HCM City promotes diverse ethnic cultures
HCM City (VNA) – Ho Chi Minh City, which is home to 437,000 people from 51 ethnic groups, has been carrying out a number of the Party and State’s ethnic affair policies to take good care of ethnic minority people as well as promote their cultural diversity.
Addressing a Lunar New Year meeting held by the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee’s chapter in the city on February 27, Permanent Vice Secretary of the municipal Party’s Committee Tat Thanh Cang recognised the practical contributions by local ethnic minority groups to the city’s growth in numerous fields, including social affairs, economics, culture, and defense-security.
The event drew 200 representatives
from the ethnic groups who expressed their hope to expand community-based and
cultural activities across the southern economic hub to strengthen the great
national unity.
Cang urged local authorities and fronts at all
levels to implement policies promoting unique culture of each ethnic group as
well as improving their material and spiritual lives.
He suggested increasing education
of young generations about the significant contributions of the ethnic groups
to the city’s building and development over the past 42 years.
The official encouraged ethnic minority people
to learn and follow the moral example of late President Ho Chi Minh and make
more contributions to building HCM City as a civilised and modern city.-VNA