The 34th National Television Festival will take place in the imperial city of Hue in central Thua Thien-Hue province from December 17 to 20.

Vietnam National Television’s Deputy General Director Pham Viet Tien said on December 12 that the annual festival is to review operations of the television industry throughout the year, and honour outstanding works in the field.

Some 500 works from 100 organisations nationwide will compete in nine categories including children’s programme, documentary, reportage, science and education, talk shows, dialogue, programmes in ethnic minority languages, music, and TV serial.

As part of the event, there will be three seminars on the production of agriculture and rural development programmes, the power of breaking news, and new media - opportunities and challenges for television stations.

In addition, there will be photo exhibitions, nominated work screenings as well as talks between television makers and local audiences.-VNA