According to the Hanoi Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, Hanoi now has 1,350 craft villages, among which 331 are officially recognized for their traditional crafts by the municipal’s People's Committee. The locality houses 47 out of the nation’s total 52 traditional crafts.
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| A sophisticated product of the Chuon Ngo mother-of-pearl craft village (Phu Xuyen district). (Photo: CPV) |
Among all the craft villages in Hanoi, many famous ones attract the attention of tourists, such as: Van Phuc Silk (Ha Dong district), Bat Trang Ceramics (Gia Lam district), Phu Vinh Rattan and Bamboo Weaving (Chuong My district), Quat Dong Embroidery, Ha Thai Lacquerware, Thuy Ung Horn Combs (Thuong Tin district), and Chuon Ngo mother-of-pearl inlay (Phu Xuyen district).
In recent years, the city has focused on and implemented plans for developing famous crafts and craft villages, building plans to preserve and develop crafts and craft villages until 2030; building programs and projects to develop craft villages associated with tourism; implementing the OCOP program; building souvenir products with the characteristics of each craft village and tourist destination.
Hanoi’s traditional craft villages have long-standing cultural values and creativity through each typical handicraft product. In addition, tourists to Hanoi’s craft villages can not only admire the landscape of a typical Northern Delta village with banyan trees, wells and communal houses, but visit production sites, directly interact with craftsmen, and participate in some stages of product production. This creates the unique appeal of craft village tourism.
Over the past years, Hanoi has issued many policies to support the development of craft villages through the effective implementation of national trade promotion activities and local industrial promotion programs, positively contributing to the transformation of economic structure, labor structure, job creation in suburban rural areas, promoting local economic development, and increasing export turnover value. Craft villages contribute about 8-10% of the total export turnover in the area, with nearly 200 craft villages achieving revenue of 10-50 billion VND a year, some craft villages earning revenue of 10,000-25,000 billion VND a year.
From the achieved results, Hanoi will continue to further develop tourism in association with preserving and developing cultural values, building sustainable new-style rural areas and traditional craft villages in order to realize the goal of comprehensively developing tourism in the capital in terms of both scale and quality of services./.