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Tens of thousands of locals in the northern mountainous province of Tuyen Quang as well as tourists flocked to Chiem Hoa district on February 4 to join the Long Tong (going to the field) festival, a unique and most typical agricultural festival of the Tay, a big ethnic minority group in the locality.

The Kim Binh historical site in the northern province of Tuyen Quang received a certificate accrediting it as a special national relic site at a ceremony on February 2.

Long Tong (going to the field) is the most typical agricultural festival of the Tay, a big ethnic minority group living in the northern mountain region with a population of over 1.6 million.

The northern mountainous province of Tuyen Quang has six more communes recognised as meeting new-style rural area standards this year, raising the province’s total to 16 communes.

The northern mountainous province of Tuyen Quang has set to plant 11,400 hectares of new forests in 2017, raising its forest coverage to over 60 percent.

The Vietnam News Agency (VNA) held a conference on December 9 with leaders from 16 northern mountainous provinces on ways to improve the quality of VNA’s specialized pictorial newspaper on ethnic minorities and mountainous region.

Hồng Thái is a remote commune in Na Hang district, the northern mountainous province Tuyên Quang. Since a safe green vegetable model was deployed, the locality has changed noticeably.

The Viet Bac region will showcase its tourism potential through a programme named “Travelling through heritage areas of Viet Bac” and the 2016 Tuyen Quang City festival from September 9-12.

An area covering three northern provinces has been designated for the conservation of cultural and historical values and revolutionary war-zone relics, as well as the development of agroforestry.

Charming then singing tunes, a traditional kind of oratorio art in Vietnam, together with the melodious sounds of the gourd lute immediately impress visitors on arriving at Tuyen Quang province.

A temple dedicated to Bau Lords has been inaugurated as the Tuyen Quang province People’s Committee preserves Bau Citadel, a national relic site.

The Prime Minister has entrusted the Ministry of Finance to supply more than 667 tonnes of rice from national reserves for Phu Yen and Tuyen Quang provinces.

An ancient semicircular musical stone (khanh da co) has been unearthed at Phu Lam pagoda, Yen Son district, the northern province of Tuyen Quang.

Chiem Hoa district of northern Tuyen Quang province is repairing itself after a hailstorm took its toll across ten local districts on April 3.