Activities mark Hanoi’s 1,000th birthday

An imposing street festival took place in Hanoi on October 8, representing the Vietnamese young generation’s sentiment, responsibility and love to Hanoi on the occasion of its 1,000 th birthday.
The programme, entitled “Youths ascend with the country”, drew the participation of 10,000 Youth Union members, teenagers and artists of professional art troupes from three regions of the country as well as many foreign young people and students.
The festival opened with a special art performance by Vietnamese and foreign youths and continued with a parade of young people from the capital.
A tour of several streets around Hoan Kiem Lake wrapped up the festival, leaving deep impressions on visitors to the 1,000-year-old capital city of Hanoi.
At the festival, the Ho Chi Minh City Youth Union Central Committee called on young people throughout the country to support flood victims in central provinces. To date, youth nationwide raised nearly 2 billion for the victims.
On the same day, more than 3,000 young people in Ho Chi Minh City took part in a programme entitled, “Towards the capital city- 1,000 years of culture” in Dam Sen Cultural Park.
The Hanoi People’s Committee held a ceremony to name “The work celebrating the 1,000 th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi” for complexes of works at Hanoi Elite Athlete Training Centre in Tu Liem district’s My Dinh commune.
The Hai Phong city Buddhist Association and the People’s Committee of Do Son district jointly held a programme to celebrate the millennium anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi and a ceremony to inaugurate a bell of the Ly dynasty at the Tuong Long Tower Pagoda.
On the day, the Mekong Delta province of Vinh Long inaugurated the Binh Minh district General Hospital, which was named “The work celebrating the 1,000 th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi”.