Lao Cai province has 50 national and provincial cultural relic sites and 40 national intangible cultural heritages. Some of them were added to UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. This is the foundation for Lao Cai to develop various types of tourism.
Viet Nam has consistently attached great importance to preserving and promoting ethnic culture, especially in border areas, considering it an important task of national development.