Procession into Thuong Temple, Hung Temple National Special Historical Relic Site. Photo: VNA

This is a cultural event of special significance not only for the Vietnamese community living, studying, researching and working abroad, but also for international friends who love Vietnam.

The program has been maintained and organized annually by the Global Vietnam National Day Project Board according to a common scenario (from 2015 to present), aiming to create a common cultural day - connecting Vietnamese people around the world and international friends, building a solid cultural bridge of friendship, building sincere friendship between Vietnam and international friends.

In the 10th edition, Vietnam National Ancestor Day will feature many activities in many countries around the world. Specifically, the program will coordinate with the Vietnamese Community in Saint Petersburg and the Ho Chi Minh Institute, Saint Petersburg State University (Russian Federation), organize key programs in 2024 and burn incense to pay respect to the Ancestor's Death Anniversary in the countries. The project board has installed the statue of King Hung.

The program also cooperated with the Department of Foreign Information and the Vietnamese Community in Saint Petersburg to exhibit Happy Vietnam photos in the Russian Federation; and cooperated with the Berlin-Gesundbrunnen Academy of Music (Germany) to premiere the song Song of Peace.

The program will be broadcast online, connecting many locations and activities at 8:00 p.m. on April 18 (ie March 10 of the Lunar calendar). In addition to being broadcast online on the Global Vietnam National Day Fanpage, the program will also be broadcast on channels such as Hung King TVglobal, Hanoi Cable Television (HITV), Future Now (with members in 178 countries and territories).

With special support from the Ministry of Information and Communications, the program will be broadcast on TV Channel and live on Fanpage Vnews, Vietnam News Agency, and reported and shared on many Fanpage channels, press - media of Vietnam, overseas Vietnamese and international.

Along with that, the Global Vietnamese National Day project was also introduced at influential Vietnamese forums in Paris (March 2024); in Poland (April 2024); in Rome, Italy (April 2024).

Over the past 9 years, the Vietnam Ancestral Day Global Project Board (Strategy for coordinating the organization of Hung Kings' Commemoration Day and Vietnam Day globally) (VAG) (2015) has coordinated with associations, overseas Vietnamese communities in various countries, Vietnamese agencies, local governments and international friends to organize the Hung King statue installation ceremony in more than 10 countries and territories around the world; directly and online organize the Hung King's Commemoration Ceremony & honor the descendants of Hung Kings globally, connecting overseas intellectual delegates and international friends from nearly 50 countries on all five continents.

In particular, in 2018, the project was supported in writing by the Prime Minister to continue implementing the Global Vietnamese National Day in countries with a large number of overseas Vietnamese living and to develop it into a national scientific topic.

Since 2019, the Global Vietnam National Ancestor Day Project Board has been supported by ICI International (a non-profit organization operating in the field of intercultural and scientific research in Austria) with international legal status to continue spreading the culture of Hung King worship of Vietnam to the world.
According to News