Tiên Lữ district

Tiên Lữ [tiən˧˧:lɨʔɨ˧˥] is a rural district of Hưng Yên province in the Red River Delta region of Vietnam.

According to scholars Philippe Papin and Keith Weller Taylor, until before the 13th century, the domains in the East of Thăng Long were most forests or swamps, thus they were very rugged with insignificant population density.

On March 11, 1977, the Council of Ministers issued Decision 58-CP on the consolidation of some rural districts of Hải Hưng province.

According to the 2021 statistical yearbook of the whole Hưng Yên province, Tiên Lữ rural district covers an area of 92 km2.

According to Đại Việt thông sử and Đại Việt sử ký tiền biên, Doãn clan in Phương Chiểu commune are descended from General Doãn Nỗ, whom was ranked among the 51 meritorious officials of Emperor Lê Thái Tổ.

His temple was built in the 15th century and it is also recognized as a special cultural relic of the whole Tiên Lữ rural district.

Due to the fact that the location is not too complicated and it has a large groundwater system, over the centuries, Tiên Lữ rural district is the intensive rice cultivation zone in the top of the Northern Vietnam.

During the Covid-19 pandemic, the textile factories in Tiên Lữ suddenly became known for providing an average of nearly 1 million masks each month for the whole country.

After the pandemic ended basically, the People's Committee and Council actively proposed a number of measures to stimulate production and consumption in the vision from 2025 to 2035.