On December 20, at the headquarters of the Chuyên Mỹ Commune People’s Committee, the Hanoi Department of Agriculture and Environment, in coordination with the Chuyên Mỹ Commune People’s Committee and the Hanoi Handicraft and Craft Village Association, organized a workshop entitled “Solutions for Preserving and Developing Craft Villages in Connection with Tourism and Digital Transformation.”
On the evening of December 20, at the Thang Long Imperial Citadel (Hanoi), the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment, in coordination with the Hanoi People’s Committee, solemnly opened the Vietnam OCOP Festival 2025 under the theme “Vietnam – Convergence and Dissemination.”
For the first time, Hanoi is developing a comprehensive strategy that links preferential support mechanisms with the goal of creating an innovation ecosystem, aiming to position craft villages as a new driver of cultural industries, tourism, and rural economic development in the coming decade.
The craft village of Tich Giang is named after the Tich river that flows through the commune. The local economy is primarily agricultural, with 350 ha of production land inside and outside the Tich river dyke. In 2022, the flower and ornamental plant craft of Tich Giang was officially recognized as a Hanoi Craft Village.
Building on its strong presence at previous editions of the International Handicraft Fair Artigiano—especially the successes of 2023 and 2024, Vietnam continues to stand out at the 29th annual event (AF L'ARTIGIANO 2025), held from December 6 to 14, 2025, at the Milan Exhibition Centre.
Son Dong Craft Village (Son Dong Commune, Hoai Duc District) is one of Hanoi’s renowned centers of handicrafts, especially famous for Buddhist statue carving, the production of ritual objects, and traditional wood carving. The village’s products are highly diverse, including Buddha statues, saint statues, horizontal lacquered boards and parallel sentences, altars, thrones, palanquins, and more.
The Son Dong woodcarving and lacquer craft village (Hoai Duc, Hanoi) has recently been proposed by the Hanoi Department of Agriculture and Environment to participate in the World Crafts Cities Network, according to Official Dispatch No. 6262/SNNMT-PTNT issued on 29 August 2025. At present, the locality is completing its application dossier for submission to the World Crafts Council for consideration and recognition.
On 17 November, Chuyen My Commune (Phu Xuyen District, Hanoi) welcomed nearly 200 international delegates to visit and work as part of the appraisal program to recognize the Chuyen My mother-of-pearl inlay and lacquer craft village as a member of the World Creative Craft Cities Network in 2025, organized by the World Crafts Council (WCC).
On the evening of November 15, the People’s Committee of Chuyen My Commune, in coordination with the Hanoi Department of Agriculture & Environment, held the opening ceremony of the Craft Village Products and Safe Agricultural Food Fair at Chuon Thuong Hamlet Stadium.
Facing the risk of decline among many traditional craft villages, Hanoi organized the workshop “Solutions for Preserving and Developing Craft Villages in Connection with Tourism…” to seek ways to transform traditional values into new growth drivers for the rural economy and tourism.
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