HCM City hosts numerous activities during Tet holiday
HCM City (VNA) - The Ho Chi Minh City People’s
Committee has planned a panoply of activities to celebrate the upcoming Lunar New
Year (Tet) festival, which falls on February 11-17 this year.
Of note, get-togethers with overseas Vietnamese and the
foreign diplomatic corps in the city are set to be held on February 4 and 6.
Meanwhile, a ceremony to offer flowers and incense to
late President Ho Chi Minh and President Ton Duc Thang will take place on
February 8.
Fireworks will light up the sky at the stroke of
midnight on New Year’s Eve on February 11.
Flower festivals will be arranged at District 1’s Tao
Dan Park and District 7 from February 6-17, with more than 3,000 exhibits being
showcased.
A book street festival and flower road will be
organised along Nguyen Hue pedestrian mall from February 9 to 15.
Also to mark the occasion, local authorities presented
aid packages totalling 813 billion VND (35.07 million USD) to more than 550,000
policy beneficiaries, people who rendered service to the nation, Heroic
Mothers, poor families, the elderly, and those hit by the pandemic.
Celebrations must follow guidelines to prevent the
spread of COVID-19./.