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Phu Tho province will spare no efforts to host the annual pilgrim festival dedicated to Vietnamese ancestors, which will be held in middle of this month, the province’s leaders said.

The Hung Kings Temple festival will see no visitors being overcharged, nor illegal dishes of endangered wildlife on sale this year , the organising board said at a press conference on March 30.

The nomination paper for Xoan singing to be recognised as an intangible cultural heritage of humanity must be submitted to UNESCO before March 31.

The steering committee for tourism cooperation in eight northwestern provinces held a session on February 25 to set tasks for 2016 and discuss the organisation of the 2017 National Tourism Year.

The anniversary of the Hung Kings and the Hung Kings Temple Festival will take place from April 12-16 (the sixth to 10th day of the third lunar month) in the northern mountainous province of Phu Tho.

“Hat Xoan” (Xoan singing) in Vietnam’s northern province of Phu Tho, has been revived after its recognition as an intangible cultural heritage in need of urgent safeguarding by UNESCO.

A festival dedicated to the nation’s legendary mother Au Co kicked off in Ha Hoa district, the northern province of Phu Tho, on February 14, the 7th day of the Lunar New Year.

The northern province of Phu Tho is devising measures to realise its export target of 1.3 billion USD by 2020, up 12 percent annually.

Authorities of the northern province of Phu Tho have earmarked 4.5 trillion VND (202.5 million USD) for upgrading and embellishing the Hung Kings Temple complex.

Lam Thao district in the midland province of Phu Tho has become the first district recognised as new-style area in the northern mountainous region.

The northern province of Phu Tho was has been recently praised for being the first locality in the country to use software to manage payments of land tax and other fees and related processes.

The northern midland province of Phu Tho reeled in 17.2 trillion VND (781 million USD) of investment this year, becoming one of the top five localities in terms of development investment attraction.

The Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung signed off on a 2.2 trillion VND (97.6 million USD) investment package for infrastructure development of the Cam Khe Industrial Park in northern Phu Tho province.

A new bridge connecting Phu Tho province and Hanoi capital city across Da River was inaugurated at a ceremony in Phu Tho’s Thanh Thuy district on December 20.