Hai Phong is now a centrally-run city - it is a national grade 1 city with 7 districts (Ngo Quyen, Hong Bang, Le Chan, Duong Kinh, Do Son, Kien An and Hai An) There are 228 wards and townships (70 wards, 10 towns and 148 communes) in the two island districts (Cat Hai, Bach Long Vi) (Thuy Nguyen, Hai An, An Lao, Kien Thuy, Tien Lang and Vinh Bao).
Hai Phong has long been known as one of the largest seaports in the North, an important transportation hub with international, domestic and international waterways, railways and railways. The capital of Hanoi and the northern provinces; Is an important traffic hub of the Northern Key Economic Zone, on two corridors - a belt of economic cooperation between Vietnam and China. Therefore, in the socio-economic development strategy for the Red River delta, Hai Phong is identified as a growth pole of the northern dynamic economic region (Hanoi - Hai Phong - Quang Ninh); Is the center of economic - scientific - technical synthesis of the northern coastal area and is one of the development centers of the northern key economic region and the whole country (Decision 1448 / QD-TTg dated 16 September 2009 of the Prime Minister).
Hai Phong is rich in natural conditions, rich in beauty, diverse and unique with the nuances of tropical monsoon landscape. This is where the Cat Ba National Park - the world biosphere reserve - is a famous tropical forest, especially rich in the number of plant and animal species, many of which are classified as rare species. of the world. At the same time, there is also a delta area in the delta delta delta, creating a rural rice-growing landscape that characterizes the coastal tourism region and a sea area. Wide with abundant resources, lots of rare seafood and beautiful beaches.
The climate of Haiphong is quite distinctive, temperate, abundant with humid and year-round sunshine, very adaptable to the development of tropical plants and animals, especially pleasant to humans. In fall and spring.Haiphong is the land of waves, the wind, the east of the country, has a strategic position in the whole process of struggling to build and defend our nation. Hai Phong people with passionate patriotism, courage, resilience, dynamism, creativity, have witnessed and participated in many strategic resolutions in the war of national liberation and protection of the Patriarchate. Country.
This is the land marked bold against foreign aggression during the 4000 years of the Vietnamese history, with victories on the Bach Dang River of Ngo Quyen in 938, Le Hoan in 981, Tran Hung Dao's five 1288 ... so far, these achievements still exist a lot of historical monuments, handed down popular folk legends, leaving behind many valuable cultural and artistic works. So to Hai Phong, where we come to find relics, festivals associated with legends, legendary history of anti-foreign invasion of Hai Phong. These relics and festivals are important potential sources of protection and care for tourism development.
It can be said that Haiphong has a thousand years of glorious history, a land of convergence full of sacred mountains and rivers, and a brave, creative and very open, friendly people with four friends. Phoenix. The people from many rural areas to live in this estuary have formed a dynamic, creative and active character in labor, always sensitive to the new, making Hai Phong early to receive. The quintessence of pre-historic times of history. All of the above factors will make Hai Phong become a famous tourist destination in the country and internationally and Hai Phong is really one of the attractive tourist destinations of the North Coast. An important position in the strategy of tourism development in Vietnam.