President Tran Dai Quang praises overseas Vietnamese’s contributions
Ho Chi Minh
City (VNA) – President Tran Dai Quang praised the contributions of
Overseas Vietnamese towards the country’s achievements at a meeting on January
20 with 50 overseas Vietnamese delegates.
The delegates represent
4.5 million Vietnamese living across the world at the 2017 Xuan Que Huong
(Homeland Spring) event in Ho Chi Minh City.
The President
appreciated the Committee for Overseas Vietnamese Affairs and the HCM City
People’s Committee for organising the Xuan Que Huong programme and many
activities to welcome the Overseas Vietnamese back home for the traditional
Lunar New Year.
He affirmed the
Party and State always consider OVs as an inseparable part of the Vietnamese
nation and welcome them back to the home country to engage in national
development.
The delegates
said Vietnamese living abroad always thinks of the homeland and strive to
preserve national culture via opening classes to teach the Vietnamese language.
They have also actively worked to mobilise resources to contribute to the
homeland’s construction.
The same day, President
Tran Dai Quang and the delegates offered incense to the Hung Kings, the
nation’s founders, at the Hung Kings memorial site in the National
Historic-Cultural Park, and to President Ho Chi Minh, the national liberation
hero, at the Ho Chi Minh Museum in HCM City.
The President
and the delegates also released carps at the Ben Nha Rong wharf in observing
the traditional Kitchen God Day ahead of the Lunar New Year.-VNA