Hue has all the while been the center of Vietnam's two rice baskets, the Red river delta and the Mekong delta. Though the Vietnam war had destroyed a number of the old palaces, there are still a small portion of the royal buildings that remain, some in good condition while others restored and some just left in their half-destroyed state. In 1981, Mr. Amadou-Mahtar-M'Bow, then Director General of UNESCO said of Hue to be "a masterpiece of urban poetry", after his visit there, and in 1993, UNESCO's Director General, Federico Mayor accepted the Complex of Monuments in Hue to be a World Culture Heritage.
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