The Vietnamese Government Web Portal hosted an online talks themed “Thousand-year imprints of Thang Long-Hanoi” on July 3.

At the talks, the participants highlighted the significance of the grand celebrations of the 1,000 th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi and preparations for the event.

They emphasised the importance of education in preserving the city’s tangible and intangible heritages, its traditional history and cultural values as well as Hanoians’ customs, traditions and lifestyles while the city is developing into a modern civilised one.

The millennial tangible and intangible cultural values have created Thang Long-Hanoi’s face, said Prof. Dr. Luu Tran Tieu, who is also President of the Vietnam Cultural Heritage Association.

Vietnam is proposing the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) to recognise its 82 doctoral stone steles at the Temple of Literature and the Saint Giong Festival as the world’s cultural heritages, Tieu said.

Their recognitions will be significant to the celebrations of the capital city’s millennial birthday, he noted./.