The northern mountain province of Cao Bang has rich natural resources, good weather, and diverse ethnic cultures.
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Cao Bang has focused on three areas of economic development: a sustainable tourism and service industry, smart agriculture and the production and processing of local agriculture specialties, and border trade.
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Developing its transportation infrastructure is a top. Over the last 5 years the province has built 2,200 km of roads and 47 bridges to carry goods and passengers to other provinces, districts, tourist sites, border gates, and remote areas.
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Cao Bang city has a new look that includes spacious new buildings, wider roads, a river dyke, and parks.
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Kim Dong pedestrian road and the Night Cuisine Market are city highlights.
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Tourist destinations like Ban Gioc waterfall, Phja Oắc-Phja Đén National Park, Ngườm Pục cave, and Ngườm Ngao cave have been refurbished to attract more tourists.
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With its magnificent stone mountains, waterfalls, lakes, and forests, Non Nuoc Cao Bang Geographical Park was recognized by UNESCO as a Global Geopark in 2018. It’s causing Cao Bang’s tourism to soar. The province has 3 national heritages, hundreds of historical sites, and traditional Tay, Nung, Mong, and Dao cultural festivals.
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Cao Bang province has trained thousands of people for jobs in community tourism hotel service.
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The province welcomed 5 million tourists between 2016 and 2020 and earned approximately 52 million USD from tourism. People’s living conditions have improved and the annual per capita income is now 740 USD.
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Cao Bang’s 333km border with China has created a busy border economy. The Tra Linh-Long Ping border gate has been upgraded to an international border gate. A new Ta Lung border gate and Đồng Đăng-Trà Lĩnh highway are being built to make Cao Bang an international transit hub connected to the port of Hai Phong.
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The Cao Bang border economic zone has attracted 74 Vietnamese and foreign investment projects, which have generated good jobs for local people.
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One of Cao Bang’s strategic goals is promoting local specialties like Nguyen Binh vermicelli, Trung Khanh chestnuts, Thach Han pearls, and Tra Linh tangerines, beef, and black pork.
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Cao Bang province has established mass production zones, like the TH Group’s high-tech dairy farming and milk processing project in Quang Hoa district with its herd of 10,000 cows and a milk processing plant with a capacity of 49,000 tons per year.
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Three strategic breakthroughs have resolved Cao Bang's obstructions, promoted its advantages, and created a premise for the province to advance.
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