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President Tran Dai Quang praises overseas Vietnamese’s contributions

President Tran Dai Quang praised the contributions of Overseas Vietnamese towards the country’s achievements at a meeting on January 20 with 50 overseas Vietnamese delegates.
President Tran Dai Quang praises overseas Vietnamese’s contributions ảnh 1President Tran Dai Quang (centre) poses for a family photo with Overseas Vietnamese. (Source: VNA)

Ho Chi MinhCity (VNA) – President Tran Dai Quang praised the contributions ofOverseas Vietnamese towards the country’s achievements at a meeting on January20 with 50 overseas Vietnamese delegates.

The delegates represent4.5 million Vietnamese living across the world at the 2017 Xuan Que Huong(Homeland Spring) event in Ho Chi Minh City.

The Presidentappreciated the Committee for Overseas Vietnamese Affairs and the HCM CityPeople’s Committee for organising the Xuan Que Huong programme and manyactivities to welcome the Overseas Vietnamese back home for the traditionalLunar New Year.

He affirmed theParty and State always consider OVs as an inseparable part of the Vietnamesenation and welcome them back to the home country to engage in nationaldevelopment.

The delegatessaid Vietnamese living abroad always thinks of the homeland and strive topreserve national culture via opening classes to teach the Vietnamese language.They have also actively worked to mobilise resources to contribute to thehomeland’s construction.

The same day, PresidentTran Dai Quang and the delegates offered incense to the Hung Kings, thenation’s founders, at the Hung Kings memorial site in the NationalHistoric-Cultural Park, and to President Ho Chi Minh, the national liberationhero, at the Ho Chi Minh Museum in HCM City.

The Presidentand the delegates also released carps at the Ben Nha Rong wharf in observingthe traditional Kitchen God Day ahead of the Lunar New Year.-VNA

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