Cẩm Phả

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Cẩm Phả (listen) is a city of Quảng Ninh Province in the North-east region of Vietnam.

Cẩm Phả
Thành phố Cẩm Phả
Cẩm Phả City
Official seal of Cẩm Phả
Nickname(s): 
"Mineland"
(Đất mỏ)
Motto(s): 
"Convergence of the miner culture, spread love from coal area"
(Hội tụ văn hóa thợ mỏ, lan tỏa tình yêu vùng than)
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Cẩm Phả is located in Vietnam
Cẩm Phả
Cẩm Phả
Cẩm Phả is located in Southeast Asia
Cẩm Phả
Cẩm Phả
Cẩm Phả is located in Asia
Cẩm Phả
Cẩm Phả
Coordinates: 21°01′N 107°19′E / 21.017°N 107.317°E / 21.017; 107.317
Country Vietnam
RegionNortheast
ProvinceQuảng Ninh
FoundedFebruary 21, 2012
Government
 • Chairman of the People's CommitteeVũ Quyết Tiến
 • Chairman of the People's CouncilTrần Văn Hùng
 • SecretaryTrần Văn Hùng
Area
 • Total
486.45 km2 (187.82 sq mi)
Elevation
70 m (230 ft)
Population
 (2019 census)
 • Total
190,232
 • Density390/km2 (1,000/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+7 (UTC + 7)
ClimateCwa
WebsiteCẩm Phả City

History

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Its name Cẩm-phả (锦普) means "splendor and spaciousness" in Hanese text. By reseacher Trần Chí Dõi, according to some records since the end of the 18th century, this name was created by the Tanka people, who could be pirates that often traveling to Hạ Long Bay. Initially it was just an adjective to point out a stone bund protruding at the edge of the bay (bãi đá lô nhô sát mép vịnh) and there was very little attention.

In 1884, Cẩm Phả came under French administration. On 24 August 1886, Bavienpour established the coal company Công ty Pháp mỏ than Bắc Kỳ (French: Société Francais des Charbonneges du Ton-Kin; SFCT). SFCT had the right to manage and exploit coal in the Hòn Gai, Cẩm Phả, and Mông Dương regions.[1]

On 27 September 1945, during the August Revolution, workers drove the French out of Cẩm Phả. The French troops returned in November 1946, but the inhabitants fought back, destroying the coal mines, and hundreds of people were killed. The last French soldier withdrew from Cửa Ông, near the Cẩm Phả area on 22 April 1955.[2]

During the Vietnam War, the US aircraft bombed Cẩm Phả several times due to its strategic importance.[3]

On 30 October 1963, Cẩm Phả, formerly in Hồng Quảng province, came under the jurisdiction of Quảng Ninh province when Hải Ninh and Hồng Quảng provinces merged.[4]

On 10 September 1981, Cẩm Phả's boundaries were redistributed. The town of Mông Dương was dissolved to form Mông Dương ward and Cẩm Hải commune. Cửa Ông town became Cửa Ông ward. Cọc Sáu town and Thái Bình commune became Cẩm Phú and Cẩm Thịnh wards.[5]

Cẩm Phả is an important coal exporting port of modern Vietnam (UNCTAD: VNCPH).[6] As of 2019, the city had a population of 190,232.[7] The city covers an area of 486 km2. The city was promoted from Cẩm Phả Rural District by February 2012.[8] Cẩm Phả was the site of one of the biggest coal mines in south of Asia which has been exploited for almost a century.[9] The coal mine featured on a special commemorative Vietnam stamp in March 1959.[10] Coal still forms the basis of Cẩm Phả's local economy, with other industries including quarrying, lime production, port, agriculture, forestry and fisheries.

The official town website claims several scenic and historical sites in Cẩm Phả, including the Cửa Ông Temple, Rều Island (Monkey Island), Thẻ Vàng Island, the Vũng Đục historical site, and Hang Hanh cave.[11]

Though the port of Cẩm Phả has a general maximum draft of 4.8 metres, it has a separate coal loading terminal with a dredged depth of 6.1 metres and a channel depth of 7.1 metres.[12][13] This allows ships of up to 10 metres draft to load due to the tidal range in the port.[14] The coal loading terminal is 299 metres long, and can accommodate ships that are 165 metres in length, at an average loading rate of 6,000 tonnes per day.

On 21 February 2012, Cẩm Phả was upgraded from the town to the city.[15][16]

Administration

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The city contains :

  • 13 wards : Quang Hanh, Cẩm Thạch, Cẩm Thủy, Cẩm Trung, Cẩm Thành, Cẩm Tây, Cẩm Bình, Cẩm Đông, Cẩm Sơn, Cẩm Phú, Cẩm Thịnh, Cửa Ông, Mông Dương.
  • 3 communes : Dương Huy, Cộng Hòa, Cẩm Hải.

Besides, most of the isles in Bái Tử Long Bay have not been yet updated with their official name because there are no residents.

Danh sách các đơn vị hành chính trực thuộc thành phố Cẩm Phả[17]
Name Area (km²) Population
Ward (13)
Cẩm Bình 1,38 8.423
Cẩm Đông 6,95 10.483
Cẩm Phú 8,53 15.840
Cẩm Sơn 10,15 17.079
Cẩm Tây 4,88 7.426
Cẩm Thạch 4,31 12.999
Cẩm Thành 1,25 9.484
Cẩm Thịnh 5,87 9.759
Name Area (km²) Population
Cẩm Thủy 2,68 12.049
Cẩm Trung 5,07 14.744
Cửa Ông 10,96 17.008
Mông Dương 114,46 15.566
Quang Hanh 51,35 17.427
Commune (3)
Cẩm Hải 14,64 1.327
Cộng Hòa 50,88 3.184
Dương Huy 46,77 3.207

Geography

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Tourism

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Cẩm Phả's non-industrial area is known as one of the 10 most famous landscapes in Vietnam.

Since the limited policy of coal mining to conserve resources for the future was implemented (2011), some mines in Cọc Sáu, Mông Dương, Hồng Dương have been quickly renovated into an eco-tourism place combined with learning.[18] The city government has called this new trend as "coal tourism" (du lịch than), which is thought to contribute to the conversion of the economy from maroon (processing coal) to green (resort).

Cửa Ông Rock Beach ("the duke port") is recorded as a defense line which Duke Trần Quốc Tảng set up to fight against the Mongolian navy in the XIII century. Besides : Bái Tử Long Bay, Campha Coal Museum, Hanh Caves, Vũng Đục Beach, Ông Cụ Isle, Quan Lạn Bund...

Environment

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Coal mining in Cẩm Phả started over 100 years ago. Mining area discharges to the sea about 9 million m3 waste water and 8 million m3 domestic waste water. Another issue is deforestation, for example, from 1969 to 1974, about 42% of area of forest land was reduced.[19]

Climate

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Climate data for Cẩm Phả (Cửa Ông)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Record high °C (°F) 28.7
(83.7)
29.8
(85.6)
33.5
(92.3)
34.6
(94.3)
36.1
(97.0)
37.4
(99.3)
38.8
(101.8)
36.9
(98.4)
36.2
(97.2)
34.8
(94.6)
33.0
(91.4)
29.6
(85.3)
38.8
(101.8)
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) 18.8
(65.8)
19.2
(66.6)
21.9
(71.4)
26.3
(79.3)
30.6
(87.1)
31.8
(89.2)
32.1
(89.8)
31.7
(89.1)
30.9
(87.6)
28.6
(83.5)
25.2
(77.4)
21.3
(70.3)
26.5
(79.7)
Daily mean °C (°F) 15.5
(59.9)
16.3
(61.3)
19.0
(66.2)
23.0
(73.4)
26.7
(80.1)
28.2
(82.8)
28.5
(83.3)
27.8
(82.0)
26.8
(80.2)
24.6
(76.3)
21.0
(69.8)
17.3
(63.1)
22.9
(73.2)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) 13.4
(56.1)
14.5
(58.1)
17.1
(62.8)
20.9
(69.6)
24.2
(75.6)
25.7
(78.3)
25.9
(78.6)
25.2
(77.4)
24.2
(75.6)
21.8
(71.2)
18.4
(65.1)
14.8
(58.6)
20.5
(68.9)
Record low °C (°F) 3.8
(38.8)
4.7
(40.5)
6.0
(42.8)
11.1
(52.0)
16.8
(62.2)
17.9
(64.2)
20.9
(69.6)
20.5
(68.9)
16.6
(61.9)
13.3
(55.9)
8.2
(46.8)
5.0
(41.0)
3.8
(38.8)
Average rainfall mm (inches) 35.0
(1.38)
29.1
(1.15)
50.1
(1.97)
92.6
(3.65)
196.5
(7.74)
312.1
(12.29)
414.9
(16.33)
504.8
(19.87)
346.7
(13.65)
156.3
(6.15)
56.2
(2.21)
22.4
(0.88)
1,935.6
(76.20)
Average rainy days 8.4 11.4 14.8 11.8 12.0 15.3 16.7 18.6 13.7 8.9 6.0 5.8 143.3
Average relative humidity (%) 81.6 86.0 87.9 86.8 83.7 84.5 84.2 85.7 82.7 79.0 77.7 77.2 83.1
Mean monthly sunshine hours 63.4 46.7 37.6 81.8 158.8 153.5 177.0 161.2 164.3 165.0 139.6 99.1 1,448
Source: Vietnam Institute for Building Science and Technology[20]

Culture

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Arts

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Cẩm Phả is the place to mark the maturity of many Vietnamese artists, who are from the working class. That comes from the very vibrant collective music movement maintained in every trade union.

Typically two top opera voices : Quang Thọ and Lê Dung. Besides, two sopranos Nông Xuân Ái and Tiến Hỷ ; tenor Quang Phòng ; V-pop songstress Hồ Quỳnh Hương.

In the field of literature, writer Võ Khắc Nghiêm came from a coal miner, so his life was attached to the works of Cẩm Phả and the people of that land.[21] His novel Life of a Young Woman (Mảnh đời của Huệ) has resonated and even made a famous TV drama.[22]

Sports

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In the decades from 1920s to 1990s, the mass sports movement has developed very strongly in Cẩm Phả to improve physical and mental health for workers. It was a positive reason that helped the sports delegations from Quảng Ninh regularly ranked first in the National Gymnastics and Sports Congress (Đại hội Thể dục Thể thao Toàn quốc).

However, starting in the late 1980s, when the subsidy policy was eliminated by the government of Vietnam, Cẩm Phả sports were increasingly stagnant and has been degraded very quickly. The most typical is the dissolution of the Quảng Ninh football team (Đoàn bóng đá Quảng Ninh) in 1991, which was headquartered in Cẩm Phả with most of its members who are mine workers. This event was considered a shock among Vietnam's fans at that time. The policy of remuneration was increasing, which was proportional to the narrowing of the coal mining scale, which is often considered by the Vietnam press as the cause of this leading sports industry degenerated.

About the beginning of the 2000s, when the equitization plan was applied, the positive economic growth was forced the Town People's Committee to consider shaping a movement that was their strengths.

Some Olympic competitions began to be concerned to build a team of highly competitive athletes. Besides football, badminton, tennis, shooting, swimming, canoeing, rowing and golf are very successful competitions of Cẩm Phả sports world.[23]

The V.League 1 football club Than Quảng Ninh is based in Cẩm Phả. The club uses both Cửa Ông and Cẩm Phả stadia for its matches.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ MEDIATECH. "Di tích trụ sở Công ty Pháp mỏ than Bắc Kỳ". baoquangninh.com.vn (in Vietnamese). Retrieved 2022-03-22.
  2. ^ "Lịch sử - văn hoá - xã hội". Cổng thông tin điện tử tỉnh quảng ninh (in Vietnamese). Archived from the original on 3 January 2014. Retrieved 2022-03-22.
  3. ^ Lloyd C. Gardner; Ted Gittinger (2004). The search for peace in Vietnam, 1964-1968 (1st ed.). College Station: Texas A & M University Press. ISBN 978-1-60344-650-1. OCLC 774384452.
  4. ^ "Nghị Quyết hợp nhất tỉnh Hải Ninh và khu Hồng Quảng và sáp nhập xã Hữu Sản thuộc huyện Đình Lập, tỉnh Hải Ninh, huyện Sơn Động, tỉnh Hà Bắc". thuvienphapluat.vn. Retrieved 2022-03-22.
  5. ^ "Quyết định 63-HĐBT phân vạch địa giới xã, phường thị trấn tỉnh Quảng Ninh". thuvienphapluat.vn. Retrieved 2022-03-22.
  6. ^ "Cẩm Phả Port Information". yicang.com. Yicang Port Database. Archived from the original on 2 February 2019. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
  7. ^ "Cẩm Phả (District-level City, Quảng Ninh, Vietnam) - Population Statistics, Charts, Map and Location". citypopulation.de. Retrieved 2024-02-07.
  8. ^ (in Vietnamese)Về việc thành lập thành phố Cẩm Phả thuộc tỉnh Quảng Ninh, Government Web Portal
  9. ^ T. H. Yellowdawn (2008). Fermented Foods: Naturally Enzymatic Therapy. p. 274: "Cẩm Phả is a town in Vietnam, where was the place of coal mine, the biggest coal industry in South of Asia has been exploited in almost a century, close to seashore of Ha Long Bay, where is the eighth wonderful scenery of thousand ..."
  10. ^ Cẩm Phả coal mine Archived 2013-11-02 at the Wayback Machine
  11. ^ Cẩm Phả town website Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine 2/25/2011
  12. ^ "Port information - Cẩm Phả". Sea rates. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
  13. ^ "Port of Cẩm Phả - port information". port.sol.com.cn. China ports directory. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
  14. ^ Guide to port entry - Port of Cẩm Phả - Ship Masters report. London: IHS Fairplay. 1 January 2017.
  15. ^ "Nghị quyết 04/NQ-CP thành lập thành phố Cẩm Phả tỉnh Quảng Ninh". thuvienphapluat.vn. Retrieved 2022-03-22.
  16. ^ "Thành phố Cẩm Phả: Lễ kỷ niệm 10 năm ngày thành lập". campha.gov.vn (in Vietnamese). Retrieved 2022-03-22.
  17. ^ " Archived 2014-03-23 at the Wayback Machine, Danh sách đơn vị hành chính
  18. ^ Cẩm Phả (Quảng Ninh) : Diverse experiences to attract customers
  19. ^ Yuguang Guo, Tad S. Golosinski (1996). Mining Science and Technology: Proceedings of the '96 International Symposium on Mining Science and Technology. CRC Press. p. 266. ISBN 9789054108252.
  20. ^ "Vietnam Institute for Building Science and Technology" (PDF).
  21. ^ Nhà văn Võ Khắc Nghiêm viết bằng cả cuộc đời mình
  22. ^ Gặp nguyên mẫu "Mảnh đời của Huệ"
  23. ^ Quảng Ninh sports promote strengths to reach
  1. ^ "Địa giới hành chính thành phố Cẩm Phả". Cổng thông tin điện tử Chính phủ (in Vietnamese).