Exciting National Olympic Running Day and Launching Ceremony of the 50th Hanoi Moi Newspaper Open Race

Delegates run in response at the launching ceremony. Photo: Quang Thai.

This is a key sports event of the city, celebrating the 79th anniversary of the Traditional Day of Vietnam's Sports Industry (March 27, 1946 - March 27, 2025), towards the 80th anniversary of the August Revolution (August 19, 1945 - August 19, 2025) and the National Day of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (September 2, 1945 - September 2, 2025).

Speaking at the opening ceremony of the program, Vice Chairman of Hanoi People's Committee Vu Thu Ha said that in response to the Campaign "All people exercise following the example of great Uncle Ho", according to Plan No. 517/KH-BVHTTDL dated February 22, 2021 of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the City People's Committee has annually issued a Plan to Launch the Olympic Running Day in conjunction with launching the Hanoi Moi Newspaper Run - For Peace in the City.

During the months of March 2025, districts, towns and cities across the city simultaneously launched the Olympic Running Day plan and the 50th Hanoi Moi Newspaper Run for Peace. Up to now, 30 districts, towns and cities have developed plans and organized Launching Ceremonies at most grassroots units, communes, wards, towns and schools, attracting over 350,000 participants.

This is a program of widespread social significance, aiming to propagate to all classes of people the significance of physical training, improving physical fitness and human stature in the period of integration and development, and at the same time aiming at the Final of the 50th Hanoi Moi Newspaper Run - For Peace in 2025.

At the ceremony, Member of the Standing Committee of the District Party Committee, Vice Chairman of the People's Committee of Hoan Kiem District Nguyen Quoc Hoan, representing the leaders of 30 districts, towns and cities, spoke in response to the program and said that the district will focus on specific tasks such as: Promoting the movement of physical exercise and sports, raising people's awareness of the role of health training, contributing to reducing medical costs and improving the quality of life.

Continue to effectively implement Program No. 6 dated March 17, 2021 of the Hanoi Party Committee on cultural development, improving the quality of human resources, building elegant and civilized Hanoians, especially focusing on performing well the tasks and targets in the field of mass sports.

The district will vigorously deploy the Olympic Running Day to communes, wards and towns, combined with the general running movement. Organize a launching ceremony, mobilize the participation of a large number of people; establish a team, organize training and participate in the 50th Hanoi Moi Newspaper Running Tournament - For Peace. Propaganda, mobilize and encourage people to actively participate in physical exercise and sports, respond to the campaign "All people exercise following the example of great Uncle Ho" for the period 2021-2030, the movement "Healthy to start a career and defend the country"; thereby, forming the habit of exercising, improving physical condition, contributing to building a healthy and civilized community.

At the launching ceremony, the Organizing Committee presented souvenir flags to the units attending the launching ceremony. After the opening ceremony, more than 4,000 people from the Hanoi Department of Culture and Sports, Hanoi Moi Newspaper, athletes, police, students from gifted high schools, Hoan Kiem district... participated in the run.

After the launching ceremony, from now until September 2025, the units will continue to implement the Hanoi Moi Newspaper Running Movement, running to test general standards at the grassroots level, thereby selecting athletes to practice and form a team to participate in the City-level Finals on September 28, 2025.

Trong Dat