From workshop to experience: Khanh Hoa spreads green vision for the future

On September 11, in Nha Trang, Tuoi Tre newspaper coordinated with Khanh Hoa Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism to organize a workshop "To make Khanh Hoa a comprehensive green destination".

Provincial and central leaders and guests launched joint action for a green Khanh Hoa - Photo: QUANG DINH

This is an activity within the framework of the Green Vietnam 2025 project, initiated by Tuoi Tre newspaper and the Vietnam Packaging Recycling Alliance and its accompanying units (from 2024). Attending the program were Mr. Nghiem Xuan Thanh - member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of Khanh Hoa Provincial Party Committee and many experts, scientists , specialists and leaders of Khanh Hoa province, departments, branches and businesses inside and outside the province.

Mr. Nghiem Xuan Thanh - member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of Khanh Hoa Provincial Party Committee at the Green Experience Day booth in the Green Vietnam project organized by Tuoi Tre newspaper on September 11 - Photo: TRAN HOAI

Mr. Nghiem Xuan Thanh acknowledged and highly appreciated the significance and objectives of the Workshop "To make Khanh Hoa a comprehensive green destination" and the Green Experience Day organized by Tuoi Tre newspaper and the Vietnam Packaging Recycling Alliance.

Through the program, the Khanh Hoa Provincial Party Secretary hopes to spread the spirit of the program to the general public.

Khanh Hoa has built an action plan.

Journalist Tran Xuan Toan - Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Tuoi Tre Newspaper - Head of the Organizing Committee of the Green Vietnam project - Photo: QUANG DINH

Speaking at the opening of the workshop, journalist Tran Xuan Toan - deputy editor-in-chief of Tuoi Tre newspaper - shared that when talking about green Khanh Hoa, we need to look at other cities such as Singapore, Bali (Indonesia) or Costa Rica in Central America with garden models in the city. He emphasized the pillars to develop a green city, a green destination: "We need to see green development in addition to green living, including green infrastructure, green energy, green finance and green human resources".

Mr. Nguyen Long Bien - Vice Chairman of Khanh Hoa Provincial People's Committee - said that after the merger, Khanh Hoa province has become a land with rare advantages: long coastline, rich marine and island ecosystem, many famous bays and beaches. Khanh Hoa also possesses a treasure trove of unique cultural and historical heritage, from Champa culture to traditional works and festivals rich in identity.

This is the foundation for developing green tourism , green urban areas, green transportation, green energy and green community life, creating the driving force to turn Khanh Hoa into a center of sustainable development in the new period.

Mr. Nguyen Long Bien - Vice Chairman of Khanh Hoa Provincial People's Committee - Photo: QUANG DINH

According to Mr. Bien, green development is not only limited to tourism but also spreads to all fields: from urban planning, environmental management, transport infrastructure development, energy, technology to community education. "It is the inevitable path to improve competitiveness, create sustainable value and ensure long-term livelihoods for future generations," Mr. Bien said.

Director of Vietnam National Administration of Tourism Nguyen Trung Khanh - Photo: QUANG DINH

Mr. Nguyen Trung Khanh - Director of the National Tourism Administration (Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism) - shared: Reducing greenhouse gas emissions, developing green tourism, greening lifestyles, and sustainable consumption are major goals of the economy in general and Khanh Hoa in particular.

The Director of the National Tourism Administration pointed out the important goals that Khanh Hoa needs to achieve in the coming period: Develop green tourism comprehensively and with a specific plan. Khanh Hoa must increase the rate of renewable energy use, control emissions, and proactively respond to natural disasters and marine environmental incidents.

"The application of digital transformation is extremely important in building green destinations and promoting green infrastructure development. In addition, digital technology helps market green tourism. I hope Khanh Hoa becomes a green destination positioned on the world green tourism map with the set goals," said Mr. Nguyen Trung Khanh.

Three pillars of mutual support for Khanh Hoa's green transformation

Master Huynh Ho Dai Nghia - Faculty of International Relations, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Ho Chi Minh City - introduced at the workshop three mutually supportive pillars for Khanh Hoa's green transformation.

Green technology pillar: focus on applying science and technology to energy, infrastructure and production to reduce emissions, build smart cities using renewable energy, electric transportation and governance with real-time data. Public-private partnership (PPP) mechanisms need to be designed to attract large-scale projects, especially offshore wind power, along with risk-sharing measures to create confidence for investors.

Green finance pillars: greening credit and public spending, developing carbon markets, issuing green bonds, building climate investment funds, and establishing standards and information transparency mechanisms to ensure capital flows to sustainable projects.

Green human resources pillar: putting people and communities at the center of transformation. The goal is to form a team of experts - skilled workers for environmental technology and sustainable management; retrain officials and civil servants on green growth strategies; expand green education from primary to university; at the same time attract leading experts and foster the "green citizen" movement and volunteer teams.

The mutuality of the three pillars is evident: technology creates "green banking" projects for green finance to inject capital; green finance sponsors technology deployment and training; green human resources operate - supervise, ensure standards and social consensus.

The three-legged model helps Khanh Hoa create three green values

Mr. Pham Minh Duc - Central region operations director of Xanh SM Vietnam - emphasized that the "three-legged stool" model is helping Khanh Hoa create three green values, moving towards a model green point.

Green economy: the presence of Xanh SM opens up thousands of stable job opportunities for local people, drivers have labor contracts, social insurance, and sustainable income.

Green tourism: international tourists to Nha Trang consider "green experience" as a selection criterion; quiet, smoke-free electric vehicles become an impressive greeting right from Cam Ranh airport.

Green life: each trip by electric car reduces emissions and noise; on average 1km by electric car reduces 0.192kg CO₂, 1km by electric motorbike reduces 0.048kg CO₂.

“When multiplied by 1 million trips per day nationwide, we save more than 350,000 tonnes of CO₂, equivalent to the absorption capacity of nearly 16 million trees.”

According to Mr. Duc, Khanh Hoa has enough vision, tourism advantages and innovative spirit to lead green transformation, but success only comes from consensus: from macro-level decisions to green mobility choices of each citizen.

People and tourists unite towards the goal of Green Vietnam

Young people test drive electric motorbikes at Green Experience Day in Khanh Hoa on the morning of September 11 - Photo: QUANG DINH

At the Green Experience Day event in the Green Vietnam communication series, many people and tourists expressed the same wish to join hands to help Vietnam move towards sustainable green development. In the morning alone, more than 1,200 guests attended the Green Experience Day in Khanh Hoa with a series of activities, experiences and attractive incentives.

Journalist Tran Xuan Toan - Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Tuoi Tre Newspaper - said that this year is the second year of implementing the Green Vietnam program of Tuoi Tre Newspaper, Vietnam Packaging Recycling Alliance and related units.

"Through the program, we hope that each participating tourist will become an environmental ambassador, thereby accompanying and spreading the meaning of the program to everyone, contributing to the propaganda of current environmental issues, especially when participating in tourism activities at tourist destinations in Khanh Hoa in particular and the whole country in general," journalist Tran Xuan Toan shared.

Participating in the activities at the Green Experience Day, Mr. Tran Quoc Huy (32 years old, resident of Nha Trang ward) said that he especially loved the recycling workshop where people could experience making recycled items and exchange with each other about environmental protection messages.

"Through the program, I also hope that everyone will join hands to develop a sustainable green environment," Huy shared.

Ms. Salma (a tourist from Morocco) expressed her impression that Vietnam has such interesting green product experience programs. She said that she shared the program information on social networks to help bring the program's message to friends and tourists near and far.

Also at the Green Experience Day program in Khanh Hoa, besides booths such as seaweed, bird's nest, and tam phan soup, VinFast had the most impressive booth when displaying all of the company's motorbikes and electric bicycles.

At the program, VinFast staff also organized test drives for visitors of cars and electric motorbikes.

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