Located more than 20km south of Nam Dinh city, nearly 2km from Lac Quan bridge (on Highway 21, crossing Ninh Co river), Kien Lao parish (belonging to Bui Chu diocese) is known as a large parish in Vietnam. Nam Dinh. The parish has over 12,000 parishioners, living in the communes of Xuan Kien, Xuan Tien, and Xuan Truong town in Xuan Truong district.
Kien Lao Temple is famous for its massive scale, sophisticated architecture and magnificence, not many churches in Bui Chu diocese can match. In particular, the people of Kien Lao are famous for their talent. Hundreds of years ago, parishioners had a profession of casting and manufacturing bronze; crafting wooden handicrafts; mechanical production. Currently, the above traditional occupations are maintained and developed by the Kien Lao people, especially the mechanical profession is developing rapidly. Not only making common household products such as knives, scissors, agricultural tools such as hoe blades, shovel blades, Kien Lao workers also design and produce many types of machines and tools that require high technology. such as thresher machine, feed processing machine, concrete island mixer, waste crusher…
Currently, in Kien Lao, there are hundreds of businesses and establishments specializing in the production and trading of these products, creating jobs for thousands of local and neighboring workers. More than a decade ago, an industrial cluster of craft villages was formed here. This is also the first rural craft village industrial cluster built in Nam Dinh.
Kien Lao people are proud of their machine tool products that have been contributing effectively to agricultural and rural life not only in Nam Dinh but also in many other localities across the country. New rural construction is being implemented nationwide, opening up many opportunities and development prospects for the mechanical profession in Kien Lao.
Talented, hardworking people of Kien Lao have been building their hometown parish to become rich and bustling, most of the families in the parish have a well-off life. During a recent business trip to Nam Dinh, Politburo member and President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan visited Kien Lao parish. He was very pleased with the change and development of the parish, especially when he heard that the parishioners were always united, with one heart of “Respect God, patriotic”.
