The northern province of Hai Duong has signed a Memorandum of Understanding on expanding cooperation with the neighbouring province of Bac Giang during the period from 2020 to 2025.
The special national relic site Con Son – Kiep Bac in Chi Linh city, the northern province of Hai Duong, welcomed about 120,000 visitors from September 13 to 18 during its autumn festival, up about 40 percent year on year.
The Con Son – Kiep Bac Autumn Festival 2019 kicked off in the northern province of Hai Duong on September 15, or the 17th day of the eighth lunar month.
A ceremony was held in the Red River Delta province of Hai Duong on April 20 evening to announce the National Assembly (NA)’s Resolution on the establishment of Chi Linh city based on the township of the same name.
Local authorities in the northern province of Bac Giang have started initial steps to restore ancient relics on the West Yen Tu mountain range, where King-Monk Tran Nhan Tong (1258-1308) studied and practiced Buddhism.
A Buddhist ritual praying for peace and security for the nation and its people took place at the Con Son Pagoda in the northern province of Hai Duong on Feb. 18.
The Con Son-Kiep Bac spring festival 2019 is scheduled to take place at the Con Son-Kiep Bac special national relic site in the northern province of Hai Duong from February 14-27, or the 10th-23rd day of the first lunar month.
The northern province of Bac Giang has successfully secured more than 1.5 billion USD in 16 tourism projects at an investment promotion conference held in Bac Giang city on October 10.
A heaven-earth sacrificing ritual was held on March 4 at Ngu Nhac Mountain in Con Son – Kiep Bac special national relic site in the northern province of Hai Duong.
The Con Son-Kiep Bac 2018 Spring Festival opened at Con Son Pagoda in the northern province of Hai Duong on March 3 (the 16th day of the first lunar month).
Con Son-Kiep Bac complex was listed as a national relic in 1962 and as special national relic in 2012. Since 2010, Hai Duong has carried out several conservation projects, including that of the Kiep Bac Temple.
The list of national treasures has been expanded with the addition of 24 new national treasures under a recent approval decision of Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.
Bac Giang is striving to receive over 1 million visitors by the end of this year, according to Director of the provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism Tran Minh Ha.