Nha Trang Bay not Khanh Hoa’s asset

Nha Trang Bay not Khanh Hoa’s asset

Deputy Minister Tran Chien Thang. VietNamNet Bridge – Deputy Minister of Culture and Information Tran Chien Thang said that Khanh Hoa province was not a kingdom and Nha Trang Bay was not its asset. A successful social-economic model never accepts development at any cost. What do you think about Khanh Hoa wanting to remove Nha Trang Bay from the list of national landscapes? This is perhaps the only case in the world. The whole world is trying to preserve and have their landscapes and heritage sites recognised by reputed national and international organisations and to keep the recognitions. Only Khanh Hoa province doesn’t want that. I haven’t directly heard about it from any official of Khanh Hoa but I think when they made that statement they forgot that their province was part of the nation, not a kingdom, and Nha Trang Bay is not Khanh Hoa’s asset, but the asset of the nation, even of mankind. Many local officials and investors have complained that it is very difficult to do business in areas where there are many national relics, let alone development. What do you think about it? Why don’t they feel lucky that Vietnam has many relics? We have had many landscapes and valuable heritages but they have been heavily damaged because they have not been preserved properly for a long time. It is time to preserve the remaining things. The contradiction between preservation and development is a problem of every country but experiences from the most successful social-economic models show that they never accept development at any cost. Developing to let the environment be destroyed and to bury traditional values – so what would development mean? If Khanh Hoa officially asks for the withdrawal of Nha Trang Bay from the list of national landscapes, what will the ministry do? As I’ve said that there is no precedent for this case and Nha Trang Bay is not the asset of Khanh Hoa, the ministry will make public all information about the case and hold a referendum. But I still hope that the ministry will not have to do that job. Paul Stoll, General Director of the Celadon International Tourism Service Consulting Company: Khanh Hoa should not think of immediate benefit: I think Khanh Hoa’s administration should not think of immediate benefit to neglect the potential that not all localities own. During the development process, it should know what it wants to achieve in the future. If selecting a long-term development plan, it can’t immediately gain profit. Economic success can’t be measured by money, but the cleanness of the living environment and the happier lives of the people. What is the value of economic development if the environment becomes worse? If only focusing on economic development, would the environment and scenery of Nha Trang Bay be better than now? (Source: Tuoi Tre)