Surprised Buon Ma Thuot: The more urbanized, the richer the identity

Mr. Vu Van Hung, Chairman of the City People’s Committee said, Buon Ma Thuot was developed with the orientation of Ecology-Identity-Intelligence and has internal resources to build the city to reach the expected stature.
Buon Ma Thuot is a historical place – associated with the victory of Buon Ma Thuot, the opening of the general offensive and uprising, in the spring of 1975, leading to the complete liberation of the South and reunification of the country on April 30. 1975.

Buon Ma Thuot is also the source of Vietnamese coffee beans, the economic nucleus of the Central Highlands. After 46 years of construction and development, Buon Ma Thuot gradually becomes the central urban area of ​​the Central Highlands, both vibrant, youthful, modern, and deeply rooted in history and traditional culture. Shop of gratitude – city of sincerity Buon AKô Dhong, Tan Loi ward, Buon Ma Thuot city, in the days approaching the 46th anniversary of Buon Ma Thuot’s liberation, became more and more bustling. Outside, cars carrying tourists parked in a long line. Inside is wood, is bamboo, is filled with cement; is the sound of human voices, machine noises under construction. Dozens of traditional Ede houses on stilts are being erected, interspersed with mossy ones surrounded by green tea fences, multi-colored hibiscus flowers, walled bushes and mausoleums. purple flowers are in bloom. The nearly three-acre plot of land belonging to the Ancient Elder of the village Ama H’Rin, the founder of AKo Dhong village, is probably the busiest construction site. The thorny bamboos from the Buon Don forest, almost as big as a thigh, were piled up next to the fence. Large bundles of le, a type of bamboo as small as the handle of a hoe, are filled in a floating tank with a tarpaulin. Ama Jenni, the youngest son-in-law of the late village elder Ama H’Rin, with the muscular body of a descendant of Dam San, was sweating profusely with a group of workers who built large cedarwood pillars that one person hugged, forming columns on stilts . He said, on this mold, an architectural complex, mainly the traditional Ede, is being restored, with a system of valuable wooden columns such as katchi and incense; wooden floors covered with bamboo and bamboo walls, just like the houses that Ama H’Rin built more than 60 years ago. Seeing customers admiring the scale and curious about the purpose, Ama Jenni calmly: “Nothing, Ako Dhong is a rich merchant”! He also revealed that this is not a tourist area, nor a big family’s house, but built according to the wishes of ADuon H’Riu – the wife of the late village elder Ama H’Rin, in memory of the person who had openly give birth and shape the identity of the merchant. “The Ede people don’t like to be too calculating economically. If you feel you need to do it, do it. To let their children and grandchildren see how their forefathers have devoted themselves.” AKô Dhong, in Ede language means “watershed”, because it was established at the upstream of 6 streams: Ea Giang, Ea Dung, Ea Ding, Ea Pii, Thun M’nung and Ea Nuol. The source of water flows all year round and the green watershed strip of 4 seasons, the long houses built and embellished for 3 generations, along with rich traditional culture, has now become the tourist center of Buon Ma Thuot. . Investors in the province, outside the province, have invested here in modern restaurants and hotels, while the children of the Ede people have risen up with their beautiful, deep and sincere qualities. Like Ms. Hlen Niê, from “fairy house”, “fairy garden” left by her parents, she built Arul coffee shop which is also full of “fairy tales”, famous throughout the coffee capital of Ban Me. , is found by many tourists near and far. Although affirming economic benefits from Arul Coffee, for H’Len Niê, Ede culture is even more important. “Culture itself is a beauty, a separate thing, nothing can be exchanged. If you open a shop with only the goal of making money, you will lose culture in return.” Less than a howl from Arul Coffee, Mrs. H’Kjap Niê has also built Ako Ea tourist area, with thousands of square meters of community space, many souvenir stalls, and many accommodation rooms built of natural materials. Nature… All filled with flowers, green forest, coffee aroma, murmuring stream, T’rung guitar and throbbing gongs. Only 3 years of operation, but A Ko Ea has become an ecological and cultural address for families in Buon Ma Thuot to come every weekend, a familiar address for many delegations from other provinces. . Celebrating the 46th anniversary of national reunification, Ms. H’Kjap Niê quietly added to the bookshelf in each room a set of Vietnamese history books and accelerated preparations for the three-region culinary festival, right on the 30th. 4/4 and 1/5. “After 46 years of reunification, Dak Lak has 46-47 ethnic brothers residing together. Therefore, I want people to come here to see the history, see the tradition; experience natural living and see the beautiful customs of the Ede. Particularly on big holidays, there are always suitable activities for a large community to gather and share,” said Ms. H’Kjap. Green city – fragrant city Buon Ma Thuot with a bright future, a central city in the Central Highlands. Mr. Nguyen Van Toan is a photographer with nearly 30 years of seniority at Buon Ma Thuot Junction, so he witnessed every small change of the city. According to Mr. Toan, in recent years, Buon Ma Thuot has urbanized very quickly, causing many people to worry that architectural works will overwhelm nature. But the reality is the opposite, the more urbanized, the greener, cleaner and more beautiful Buon Ma Thuot is. “In the past, around this Junction 6 were full of small buildings, pressed close to the road, causing a feeling of narrowness. Then the city rebuilt with buildings from 6 to 18 floors, but deep inside, so the street is very spacious. The ground floor buildings in the Cultural Center campus were demolished by the province, so there is more space. In general, Buon Ma Thuot Junction has very beautiful architecture, very large space, lots of green trees, very beautiful. Guests like to take souvenir photos in this area,” said Mr. Nguyen Van Toan. Along the streets of Buon Ma Thuot, an impressive highlight for locals and visitors is the populations of trees and flowers. The temporary markets, the wasteland corners of the inner city of Buon Ma Thuot, have all been renovated into flower gardens. The fully functional Analog TV tower was dismantled by the province, built into a square with a lot of sports equipment, for the masses to freely roam and exercise. Often taking her young daughter for a walk every afternoon, Ms. Tran Thi Yen, Tu An ward, Buon Ma Thuot city feels satisfied: “The city is full of green parks; The air here is clean and safe. I really enjoy living here.” Despite being a young city, rising from the remnants of war and the red dust of the sky, in a short time, Buon Ma Thuot has reached its sophistication in development. If a house is built high, it must be deep to avoid confinement; Every street corner, every flowerbed, park, square shows the philosophy of green development, towards community benefits. And right in the center, an empty street where drug problems were difficult to handle before, has been radically changed when it was built into a land of knowledge and fragrance. Buon Ma Thuot Coffee and Book Street, after 4 years of construction, has become an interesting meeting place for businessmen; where the writers and poets of Dak Lak organize the launch of new books, where tourists and the public inside and outside the province relax and settle down. According to Mr. Hoang Danh Huu, Director of Miss Ede Coffee Company, a member of the Coffee Book Street, this place is now almost an “exchange floor”, a place to organize meetings and promote many people. Commercial transactions were rekindled, many investment cooperations formed and many startup ideas were implemented. “The government has an open policy for businesses to help spread the reading culture, local culture and coffee culture. That is a success,” said Mr. Huu. Bright future “Brilliant” is not an exaggeration of the future of Buon Ma Thuot. That future is not only reflected in issued policies, such as the Politburo’s Conclusion No. 60 in 2009 on building Buon Ma Thuot into a central urban area in the Central Highlands; Conclusion No. 67 of 2019 on economic and social development of Buon Ma Thuot or in the idea of ​​​​Buon Ma Thuot-Nha Trang Expressway. The future of the city is reflected in what has been and is being built: Ea Tam Lake in the city center and East-West Boulevard, connecting Buon Ma Thuot Airport with the city center. In particular, Lake Ea Tam under construction, 35 hectares wide, one and a half times larger than Xuan Huong Da Lat Lake, will “paint dragons and eyes” for the highland city, a great highlight for prosperous feng shui, bringing vitality. for dozens of new urban clusters. East-West Boulevard not only shortens the distance from the center to the harbour, but also helps Buon Ma Thuot show off its rich beauty. 8km of the boulevard, in turn, leads people through one of the oldest precious timber forests in Vietnam, with varieties of Christmas, teak, star, planted in the 194x; through the fragrant rice fields of the Muong, Thai, and Tay people opened and cultivated; through immense coffee and durian gardens, through the largest general hospital in the Central Highlands… Mr. Vu Van Hung, Chairman of the People’s Committee of Buon Ma Thuot City. Mr. Vu Van Hung, Chairman of the City People’s Committee said, Buon Ma Thuot was developed with the orientation of Ecology-Identity-Intelligence and has internal resources to build the city to reach the expected stature. “Buon Ma Thuot is the coffee capital of the country and also a major coffee address in the world. There are research institutes on agro-forestry, hygiene and epidemiology; There is a university in the national key group, which is the center of plant varieties of the Central and Central Highlands” – Mr. Vu Van Hung confidently From the economic aspect, Mr. Vu Van Hung affirmed, along with the key projects of the state that have been surveyed and invested, many investors, enterprises and large corporations have followed each other. to Buon Ma Thuot. Dozens of large and small projects, with a total cost of hundreds of thousands of billion VND proposed by private investors, help Buon Ma Thuot to raise its wings and become a radiant city in the middle of the Central Highlands. ./.