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Exhibition honours handicraft products in Hanoi

An exhibition featuring handicraft products from Hanoi has been held in at Ly Thai To Square in Hanoi, attracting a large number of managers, enterprises and visitors.
Exhibition honours handicraft products in Hanoi ảnh 1Foreign ambassdors to Vienam at a booth in the OVOP exhibition (Source:http://www.tienphong.vn)
Hanoi (VNA) - An exhibition featuring handicraft products fromHanoi has been held in at Ly Thai To Square in Hanoi, attracting a large numberof managers, enterprises and visitors.

The three-day exhibition, entitled “One Village, One Product(OVOP),” featured nearly 40 pavilions displaying and selling handicraftproducts and gifts of high quality with beautiful designs made from numerousmaterials, such as rattan, bamboo, ceramics, silk, wood, paper and stone, aswell as folk paintings.

The exhibits were selected from production and businessfacilities, trade villages and artisans around the capital.

Notably, over 30 types of lamps were harmoniously combinedwith around 5,000 decorative products, creating a shimmering space around theLy Thai To flower park and attracting a large number of visitors.

Addressing the opening ceremony on December 9, Vice Chairmanof the Hanoi People’s Committee Nguyen Doan Toan emphasised that the exhibitionwas expected to create the beauty of unique Vietnamese handicraft products anddesigns, conveying a message of “preserving Vietnam’s identity and beingcreative to increase products’ value.”

The exhibition also aimed to enhance and expand tradepromotion activities and attract more visitors to the capital. The event was alsoexpected to help enterprises and trade villages to improve their capacity andcompetitiveness in producing and trading their products on the domestic andexports markets.

OVOP movement was initiated in Japan’s Oita prefecture in1979 with the aim of encouraging trade villages to create products with highadded value. This is the first time Hanoi has held an exhibition following theOVOP model, and it is expected that it will improve the position of productsfrom the city’s trade villages not only on the domestic market but alsoglobally.-VNA
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