Projects inaugurated to mark Hanoi’s millennium

Hoa Binh Park in Tu Liem district of Hanoi opened to visitors
on Oct. 8 as a project to mark the capital city’s millennium.

Vice State President Nguyen Thi Doan attended the opening ceremony.

The 20-ha park has a 20-tonne bronze peace statue, trees, a 5.4 ha lake, a games house and entertainment facilities.

The same day, the expanded section of Le Van Luong road opened to traffic to mark the 1,000 th anniversary of Hanoi .

The six-lane road with a length of 2.67 km was built at a cost of nearly 700 billion VND (36.8 million USD).

The
road’s operation will contribute to an easing of traffic jams on
Nguyen Trai Road , the national highway No. 6, and facilitate
socio-economic development in the capital city’s western region.

Also
on Oct. 8, young people held a giant programme, including art
performances, exhibitions and street festivals across the country, to
celebrate the millennium anniversary.

The
programme started in Hanoi with an incense offering ceremony at King
Ly Thai To statue in Hanoi and an art performance of 3,500 children
and young people of Hanoi and 65 young foreigners around Hoan Kiem
Lake .

The programme continued with a
performance of dragon and unicorn dances as well as singing and
dancing simultaneously in Hanoi , the central city of Da Nang and
Ho Chi Minh City .

Also in the morning of the
day, 1,000 children drew a large painting on the theme, “I love Hanoi ”
at Hoan Kiem Lake , while performances of songs and dances took
place at universities, colleges and senior high schools nationwide.

As part of the programme, an exhibition of photos and objects was
held around Thien Quang lake in Hanoi . Over 600 photos, documents
and objects were displayed under the theme, “Vietnamese Youth – proud of
1,000 years of Thang Long-Hanoi and National Construction”.

A three-day festival of young people of ASEAN+3 (ASEAN countries and
China , Japan and the Republic of Korea ) was
held from Oct. 6. Festival participants took the occasion to boost
exchanges and establish cooperation in many fields.

Young people from the northern province of Bac Ninh brought a
collage painting, the largest of its kind in Vietnam , to the
festival.

In the evening, a street festival is expected to be held with singing, dancing and a parade around the centre of Hanoi./.

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Arts in spotlight as youth mark millennium

Young people will hold many activities from art performances to
exhibitions and street festivals across the country on Oct. 8 to
celebrate the 1,000 th birthday of Hanoi.

At a press
briefing in Hanoi on Oct.5, the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union
Central Committee said celebrations will start in Hanoi with an incense
offering ceremony at the King Ly Thai To statue in Hanoi and an art
performance of 3,500 children and young people of Hanoi and 65 young
foreigners around the Hoan Kiem Lake in Hanoi.

The programme will
continue with a performance of drums and clarinets as well as singing
and dancing at the same time in Hanoi , the central city of Da Nang
and Ho Chi Minh City .

Also in the morning of the day 1,000
children will draw paintings following the theme “I love Hanoi ” around
the Hoan Kiem Lake , while performances of songs and dances will
take place at universities, colleges and senior high-schools
nationwide.

As part of the programme, an exhibition of photos and
objects will be held around Thien Quang lake in Hanoi . Over 600
photos, documents and objects will be displayed under the theme of
“Vietnamese Youth – proud of 1,000 years of Thang Long-Hanoi and
National Construction”.

A three-day festival of young people of
ASEAN+3 (ASEAN countries and China , Japan and the Republic of
Korea ) will be held from Oct. 6. Participants of the festival plan to
take this occasion to boost exchanges and establish cooperation in many
fields.

Young people from the northern province of Bac Ninh
will bring a collage painting, the largest of its kind in Vietnam ,
to the festival.

In the evening of Oct. 8, a street festival will be held with singing, dancing and a parade around the centre of Hanoi .

On
Oct. 5, an exhibition of Bat Trang ceramic craft village of Hanoi
opened to celebrate Hanoi birthday. Also on display at the
exhibition are products from other traditional ceramic craft villages in
the country.

In the same vein, an artistic photo festival of 15
northern mountainous provinces also opened on Oct. 5 in Dien Bien Phu
city, Dien Bien province.

Exhibits are 205 photos selected from
1,219 entries to the festival, capturing the beauty of nature, the
people and their daily lives. Of these photos, 24 were awarded with
prizes.

Also, Vietnam News Agency (VNA) and the northern
province of Thai Binh jointly opened an exhibition of 120 photos of
Hanoi and Thai Binh./.

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Numerous activities to be held during Hanoi’s anniversary

Hanoi will organise firework displays in 29 locations on Oct. 10 to mark
the grand ceremony of the 1,000 th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi.

The 15-minute fireworks will be set off following the
end of an artistic fireworks programme at the My Dinh National Stadium
in Tu Liem district on Oct. 10.

Four locations for
high-range display will include Hoan Kiem Lake (Hoan Kiem
district), Ly Tu Trong Garden (Tay Ho district), Thong Nhat
Park (Hai Ba Trung district), and Van Quan Lake (Ha Dong district).

The other 24 locations will be for low-range displays.

Some 31,000 people will participate in the march and parade at the Ba Dinh Square on Oct. 10 to mark the event.

Over 12,000 army soldiers and officers, police and local security force with 10 helicopters will join the march.

The
demonstration will be the largest in Vietnam to display forces and
achievements of Hanoi and the country over the past 1,000 years,
especially those in the national renewal process, the honour of
civilised and heroic capital and the city of peace.

According to
Le Tien Tho, Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the event
will begin with a torch procession from the Ho Chi Minh Museum to his
mausoleum and light up at the torch tower. After the tower was light up,
a ceremony to salute the national flag and shooting of 21 battery
salvos will take place. Later, there will be an art performance on
Hanoi .

The event which will be broadcast live by the Vietnam Television will conclude by pigeon and balloon release by 1,000 children.

On Sept. 28, procession of Vietnam ’s largest embroidered picture to Hanoi completed.

Embroidery
artisans held a ceremony to offer the picture as gift for Hanoi ’s
birthday. Pham Quang Nghi, municipal Party Committee Secretary, on
behalf of Hanoi received the gift.

The 4m-long and 3m-wide picture was made by nine artisans of XQ Da Lat embroidery painting company during 1000 days.

The embroidered picture features a brilliant lotus and the letter “S”
for Vietnam in the lotus lake, with a temple, clouds, moon, cranes,
and old villages.

Also on Sept. 28, the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) opened a photo exhibition on the 1,000 year-old capital city.

On
display are 100 photos by VNA reporters and its freelance
photographers. They depict Hanoi now and then, President Ho Chi
Minh and Party and government leaders with Hanoi , as well as
historical events of the capital city.

The exhibition will run until Oct. 2.

For the same purpose, a ceramic statue of the old tortoise of Hoan
Kiem Lake made by artisan Tran Do from Hanoi ’s Bat Trang
Pottery Village was handed to the Hanoi Culture-Sports-Tourism
Department on Sept. 28.

The 4-tonne tortoise was made as a replica of the tortoise which is being displayed at the Ngoc Son temple.

The same day, the delegation of Hanoi’s Party’s and People’s
Committees, People’s Council and Fatherland Front paid floral tributes
to Kings Dinh and Le at their temples and King Ly Thai To stele in the
northern province of Ninh Binh on the occasion of the capital’s
birthday.

Hoa Lu is the first ancient capital of the
feudal Vietnamese State and the firm military stronghold of the
Dinh, pre-Le and Ly dynasties for 42 years. One year after ascending the
throne, King Ly Thai To decided to move the capital city from Hoa Ly to
Thang Long (now Hanoi) in 1010./.

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