On the morning of February 19, at the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Department, a press conference was held to promote the 2025 Hoa Ban Festival and the 8th Dien Bien Province Ethnic Culture, Sports and Tourism Festival; January + February press conference and propaganda orientation for March 2025. Attending and directing the conference were comrade Vu A Bang, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; leaders of the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Department; Department of Information and Communications; Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism and representatives of central and local press agencies located in Dien Bien province, agencies with propaganda publications.
Comrade Vu A Bang, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, gave a speech at the Conference.
Accordingly, the Conference listened to Deputy Director of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism Doan Van Chi report information on activities within the framework of the 2025 Hoa Ban Festival and the 8th Dien Bien Province Ethnic Culture, Sports and Tourism Festival; the 13th National Tug of War Championship in 2025 in Dien Bien province; the 5th Northern Regional Karate National Championship in 2025; the 19th National Stick Pushing Championship in 2025.
Mr. Doan Van Chi, Deputy Director of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, informed about the organization of the 2025 Ban Flower Festival and the 8th Dien Bien Province Ethnic Culture, Sports and Tourism Festival.
The 2025 Ban Flower Festival is held together with the 8th Dien Bien Provincial Culture, Sports and Tourism Festival (referred to as the Festival, Festival Day), the key activities are held from March 13 to March 16, 2025 in Dien Bien Phu city and Dien Bien district. With the highlights within the framework of the festival, the festival day: Incense offering ceremony at the Martyrs' Temple at Dien Bien Phu Battlefield; Opening the Festival and Festival Day with a special art program and a brilliant fireworks display; Cultural activities: Folk song, folk dance, folk music festival of ethnic groups; Performance, introduction of festival excerpts, traditional cultural rituals of ethnic groups; Performance of live show and introduction of legends, history and unique folk dances, folk culture of the Thai ethnic group "Huyen tich U Va"; Sports competition activities: Including competitions (Con throwing, Crossbow shooting, Rice cake pounding, Tug of war, Pushing bicycles, Loading ammunition, pulling cannons...); Tourism activities: Competition to introduce culture and tourism of districts, towns and cities; Highland cultural space; Activities to display and introduce cultural and tourism products and organize the "Presstrip" program in the province; Street parade activities with the theme: "Colors of Dien Bien"; Hoa Ban Beauty Contest 2025 to honor the beauty of young women in Dien Bien, Northwest and to find outstanding faces representing the beauty of appearance, character, soul and intelligence of women in Hoa Ban land. These will be important factors in carrying out the mission of strengthening the solidarity of ethnic communities, being the cultural and tourism brand ambassadors for Dien Bien province.
Along with that, there are sports activities held at the Dien Bien province multi-purpose gymnasium: The 5th Northern Regional Karate National Championship held from February 27 to March 4, 2025 with a total of 75 events for men and women; The National Stick Pushing Championship held from March 6-15, 2025 with a total of 26 events including 12 weight categories for women and 14 weight categories for men; The 13th National Tug of War Championship in 2025 held from March 19-26, 2025 with a total of 36 events.
During the discussion, representatives of press agencies in the province and central press agencies residing in Dien Bien province gave their opinions to best serve the propaganda work as well as to organize events effectively.
At the Conference, delegates listened to the Draft Report on press work in January and February, and propaganda orientation for March 2025; Comrade Ngon Ngoc Khue - Deputy Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Department delivered a concluding speech at the conference./.
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