TDM to build cultural works in line with local development

Yesterday afternoon (March 28), Nguyen Van Loi, member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of provincial Party Committee, Head of provincial National Assembly Deputy Delegation had a working session with leaders of Thu Dau Mot (TDM) city on the implementation of a number of projects in the city’s cultural and social fields. The event was attended by leaders of provincial People's Committee, relevant departments and sectors.

Proposal of the city

Reporting to the delegation on a plan to build the memorial site for Junior Doctor Nguyen Sinh Sac, Nguyen Khoa Hai, Director of provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism said that after being assigned the task of coordinating with relevant agencies and units in researching, surveying, supplementing planning, collecting relevant documents and drafting a project to build the memorial site for Junior Doctor Nguyen Sinh Sac at ​​Hoi Khanh pagoda, provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism has worked with relevant departments and sectors to determine the location and investment scale of the project. The department has also coordinated with Ho Chi Minh city University of Architecture to outline two investment options to build the memorial site.

Nguyen Van Loi, member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of provincial Party Committee, Head of provincial National Assembly Deputy Delegation speaks at the meeting

Accordingly, the option 1 of 4.07 hectares is estimated at about VND 2.8trillion, with items of museum, restoration of the prototype of Uncle Ho's father's house, restoration of the prototype of Uncle Ho's house, teaching house re-enacted, pharmacy re-enacted, temple - epitaph, statue, the garden of statues re-enacting the life of Junior Doctor Nguyen Sinh Sac... The option 2 of 2.47 hectares is estimated at about VND1.8 trillion with items like the option 1. According to leader of provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, after studying and analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of the two options, the department unanimously proposed the option 2 because its cost for compensation and resettlement support is lower than the option 1 with high feasibility.

However, speaking at the meeting, Nguyen Thu Cuc, Chairman of TDM city’s People's Committee said that in the overall adjustment of the city's general planning to 2040 and the adjustment of zoning planning for wards, the city realized that it was possible to arrange a more suitable memorial area for construction. The city is going to swap with a number of State agencies on Yersin street. These are all public land, so they will save a lot of investment costs as well as ensuring the beauty and convenience of traffic. For agencies within the project, they will be arranged by the city and the province in suitable places.

The opinions expressed at the meeting all agreed with the proposal of the city and emphasized that this is a very reasonable proposal that makes use of the old headquarters of the province while saving investment budget and ensuring the size, aesthetics of the project as well as convenient transportation.

Cultural complex in park to be developed

Reporting to the delegation of provincial leaders on a number of contents related to the planning of Thanh Le Cultural Park, representative of TDM city said that Thanh Le Cultural Park was formerly known as TDM park managed by TDM town’s People's Committee (now being TDM city’s People's Committee), approved by provincial People's Committee about the functional zoning plan at the Decision No. 945/QD-CT dated April 10, 2000. From 2007 to 2018, TDM park was managed by Thanh Le Import-Export Trading Corporation (briefly called Thanh Le Company). Since late 2018, Thanh Le Company and TDM city’s People's Committee have implemented the work of receiving and handing over the park. So far, the work of receiving and handing over the landmark of TDM park has been completed. After determining the return value of the investment and renovating works on the land in accordance with the current state of TDM park, the city’s People's Committee will contact provincial Department of Natural Resources and Environment to set up legal procedures for land allocation, grant the certificate of land use right of Thu Dau Mot park to the city’s People's Committee for management under regulations. Tran Si Nam, Vice- Chairman of TDM city’s People's Committee said that Thanh Le Company and the city’s People's Committee are currently coordinating to handle problems to speed up the process of implementation of the handover of the park.

Speaking at the meeting, Nguyen Van Loi, member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of provincial Party Committee, Head of provincial National Assembly Deputy Delegation emphasized the importance of planning in general and planning for development in the  fields of  culture, education, health, physical training and sports... of TDM city in particular and Binh Duong province in general needed to plan for cultural development commensurate with the local economic development.

For some specific issues, Mr. Loi  said that TDM city and relevant units need to calculate and accelerate the handover of the park to put it into operation. After completing the handover, relevant units urgently plan, proceed to build and develop TDM park into a cultural complex, including the local history museum, ceramic museum, lacquer museum, library...He noted that the construction of museums and conservation work here must deliberate open spaces, not just narrowing in rooms and houses, thereby building up a large-scale park not only serving people of the city, but also people of the whole province.

As for Junior Doctor Nguyen Sinh Sac’s memorial site project, an educational work of the tradition of "When drinking water, remember its source" and preserving the national cultural identity, provincial Party Committee Secretary said that leaders and people of Binh Duong province in general and Thu Dau Mot province in particular are deeply aware of the purpose and sacred meaning of the construction of Junior Doctor Nguyen Sinh Sac’s memorial site. This is an uninterrupted work to serve visitors in association with preserving and promoting the value of the local historical relics. He asked for provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism to further coordinate with relevant departments, sectors and TDM city to consider and calculate appropriate investment options before submitting them to competent authorities for decision.

Regarding the proposal of TDM city to exchange the headquarters of a number of State agencies to create land fund for construction of the memorial site, provincial Party Committee Secretary suggested relevant units and the city to carefully study before implementing this proposal under the law.

At the meeting, leaders of TDM city reported on the use of areas that were the former headquarters of departments and sectors after moving into provincial Integrated Administration Center. As of now, TDM city has arranged the above areas for a number of agencies and units. The city also proposed to use some areas for construction of green parks, auction of building high-class commercial centers... TDM city and provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism also proposed to build some large-scale works, including a standard football ground, a theater...

As for Junior Doctor Nguyen Sinh Sac’s memorial site project, an educational work of the tradition of "When drinking water, remember its source" and preserving the national cultural identity, provincial Party Committee Secretary said that leaders and people of Binh Duong province in general and Thu Dau Mot province in particular are deeply aware of the purpose and sacred meaning of the construction of Junior Doctor Nguyen Sinh Sac’s memorial site. This is an uninterrupted work to serve visitors in association with preserving and promoting the value of the local historical relics. He asked for provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism to further coordinate with relevant departments, sectors and TDM city to consider and calculate appropriate investment options before submitting them to competent authorities for decision.

Reported by Tri Dung-Translated by Kim Tin