Four key economic development spearheads of Cua Lo town

Innovation in tourism thinking

Compared to Cua Lo itself 10, 15 years ago, it is undeniable that the town has developed remarkably. However, developmentCua Lo tourismIn the past time, with the spirit of bringing to the market what we have but not what the market needs. With that frank awareness, the Standing Committee of Cua Lo City Party Committee has been struggling and determined to innovate tourism, aiming to turn what we have into what the market needs with a variety of services.

Cua Lo tourism must have its own way of doing things and competing with its own brand in depth to meet all the needs and tastes of tourists from luxury to economy.

Comrade Nguyen Thi Kim Chi - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Secretary of Cua Lo Town Party Committee

Cua Lo Beach. Photo: Canh Hung

Comrade Nguyen Thi Kim Chi said: In addition to attracting large tourism projects and promoting the implementation of attracted projects to create momentum for spreading, Cua Lo focuses on upgrading infrastructure and service quality of the restaurant and hotel system in the town; in which the focus is on restructuring the system of "2-star" and "3-star" hotels and motels in the northern area of ​​the town through mobilizing and encouraging organizations and individuals to form alliances and joint investment and development, associated with urban beautification.

The town has also completed the planning of the park area east of Binh Minh Street by clearing all the business kiosks along the beach, returning the beautiful beach space and planning, building grass carpets, green parks to create green space for tourists to walk and enjoy; planning a bathing area, parking lot and some luxury bars and cafes to serve tourists.

Along with that is promoting the strengths of the land of only more than 28 km², but there are up to 11 national and provincial historical relics to build Cua Lo into a spiritual tourist destination for visitors nationwide.

Nguyen Sinh Cung Street - Cua Lo Town is clean and beautiful. Photo: Lam Tung

This requires each restaurant, hotel and each resident to think and really worry, creating a unique feature for their establishment and their hometown. In particular, the town is orienting to develop eco-tourism services and experiences through exploiting the advantages of lotus ponds in residential areas along with building ecosystems along the coast to create impressive and attractive check-in points in Cua Lo.

To be able to exploit and develop servicesecotourism, experience, in the town is currently rising a movement to build model residential areas including 8 groups of criteria with 77 specific contents.

According to comrade Nguyen Thi Kim Chi - Member of the Provincial Standing Committee, Secretary of Cua Lo Town Party Committee, through this movement, we aim to create a major change in thinking, customs, and habits that are not suitable with the trend of developing urban civilization so that we can together take responsibility for building Cua Lo homeland into a livable countryside; at the same time, change the tourism awareness of Cua Lo people, we cannot maintain the "eating waves, talking wind" communication style of coastal people. That is also the depth of tourism that we need to aim for.

Visitors to Nghi Hai fish sauce village. Photo: Thanh Phuc

To create a synchronous movement, the Party Committee assigned each organization to undertake specific tasks. For example, the Veterans Association and the Youth Union are responsible for helping elderly and single households to renovate their houses, gardens, fences; to tie up electrical wires and fiber optic cables; to remove advertising signs and classified ads that affect urban aesthetics. The Farmers' Association directs households to build beautiful garden models, not to let gardens fall into disrepair. The Commune Women's Union is responsible for mobilizing people's resources to build power lines and flag roads in conjunction with maintaining environmental sanitation...

To make Cua Lo become the growth locomotive

The Resolution of the 6th Congress of the Party Committee of Cua Lo town, term 2020 - 2025 sets the goal of developing the town comprehensively, firmly, civilizedly, and modernly, together with Vinh city, becoming the key economic growth pole of the province. On June 14, 2021, the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee issued Resolution No. 01-NQ/TU on "Building and developing Cua Lo town to 2025 and the following years" with the key goal of developing Cua Lo town rapidly and sustainably, together with Vinh city, becoming the growth locomotive and innovation center of Nghe An province and the North Central region.

Every year, Cua Lo Town always allocates budget for urban beautification. Photo: MH

To realize the above goal, Cua Lo town has identified 4 key economic spearheads. In addition to developing the tourism economy, there are also seaport economy; fisheries economy and fisheries logistics; agricultural economy. With fisheries and fisheries logistics, we will resolutely direct the improvement of exploitation and fishing capacity for people in Nghi Thuy ward; at the same time, restore the seafaring profession in Nghi Tan and Nghi Hai wards, which have long been in decline, through creating conditions for people to access capital, organizing vocational training classes, and forming a young workforce working in the seafaring profession in Cua Lo.

This is a sustainable development direction, creating prosperity for the people and in reality, in the past 2 years, due to the impact of the Covid-19 epidemic, people working in tourism have been affected, but more than 2,800 workers working in fisheries and fisheries services in Nghi Thuy ward still have a stable income. Regarding the agricultural economy in Cua Lo, it does not follow the output but the direction of clean, organic production with high economic value to serve tourism through linkages with businesses and households for production.

Based on the main internal strength of Cua Lo, Resolution No. 01-NQ/TU issued by the Provincial Party Standing Committee also clearly affirmed the common responsibility of the province for Cua Lo to develop in the right position, together with Vinh city to become the growth engine of the province. That responsibility is clearly demonstrated through the inclusion in the medium-term investment plan, period 2021 - 2026, a number of key projects, such as the project to upgrade Binh Minh road; build new roads to ports 5 and 6; continue to implement the wastewater project in the town. The Provincial People's Committee has also developed a specific mechanism for the town to submit to the Provincial People's Council for decision at the next session.