Promoting advantages, making Cua Lo one of the key economic growth poles of Nghe An province
In August 1994, along with the birth of Cua Lo town, the Party Committee of Cua Lo town was established, leading the people to inherit and promote the revolutionary tradition of the homeland. In each historical period, under the close leadership and direction of the Party Committee of the town, cadres, party members and people of Cua Lo have united, unanimously overcome difficulties, made creative efforts, and strived to excellently complete all tasks.
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In August 1994, along with the birth of Cua Lo town, the Party Committee of Cua Lo town was established, leading the people to inherit and promote the revolutionary tradition of their homeland. In each historical period, under the close leadership and direction of the Party Committee of the town, cadres, party members and people of Cua Lo have united, unanimously overcome difficulties, made creative efforts, and strived to excellently complete all tasks.
Le Thanh Long
Permanent Deputy Secretary of the City Party Committee,
Chairman of People's Council of Cua Lo town
• August 27, 2024
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Cua Lo - Nghe An is a land of "talented people", not only is it the place where "the furnace of heaven and earth forges the foundation of mandarins and generals", arousing pride in a land rich in potential, with people who have made great history for the nation, but this land is also considered a "green pearl" of the North Central Coast, striving to develop.
The first village founder of Cua Lo was Nguyen Hoi (father of Nguyen Xi). On his family's land, Nguyen Hoi recruited people to establish two salt fields in Thuong Xa and Yen Luong and became rich (these salt fields no longer exist today, due to the alluvial soil gradually filling them up).
Nguyen Xi, with great merit, was awarded by King Le Thai To with more than 5,000 acres of land, located between Cua Lo and Cua Hoi today. The families came to settle and reclaim land to live in Cua Lo according to different time periods such as: Che family, Phung family, Nguyen family, Hoang family, Le family, Tran family,... Each family has many different branches and branches. Over the years, the population grew more and more crowded, forming villages and communes to build a stable life.
Although life is very hard, education is still considered important by the people here. Through research in the Cua Lo area, Van Loc village alone has had many people who passed the imperial examinations: Hoang Van Cu, passed the Bachelor's degree in 1903, passed the Vice-Chancellor's degree in Giap Thin, Thanh Thai 16th year (1904). The Nguyen family has a clan, three generations of grandfathers, fathers, and grandchildren successively passed the imperial examinations through the dynasties: the grandfather was Nguyen Huy Triem, passed the Bachelor's degree in Ky Mao year, Gia Long 18th year (1819), became an An Sat official, then the Doc Hoc position; the father was Nguyen Dao, passed the Bachelor's degree in Mau Ty year, Dong Khanh 3rd year (1888); the son was Nguyen Huy Nhu, passed the Third Class Doctorate in Binh Thin year, Khai Dinh 1st year (1916), became a teacher in Thanh Hoa...; Regarding good doctors, in ancient times, Van Loc village alone had famous physician Hoang Nguyen Cat, Imperial physician Hoang Nguyen Le, Chief Imperial physician Pham Van Du,...
In 1986, Cua Lo town was established with 14,532 people (based on the area and population of Nghi Tan and Nghi Thuy communes, 82 hectares of natural area of Nghi Thu commune and 15 hectares of natural area of Nghi Hop commune). On August 29, 1994, the Government issued Decree No. 113-CP establishing Cua Lo town under Nghe An province (based on Cua Lo town and 4 communes: Nghi Thu, Nghi Huong, Nghi Hoa, Nghi Hai; 50 hectares of natural area, 2,991 people of Nghi Quang commune, Nghi Loc district). After its establishment, the town had many advantages in terms of transportation, infrastructure, electricity system, roads, schools, and stations. The expansion of space from the town to the town was organized in parallel with the strong development of key economic sectors in the area, in which the main focus was on developing marine tourism and service industries serving marine tourism.
The tradition of patriotism and revolution is one of the outstanding and valuable features that need to be preserved and promoted by the people of Cua Lo town. In particular, during the two resistance wars against French colonialism and American imperialism, Cua Lo sea area was one of the key areas of destruction by American imperialism. Under the leadership of the Party committees at all levels, the army and people of Nghi Loc district in general and Cua Lo in particular have performed well the role of the rear of the great southern front, the front of the northern rear with the spirit of "Not a pound of rice is missing, not a soldier is missing", "All for the front, all to defeat the American invaders"; with the spirit of "Fighting for the Americans to leave, fighting for the puppets to fall" for the beloved South, responding to the movement to support the southern front, the army and people of Cua Lo have actively participated in supporting human and material resources for the southern battlefield.
With outstanding achievements in fighting against the US and saving the country, many units and individuals in the locality of Cua Lo town have been awarded the title of Hero of the People's Armed Forces by the State, many mothers have been awarded the title of Heroic Vietnamese Mother. That is the pride and great honor of the Party Committee and people of the town.
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Not only is it the place where “the furnace of heaven and earth forged the foundation of the great generals”, arousing pride in a brave and resilient land, Cua Lo also has advantages in terms of landscape and tangible and intangible cultural values along with rich and diverse natural resources, a land rich in potential, identified as a key area to promote tourism development of Nghe An province and Vietnam's sea tourism.
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 a 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 to 2025 and the following years" with the key goal of developing Cua Lo Town rapidly and sustainably, together with Vinh city, becoming a growth locomotive, an innovation and creativity center of Nghe An province and the North Central region.
To successfully implement the goals and tasks set forth by the 6th Town Party Congress, Cua Lo Town has identified four key economic sectors. In addition to developing the tourism economy, there are also seaport economy; fisheries economy and fisheries logistics; and agricultural economy. Therefore, right from the beginning of the term, the Town Party Committee has issued an Investment Attraction Program, focusing resources on building a synchronous economic infrastructure, gradually modernizing it to meet the requirements of integration and development.
Implement the Project on Application of Science and Technology in Seafood Exploitation and Processing and Clean Agricultural Production to Create Products for Tourism in the 2021-2025 Period and the Following Years in accordance with Decision No. 3434/QD-UBND dated December 31, 2020 of the Provincial People's Committee and the Project on Sustainable Tourism Development Associated with Marine Economic Development to 2025, with a Vision to 2030. Accordingly, the Town People's Committee supports 10 million VND for products meeting 3-star OCOP standards; 15 million VND for products meeting 4-star OCOP standards and 20 million VND for products meeting 5-star OCOP standards. Therefore, as of the first 6 months of 2024, the town has more than 15 products recognized as 4-star OCOP, with 8 more products participating in the OCOP classification assessment.
The City Party Committee resolutely directed the improvement of exploitation and fishing capacity for the people of Nghi Thuy ward, at the same time, restored the seafaring profession in 2 wards (Nghi Tan, Nghi Hai) that has long been in decline through creating conditions for people to access capital, organizing vocational training classes, and forming a young labor force working in the seafaring profession in Cua Lo.
One of the outstanding marks of Cua Lo town in the period of implementing the 6th Resolution of the Town Party Committee is that it has done well in attracting investment, focusing resources on building a synchronous economic infrastructure, gradually modernizing, promoting economic development, town tourism, meeting the requirements of integration and development. In the period of 2021 - 2023, the total investment source for social development of the town is 23,910 billion VND. With this capital, the town has focused on directing the construction of key projects according to the Resolution of the Town People's Council, building a medium-term public investment plan for the period of 2021 - 2025, along with investment from the province, the central government and enterprises, specifically in 2021, Cua Hoi bridge, coastal road, Cua Hoi entertainment area project was launched...
Throughout 2023, Cua Lo town is a large construction site bustling with the sound of machinery, speeding up progress in creating a new face for the coastal city, in which, the 3.5km long "Cua Hoi - Ngu Island" cable car project with a capacity of 1,500 passengers/hour has been completed. This project connects the multifunctional Cua Hoi entertainment park complex on an area of 195.5 hectares, with a total investment of 4,000 billion VND, has become an important highlight, contributing to creating a new face for the coastal city. In addition, the town also upgraded and expanded Binh Minh Street, 7.54km long, with an investment capital of 310 billion VND, built a sea embankment combined with a 4.3km coastal walking street, built a night market, a walking street on Nguyen Hue Street (Nghi Thu Ward) along with 7 check-in points at Lam Vien Beach, a night squid market on the way to Lan Chau Island and a fishing village in Nghi Thuy Ward to serve visitors.
In addition to key projects, the town is continuing to implement 15 technical infrastructure projects such as: Lighting system, sidewalks, drainage ditches, tree planting on a series of roads... By the end of 2023, projects of investors and provincial budgets in the area such as: Cua Hoi entertainment area project, coastal road, Vinh - Cua Lo Boulevard, Sao Nam road, longitudinal road No. 5, high-end apartment and villa project combined with trade and services and National coastal road (phase 2 through Nghi Tan ward)... have been completed on schedule. And Cua Lo town in 2024 has had a breakthrough with a new, orderly, modern face..
The cultural and social fields continue to receive attention, the tradition of studiousness, good study and academic achievements, and the quality of education increasingly affirms its position among the top units of the province. The work of building the Party and the political system is focused on with many good models and creative ways in ideological work, mass mobilization work, work of building, consolidating and developing the Party organization, developing Party members...
In particular, the town has built a team of cadres at all levels who are dynamic, creative, enthusiastic, responsible for their homeland and devoted to the people... National defense and security work has been maintained stably, creating a safe and healthy environment for people and businesses to develop.
After 30 years of construction and development (August 29, 1994 - August 29, 2024), from a town with the smallest area in the country, backward infrastructure, economic and social infrastructure that has not kept up with development needs, the material and spiritual life of the people is still low, under the leadership of the Provincial Party Committee, the investment attention of the People's Committee of Nghe An province, the direction of the Executive Committee of the Town Party Committee of all terms, the management of the government and the consensus and efforts of the entire Party and people, the Party Committee and people of Cua Lo town have focused on overcoming all difficulties and challenges, uniting, being dynamic and promoting the potentials and advantages of the locality, taking advantage of the attention, help and investment of all levels and sectors to build the town to develop more and more, achieving many important achievements in all fields. Becoming the first coastal tourist city in the country, an attractive destination for tourists from near and far, Cua Lo town is becoming one of the key economic growth poles of the province.
The Party Committee and people of Cua Lo town have focused on overcoming all difficulties and challenges, uniting, being dynamic and promoting the local potentials and advantages to build the town to develop more and more...
The glorious achievements of the Party Committee of Cua Lo town over the past 30 years have affirmed the correctness and creativity in the comprehensive renovation of the country, the leadership and management role of the Party committees at all levels and the great solidarity strength of the people in the area. All activities of the Party originate from the aspirations of the people, the strength of the Party lies in its close connection with the people. Therefore, the Party Committee of the town always thoroughly grasps the Party's offensive ideology, identifying the Party's leadership as an important factor and a key factor determining all successes.
On June 4, 2024, the Prime Minister issued Decision No. 475/QD-TTg on recognizing the expanded Vinh city, Nghe An province as meeting the criteria of a class I urban area, in which Cua Lo town was merged into Vinh city. This is an important event for the Party Committee, government and people of the town, both a great opportunity for the development of Cua Lo town in general and Cua Lo tourism in particular; and poses greater challenges for the current Party Committee and government of Cua Lo town to be more determined and make more efforts to meet the requirements of being a part of the large Vinh city with rich development potential.
Cua Lo enters a new phase with new opportunities and fortunes.
