The Propaganda Festival of Kim Boi District in 2020

9/22/2020 - 4:27:43 PM

(HBO) - Kim Boi district has organized a propaganda festival to welcome the success of the XXIII District Party Congress, term 2020 - 2025.

The organizing committee is awarding prizes to the winning teams.

There were 302 communicators and amateur actors from 16 units across the district attending this festival. At the festival, each unit took part in the following competitions: The photo presentation, the propaganda arts lasting no more than 35 minutes. The propaganda topics were the Party's guidelines and lines, the State's policies and laws; the propaganda on the success of Party Congress at all levels, towards the XIII Congress of the Party; the movement to build a new countryside; the movement of learning and following Ho Chi Minh's ideology, morality, and style.

With the spirit of the serious practice and preparation, the careful investment in the content, the costumes, the props and so on, the teams have confidently shown their competition. Many teams had excellent exams, the message content communicated was closely and easily to understand with the vivid and creative way of presenting the content, leaving a lot of impressions for viewers.

The festival purpose was to evaluate the quality of the cultural and artistic movement in the localities, creating the conditions for communicators to learn, exchange and share experiences and propaganda methods. At the same time, it helped discover and foster the propaganda talents to participate in Hoa Binh Provincial Festival of Propaganda and Encouragement held in the coming time.

The results were as followed: the organizers awarded eight A prizes, twelve B prizes, twenty-seven C prizes. The first prize of the whole group was awarded to Bo town, the second prizes were awarded to Hung Son and Xuan Thuy communes, the third prizes were awarded to Vinh Tien, Vinh Dong and Dong Bac communes. The encouragement prizes were to Sao Bay, Kim Lap, Cuoi Ha, Tu Son communes.

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