The mountainous area of the central province of Quang Nam covers a large area, has complex terrain, with a low starting point, which is often affected by natural disasters. The minority communities in the province include Co Tu, Xo Dang (including Ca Dong, Xo Teng, Mo Nam people), Cor, The Gie-Trieng (including the Ve, Ta Rieng, and Bh Nong people) who have long resided in the western mountainous region of the province.

Quang Nam Province issued a plan to implement Project 6 on "Conserving and developing traditional cultural values of ethnic minorities in association with tourism development" in the period of 2022-2025 to set up facilities and provide cultural equipment for ethnic minority areas associated with community-based tourism development, contributing to creating jobs, increasing income for people and improving the spiritual and material life of ethnic minority people.

There are 7 districts benefiting from the project, including: Phuoc Son, Nam Giang, Tay Giang, Bac Tra My, Nam Tra My, Dong Giang, and Hiep Duc.

The plan aims to restore, preserve and promote traditional cultural values, foster and train cultural officials; provide physical facilities and cultural equipment for ethnic minority areas associated with community-based tourism development; contributing to creating jobs, increasing people's income, and improving the spiritual and material life of ethnic minority people in the province.

The plan includes many goals and specific contents to be implemented from now to 2025: Implement surveys, inventories, and collect documents of traditional cultural heritage of ethnic minorities such as costumes, household appliances, and musical instruments; Organize the restoration and preservation of a number of traditional festivals of ethnic minorities combined while turning them into tourism development products; Prioritize support for restoring and preserving traditional festivals at risk of extinction and typical festivals to turn them into products to serve tourism development in ethnic minority areas; Combine the organization of tourism potential surveys and organize conferences to build specific tourism products and promote tourism programs in ethnic minority and mountainous areas;

Support People's Artists and outstanding artists of ethnic minorities in transmitting and disseminating traditional cultural activities and training, fostering and teaching their successors; organize training classes, foster expertise and skills, and teach intangible culture; organize classes to foster tourist service skills; support research, restoration, preservation and promotion of intangible cultures of ethnic minorities at risk of extinction; build traditional cultural models of ethnic minorities;

Invest in building typical tourist destinations in ethnic minority and mountainous areas, including recognized tourist destinations and unrecognized tourist destinations with rich and attractive tourism resources with favorable conditions for tourism development; support businesses operating tourist destinations in ethnic minority and mountainous areas; households and ethnic minorities in localities with tourist destinations; give support to widespread promotion of typical traditional cultural values of ethnic minorities, tourism promotion program in ethnic minority and mountainous areas combined with research and survey of tourism potential, selection and construction of typical tourism products for ethnic minority areas;

Invest in preserving typical traditional villages and cultural villages; build community bookcases; repair, embellish, and prevent deterioration of special national relics and national relics of typical value; invest in building cultural institutions, sports and equipment in ethnic minority and mountainous villages...

At a recent working session with the authorities of Quang Nam province, Minister Hau A Lenh, Chairman of the National Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs noted that Quang Nam is a locality with many specific policies to support and invest in ethnic minority and mountainous areas. During the implementation process, Quang Nam took initiative, positivity and determination in implementation. Thanks to that, the economic, cultural and social development of the province's ethnic minority and mountainous areas has improved a lot in recent times.