party Secretary also analyzed and oriented more clearly the nature of the millennium urban area that Ninh Binh chose. The millennium here not only includes a thousand-year-old ancient capital - the origin of the Dai Co Viet State, the State that built the first complete and complete national administrative foundation of the nation, opening up the Dai Viet civilization. The millennium also shows that it is rare for a place after moving the capital that the urban nature still exists forever and continuously, and does not become a "ruin". Over time, the urban nature of Hoa Lu may have blended into the countryside, but the position of a capital is still affirmed through the periods, becoming a sacred national spirit.

The millennium is also understood as the construction of an urban model to respond to the millennium challenge of the urbanization process that the world is facing, which is compact urban areas, concrete urban areas that annex heritage, encroach on the environment, and annex rural areas. Therefore, the urban model that Ninh Binh chooses is a model to decompress the urbanization challenge that the whole world is facing.

Accordingly, we build Ninh Binh urban area as a park city: Knowledge and innovation science park; heritage park, cultural park, film studio park, craft village park... serving the green economy, creative economy, cultural industry according to the model of cultural landscape urban area, but not conflicting with modern urban and not annexing rural areas. The choice of this urban model is completely consistent with the development trend in Ninh Binh when identifying tourism and cultural industry as key economic clusters and it is also consistent with the trend of world civilization.

In addition, the Provincial Party Secretary also noted that Ninh Binh City is identified as a comprehensive center of the province, a specialized center of the region and the country, reaching international standards, including: National and international tourist urban center; Cultural industrial center, organizing major national and international events; Administrative, political, economic, cultural, medical, educational, sports, tourism and service center of Ninh Binh province... Therefore, in the process of realizing the planning at all levels and sectors, each cadre and party member must fully understand and be unified in ideology to lead, direct, orient, and properly implement the orientation, building Ninh Binh into a model millennium heritage urban area of ​​Vietnam and the world.

With this planning, Ninh Binh not only plans its urban future, but also creates a unique, sustainable and humane development model, contributing to shaping the future of Vietnam's urban development on the world map.

VU DUNG

Source: https://www.qdnd.vn/kinh-te/cac-van-de/ninh-binh-va-tam-nhin-do-thi-di-san-thien-nien-ky-826106