(HBO) – A delegation of the Hoa Binh provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism has paid a working visit to the Kaysone Phomvihane Museum in Laos to bolster cooperation in professional activities.
The visit aimed to share experience in document and artifact
collection, restoration, along with preservation and promotion of values of
Vietnam-Laos revolutionary relic sites in Hoa Binh province.
Singthong Singhapanya, a leader of the Kaysone
Phomvihane Museum, welcomed the delegation’s working visit to Laos. He affirmed
that the Party and State of Laos are interested in the collection of documents
and the restoration and preservation of Vietnam-Laos revolutionary relic sites,
including those in Hoa Binh province.
He highlighted the importance of the Vietnam-Laos
relic sites in Hoa Binh to Laos’s revolution as well as the managing board of
the Kaysone Phomvihane Museum, noting that these relic sites provide more
evidence of the special friendship between the two nations.
The two sides agreed to cooperate in collecting
relevant documents and restoring and preserving these relic sites.
The delegation of the Hoa Binh Department of Culture, Sports
and Tourism visits the house of late President Kaysone Phomvihane in the
Kaysone Phomvihane Museum in Laos.
After discussing, the two
sides signed a memorandum of understanding. Accordingly, they agreed to
continue cooperating in professional activities, including studying and
collecting artifacts. They will also keep working together to preserve and
bring into play values of the two Vietnam-Laos revolutionary relic sites in Hoa
Binh. Communications activities will also be increased to raise people’s
awareness of the special bilateral friendship as well as the significance of
the two relic sites in the province.
In 2019, the Vietnamese side will invite a
delegation of Laos to visit Hoa Binh to discuss the cooperation.
During their stay in Laos, the Hoa Binh
delegation visited to collect information at some other museums and historical
and cultural relic sites of Laos. They also interviewed two persons who
directly prepared for and attended the preparatory congress for the second
Congress of the Lao People’s Party (now the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party)
in Hoa Binh in 1971.
As part of Project 6 under the national target program for socio-economic development in ethnic minority and mountainous areas in 2024, Lạc Sơn District, Hoa Binh province focuses on diverse and practical activities to promote the project's goal: "Preserving and promoting the beautiful traditional cultural values of ethnic groups in conjunction with tourism development."
After 3 years of implementing Resolution No. 04-NQ/TU, dated October 11, 2021 of the Provincial Party Standing Committee on preserving and promoting the cultural heritage values of Hoa Binh province's ethnic groups in the period of 2021 – 2025 with the orientation to 2030 (NQ04), it has mobilized the participation of the entire political system, the people from all walks of life and there have been positive changes. So far, out of the 10 targets of NQ04, 3 targets have been met and exceeded the plan set for 2025. Typically, 70% of the intangible cultural heritage (ICH) of ethnic groups in the province is on the list of the national ICH items and they have been protected and restored, exceeding 20% of the proposed Resolution.
Great National Unity Day has been recently celebrated in Duong hamlet, Vay Nua commune, Da Bac district, in an atmosphere of warmth and community spirit. The event highlighted national identity and strengthened the bond of solidarity among residents.
On November 28, the People's Committee of Cao Phong district organized the Cultural and Sports Festival of Cao Phong district's ethnic groups in 2024.
