This is the largest-scale gala ever in Hai Phong City in terms of stage, audience, and grandstand with a capacity of up to 18,000 people, of which nearly 10,000 seats are reserved for delegates.
This year, the theme of the festival is inspired by the image of a blooming royal poinciana flower, creating a sense of enjoyment from many different angles of Hai Phong City rising strongly, full of vitality, highlighting important milestones and achievements in the journey of building and developing the city.
In his opening speech, Mr. Nguyen Van Tung - Chairman of Hai Phong City People's Committee said: On the occasion of the 69th anniversary of Hai Phong Liberation Day and the Red Flamboyant Festival - Hai Phong 2024, looking back at history, Hai Phong is the place "at the forefront", to protect the fatherland; Hai Phong City is always proud of the tradition of "loyalty - determination to win".
Hai Phong has been known since the time of General Le Chan who reclaimed land and established An Bien village; Hai Phong has the historic Bach Dang river with the glorious feats of our ancestors to gain independence for the nation.
Hai Phong continues to be a locality that "goes first and comes last", both the front line and the solid rear during the years of resistance war to save the country; a place with many breakthroughs, in the early years of the renovation period, it has suggested and contributed to the Central Government to issue Directive 100 and Resolution 10 on "contracting in agriculture".
In recent years, the city's socio-economy has always developed strongly and dramatically, with an average GRDP of 12.7% per year for 9 consecutive years.
The Red Flamboyant Festival – Hai Phong 2024 with the theme “Hai Phong – Illuminating the heritage” consists of 3 chapters; chapter 1 is called “The Moonlight of the Sea”. The main image is the legendary moonlight. The moon has many meanings in Eastern beliefs, it is a symbol of the cycle of time and crops in agricultural culture.
Chapter 2, titled “Hai Phong – Radiant May”, takes the main image in the stage production as the lighthouse with many historical and contemporary meanings.
Long Chau Lighthouse is often called "Long Chau pearl eye", the ancient lighthouse still stands tall in the middle of Cat Hai sea and sky, guiding thousands of ships and boats going up and down the Gulf of Tonkin and offshore of Vietnam.
Chapter 3 is called “Hai Phong – The Land of Heritage Light”, the main image is the aspirational sun. The sun is a symbol of life, of the most brilliant and endless source of light, illuminating the world, representing the intense aspirations of a city before dawn, bringing new opportunities and opportunities with strategic orientations and visions, opening a door to a promising future for the Port City.
The 2024 Hai Phong Red Flamboyant Festival has a special mark, because Hai Phong City and Quang Ninh Province together received the UNESCO Decision to recognize Ha Long Bay - Cat Ba Archipelago as a World Natural Heritage, the first inter-provincial heritage of Vietnam.
Since 1992, Quang Ninh province has prepared a dossier and received UNESCO's recognition of Ha Long Bay as a world natural heritage in 1994; Ha Long Bay was recognized for the second time in 2000. Following that, Quang Ninh province - the Northeastern region of the country has promoted its beautiful natural position, unique culture, and civilized society to develop tourism, so that Quang Ninh's GRDP has reached over 10%/year for 9 consecutive years.
Since the years of building and defending the country, Hai Phong people have paid great attention to building cultural works, spiritual and religious establishments with cultural values for future generations. Currently, Hai Phong has 132 tangible and intangible cultural heritages that have been recognized as national cultural heritages, including 2 special national relics; there are 21 recognized national treasures, ranked among the top in the country.
In the process of building and developing the city, Hai Phong highly values the cultural values and spiritual life of the people, because culture is the driving force and source of development.
With the historical - cultural - human traditions of Hai Phong, along with the cultural heritages that have been honored, it will be the premise and important motivation for the city to strive for Hai Phong to lead the country in the cause of industrialization - modernization and truly "become the driving force for the development of the whole country".
To enhance the value of Ha Long Bay, since 2011, Quang Ninh and Hai Phong have agreed and worked together to prepare a dossier to submit to UNESCO for Ha Long Bay - Cat Ba Archipelago to be recognized as a world natural heritage on September 16, 2023.
On the occasion of the Red Flamboyant Festival, Mr. Nguyen Van Tung - Chairman of Hai Phong City People's Committee sent his thanks to UNESCO, the Government, the Ministry of Culture - Sports and Tourism, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other organizations for their support to the two localities.
Source: https://kinhtedothi.vn/hai-phong-hang-nghin-nguoi-chen-chan-du-dem-hoi-hoa-phuong-do.html
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