Bac Ninh Province: International and Development

(CPV) - Vietnam - Korea Experts and Intellectuals Association (VKEIA) has presented 1,000 masks and 200 NanoCareVN hand sanitizers to Thuan Thanh War-Invalids Nursing Center, the northern province of Bac Ninh.

The northern Bac Ninh provincial People’s Committee has proposed the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism send this dossier on Dong Ho folk painting making to the Prime Minister for consideration and submission to UNESCO.

​Deputy Secretary of the provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the provincial People's Committee Nguyen Huong Giang warmly received the delegation of the Bac Ninh Fellow-Countrymen Association in the Czech Republic led by Mr. Dang Dinh Thinh, Chairman of the association, visiting the homeland.

The Bac Ninh – Hanoi Culture and Tourism Week and the 6th Quan Ho Folk Singing Festival in the province in 2020 will be rescheduled due to complex developments of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

Over 100 delegates who are Party members of the Office of the Bac Ninh provincial People’s Committee and secretaries and deputy secretaries from 50 Party Committees under the Party Committee of the provincial Agencies and Businesses Bloc joined in the 8th Congress of the Party Committee of the provincial People’s Committee Office, term 2020-2025, on February 10th-11th.

The northern province of Bac Ninh on February 10th held a meeting to carry out increased measures to fight the acute respiratory disease caused by novel corona virus (nCoV).

Quan Ho love duet singing has been recognised by UNESCO as an intangible cultural heritage. Bac Ninh province has made efforts to preserve the art to implement commitments to UNESCO on conservation and development of Quan Ho.

As of the end of November 2019, 4,131 enterprises had carried out procedures for goods exports and imports in the year at Bac Ninh Customs.

On December 2nd, Politburo member and Minister of Public Security, General To Lam and the Bac Ninh’s National Assembly deputies delegation met voters in Luong Tai district after the 8th session of the 14th NA.

From the beginning of this year, the northern province of Bac Ninh granted new investment license to 218 Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) projects with a total registered capital of USD817 million.

The Bac Ninh - Hanoi Tourism and Culture Week will take place from February 28th to March 8th, 2020 by authorities of Bac Ninh province and Hanoi city.

The Standing Board of the Bac Ninh provincial Party Committee organized a meeting on November 25th to realize Decisions of the Party Central Committee (PCC) Secretariat on personnel work.

The second “Vietnamese people prioritizing the use of Vietnamese goods” fair in Bac Ninh will be held from December 17th to 24th at the square of Kinh Bac Culture Center.

Finland has been cooperating with Vietnam in general and Bac Ninh province in particular in various fields, especially waste treatment, said Finnish Ambassador Kari Kahiluoto in a recent reception with Chairwoman of the provincial People’s Committee Nguyen Huong Giang.

According to the Decision 1317-QD/TU issued by the Standing Board of the Bac Ninh provincial Party Committee, 730 Party members are presented Party Badges.

More than 100 objects related to Dong Ho traditional and contemporary Dong Ho folk paintings, woodcuts and painting making tools are on display at an exhibition which opened in Hanoi on October 31st.

The Bac Ninh Young Businesses Association on October 13th-14th coordinated with the Vietnamese Traders Club to organize a program for the benefit of the country and people with the participation of over 200 young businesses.

On September 26th, the northern province of Bac Ninh inaugurated the smart urban area operation center and officially put into use the Bac Ninh Smart City Operation Center.

​A ceremony was organized by the Department of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs of Bac Ninh province and Samsung Vietnam to present wheelchairs to disabled people and scholarships to disadvantaged children on September 20th.

An opening ceremony for Luy Lau Folk Culture Conservation Area has taken place in Dong Ngu village, Ngu Thai commune, Thuan Thanh district, the northern province of Bac Ninh.

In celebration of the 74th anniversary of National Indepdence Day (September 2nd) a performance of Quan ho folk singing on a boat will take place at 20:00 in the northern province of Quang Ninh on September 1st.

The 24th Red River Delta Region Fine Arts Exhibition 2019 was launched by the Bac Ninh provincial People’s Committee and the Vietnam Fine Arts Association at Kinh Bac Cultural Center of Bac Ninh province on August 21st.

Dossiers on Dong Ho folk painting are being compiled by the Vietnam National Institute of Culture and Art Studies under the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism in a bid to secure UNESCO recognition as intangible cultural heritage of emergency protection.

The Hanoi Ceramic Museum and The Gioi Publishers have made public a book on Dong Ho folk paintings.

Nearly 100 traditional folk paintings are on display at an exhibition which has opened at the Hue Museum of Fine Arts in the central province of Thua Thien Hue.

Vietnamese weightlifter Do Tu Tung has won a hat-trick of gold medals for Vietnam and set three new youth world records.

According to customs and habits across Vietnam, many festivals take place at the beginning of the lunar year as this is the way local people preserve the historical and cultural traditions of their homeland.

Diem or Viem Xa village is not just a rural residential area located in Yen Phong, Bac Ninh, but most importantly, it is the original birthplace of Quan Ho folk singing (love duet singing), one of the most fascinating cultural activities that has attracted generations of Vietnamese people for a thousand years.

Being one of the largest and finest village communal houses in Vietnam, Dinh Bang village communal house is located in Dinh Bang village, Tu Son town, Bac Ninh province of the Red River Delta, 17 km from the nation's capital, Hanoi.

The Bac Ninh People’s Committee has approved a plan of operating the public passenger transport route by bus from VSIP industrial park to Chi Lang, with the starting point at Rich Gao hamlet in Phu Chan commune and the ending point at Que O in Chi Lang commune, with a distance of 42 km.