Speaking at the closing ceremony, Secretary of the Hanoi PartyCommittee Pham Quang Nghi said that the festival was a significantactivity that coincided with the 80 th founding anniversary of theCommunist Party of Vietnam and opened up a series of events incelebration of 1,000 year-old Thang Long-Hanoi.
With the participation of more than 600 press agencies, the largestnumber so far, the Spring Newspaper Festival 2010 brought in a specialspiritual “food” for people on the occasion of the traditional Tet(Lunar New Year) festival, he said, adding that it also created anebullient emulation atmosphere among press agencies and journalistsnationwide.
Nghi stressed that the Party, State and people always highly value therole of the press – a vanguard in the cause of national defence andconstruction./.