摘要:Craft village is one of the distinct features of rural areas and an important factor in industrial and secondary manufacturing zones and subzones in Vietnam. Craft village, in nature, is a guild within a village who earn their living through non-agricultural activities. Craft village has been long preserved and developed with various characteristics including production subject (artisan); produce (featured by sophistication and arts); natural condition and specific technological process. In the context of industrialization and modernization being interwined with sustainable development, this article provides an insight into environmental protection policies applied to craft villages in Hanoi in order to understand the situation of executing environmental protection policies for craft villages in Hanoi; to point out challenges in formulating and implementing the policies; to therefore propose measures to develop the policies and enhance the implementation effectiveness.