Red Flamboyant Festival and the breakthrough development of Hai Phong

Hai Phong is bustling with excitement in the atmosphere of the 11th Red Flamboyant Festival in 2024. It is even more joyful and exciting when the Red Flamboyant Festival in 2024 is held at the Square in front of the Political-Administrative Center north of the Cam River, not only on a much larger scale than previous festivals but also promising to be very grand, unique, worthy of Hai Phong's position. And not only that, hundreds of activities on this occasion practically celebrate the 69th anniversary of Hai Phong's liberation and also as a greeting, an invitation for domestic and foreign investors and tourists to Hai Phong, a dynamic, friendly, hospitable city that is developing strongly and making breakthroughs.

The connection between royal poinciana flowers and Hai Phong

Every Hai Phong resident feels excited, joyful and proud because for a long time, the royal poinciana has been the symbol of Hai Phong, symbolizing Hai Phong, talking about Hai Phong is talking about the royal poinciana and vice versa. More broadly, the royal poinciana symbolizes the strong vitality of the city at the forefront; symbolizes the people of Hai Phong who " eat the waves and talk about the wind ", always burning with all their desires, ambitions and full of courage to overcome challenges, always daring to do, daring to endure, taking the lead in all fields and succeeding.

Thinking back, it becomes more poignant after many years of hardship and challenges, the royal poinciana has always been closely associated with the development of Hai Phong. It seems that only in this land can the royal poinciana be so brilliant and colorful, blooming in the blazing sun, bringing so many passionate emotions that make people's hearts flutter. And Hai Phong is the same, the more difficult it is, the more it shines.

The blood connection between Hai Phong and Royal Poinciana flowers is the premise for the city to organize the Red Royal Poinciana Festival for the past 11 years, an attractive and unique tourism product that has become a major brand of Hai Phong, an opportunity to promote, introduce and multiply the pride of Hai Phong.

Hai Phong Red Flamboyant Festival 2023 with the theme: Hai Phong - Shining coastal region.

Although the festival has become an annual event and has been held for the past 11 years, each year the festival has many new, more attractive and appealing features, so that the echoes of the festival remain forever. Indeed, from "The sparkling red color of Hai Phong " of the first festival season to " The heroic song of 60 years "; " Hai Phong connecting the arms of friends "; " Hai Phong reaching out to the ocean " in the following years and " Hai Phong - a successful destination " in 2019; 2022; " Hai Phong - Shining the estuary " in 2023 and " Hai Phong - Shining the heritage land " in 2024, all distill the ideas, issues, and key, most prominent events of the city over the years, but in the end, it is still an invitation from Hai Phong to investors and tourists from all over the world.

With those meanings, Hai Phong people, no matter where they go, always remember the city in May with the sky full of red phoenix flowers, and the Red Phoenix Flower Festival.

Great driving force for the city to develop rapidly

The Red Flamboyant Festival is the biggest annual event of Hai Phong, the crystallization of economic, cultural and social values, the source of strength, the driving force and resource to promote the breakthrough development of Hai Phong. Therefore, each Red Flamboyant Festival season, Hai Phong changes with miraculous power, constantly growing with new vitality and new position. And Hai Phong people are not only happy, excited and proud of the festival with the unique identity of their hometown, but even more proud of the land and people of Hai Phong, always bright, always strong, and brave to overcome all difficulties and challenges to succeed.

The Red Flamboyant Festival, an invitation from Hai Phong in 2024, is even more exciting and attractive to investors and tourists because of the resilience of a city that is developing rapidly, strongly and steadily; a locality considered innovative, dynamic, creative, a bright spot of the country; an area with great potential, advantages and huge development space.

This year's invitation has more " weight " because the planning and strategic development orientations of Hai Phong have been approved by the Prime Minister; these are outstanding results after 5 years of implementing Resolution 45 of the Politburo; 4 years of implementing Resolution 16 of the City Party Congress. The path for Hai Phong to become a leading city in the country in the cause of industrialization and modernization, the driving force for the development of the Northern region and the whole country, in the near future on par with typical cities in the region is very open.

The square in front of the North Cam River Political-Administrative Center is being rushed to complete to organize the Red Flamboyant Festival in 2024 (Photo: Nguyen Duc Nghia).

And the most convincing invitation is the effectiveness of investment projects implemented in the area; the presence of big names both domestically and internationally such as LG, GE, Fuji Xerox, Kyocera, Ren A Port, Vingroup, Geleximco... Especially the innovation in thinking and drastic actions of the entire political system. The whole city is like a large construction site, bustling and bustling with hundreds of large projects and works to create strong changes in the next 1-2 years. Therefore, no investor coming to Hai Phong does not want to stop and want to reap success with the city.

The invitation from Hai Phong is not only an affirmation but also a pride and a commitment: Hai Phong will always be an attractive destination, always bringing success to investors and to all those who love Hai Phong, living, studying, researching and working in the city.

According to Mr. Le Khac Nam, Vice Chairman of the City People's Committee, the Red Flamboyant Flower Festival - Hai Phong is an annual event, gradually becoming a traditional festival, a typical tourism product of Hai Phong. This is an important event to promote, introduce the image, build the brand, enhance the position and reputation of Hai Phong domestically and internationally; promote the diversification and improvement of the quality of tourism products; strengthen communication, promotion and tourism promotion to a large number of people, domestic and international tourists... The 2024 festival has many new and different points, organized in the context of Hai Phong implementing many large projects and works, affirming the position and spirit of the city; the content and programs are rich, diverse and outstanding; broadcast live on VTV1 will certainly have a far-reaching resonance.

The city leaders' request is that the festival must highlight and honor the land and people of Hai Phong, a city at the forefront of the storm but always resilient, brave, and indomitable in fighting foreign invaders; always at the forefront of innovation, industrialization and modernization and now the locomotive of international integration; Hai Phong people are always strong, courageous, dare to think, dare to do, dare to take responsibility, always know how to overcome and succeed.

Therefore, the 2024 Red Flamboyant Festival is associated with the 69th anniversary of Hai Phong Liberation Day (May 13, 1955 - May 13, 2024) and receiving the title of Ha Long Bay - Cat Ba Archipelago World Natural Heritage by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee. On this occasion, there are 26 typical events and 78 economic response activities ( groundbreaking, inauguration... ), cultural, sports and tourism activities taking place in the central area of the city, the urban area north of Cam River, the centers of districts and towns from the end of March 2024 and concentrated in May.

Red Flamboyant Festival 2022.

The highlight and focus is the grand opening night of the festival with the art program " Hai Phong - Light up the heritage " held for the first time at the square in front of the Political-Administrative Center north of the Cam River. The art program of the festival is elaborately and grandly staged with high artistic quality, expressing the most typical values and characteristics of the legend, history, cultural heritage, images, and people of Hai Phong through real scenes, combined with AR technology ( Augmented Reality - virtual reality ).

It is also very impressive that the overall stage 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 important achievements in the journey of building and developing the city. The royal poinciana petals are bent to form an upward shape, matching the modern buildings of the Hai Phong City Political-Administrative Center, all creating a harmonious and supportive relationship with impressive changes with many layers of performances from high to low, giving a sense of near and far, while also expressing the connection of the time axis: Past, present, future of the land at the estuary.

The festival promises to bring delegates, audiences and visitors deep impressions and feelings about the land of the beautiful, fascinating sea, rich in cultural identity and full of friendliness and hospitality. In particular, for the first time, the festival program will organize fireworks at both high and low altitudes.

Therefore, the color of the royal poinciana flowers this year is not only brilliant and outstanding on the streets but also glowing red in every agency, unit, locality, enterprise and in every family from urban to rural areas, especially in the hearts of every Hai Phong child. Then, the brilliant color of the red royal poinciana spreads to all parts of the country, to all Vietnamese people living and studying abroad, together looking towards the beloved Port City, welcoming a season of royal poinciana flowers blooming more brilliantly and colorfully than ever.

At this point, the festival atmosphere has filled everywhere, everyone is talking about royal poinciana flowers, about the festival and wishing the festival a success. The more proud we are of royal poinciana flowers, of the people , of the land of Hai Phong, the more each Hai Phong person must strive, train and contribute so that the royal poinciana flowers will become more and more colorful, the city will become more and more developed, civilized and modern. In particular, we need to strive to overcome all difficulties and challenges, fully complete the tasks of 2024, creating momentum for the coming years with firm, effective and sustainable steps./.

Hong Thanh

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