Apart from creating jobs and improving labourers’ income for the local people, traditional craft villages help preserve Hue’s cultural identity and boost the provincial tourism industry. 

In the next two years, the province will focus on enhancing production capacity of craft villages and small scale industries, improving product designs and creating new products to meet market demand. 

The province will also offer management and business skill courses for production establishments and enterprises. Besides, it will promote marketing and plan to create 1,500 new jobs in rural areas. 

In 2013, the Centre for Industrial Encouragement and Trade Promotion under the provincial Department of Industry and Trade has carried out 31 projects to foster industrial development in the locality, thus bringing jobs to about 2,500 labourers. Many incentives have been offered to enterprises and production units to help them expand production and business. 

Thua Thien- Hue has over 200 traditional craft villages including 88 handicraft villages.