Hanoi Reading Culture Ambassador Contest 2024

Attending the program were delegates: Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Trinh Thi Thuy; Vice Chairman of Hanoi People's Committee Vu Thu Ha... along with representatives of departments, agencies and a large number of contestants.

The contest is organized to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Liberation of the Capital (October 10, 1954 - October 10, 2024).

Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Trinh Thi Thuy and delegates attending the program

Speaking at the program, Director of the Hanoi Department of Culture and Sports Do Dinh Hong said: With the theme: "The Reading Culture Ambassador Contest 2024 is organized with higher requirements on quality and scale with the aim of creating a useful and interesting playground for teenagers and students in Hanoi; spreading the passion for reading to the younger generation; introducing and promoting the thousand-year-old capital of Hanoi in the process of integration and development; exchanging and sharing experiences of reading and developing a reading culture. From there, encourage and promote the reading movement in schools and communities, forming habits and improving reading skills for students; encouraging them to strive to study and through specific actions and deeds to contribute to building the capital "Cultured - Civilized - Modern".

Director of Hanoi Department of Culture and Sports Do Dinh Hong spoke at the program.

According to Mr. Do Dinh Hong, the organization of this year's contest has been carried out thoroughly and methodically, from planning to issuing the contest rules; from setting up criteria to organizing the selection of entries. The highlight of this year's contest compared to previous years is that the Organizing Committee has combined two forms of collective competition (book promotion) and individual competition (Reading Culture Ambassador).

In the collective competition, teams select and introduce books about Hanoi - City for Peace - Creative City; about the culture, people, history, famous places, and revolutionary traditions of the heroic capital. As for the individual competition, contestants submit entries in the form of articles, video clips, or paintings, and innovate and make each presentation and speech on stage more attractive.

The final round's contests were carefully invested in terms of content and form.

This year's contest received 354,632 entries (articles, video clips, paintings) from 1,335 primary, secondary and high schools in the city; together with 546 communes, wards and towns forming teams to participate in the collective competition (book promotion and introduction).

Previously, in 02 days (August 15 and 16, 2024), the Organizing Committee judged the preliminary round of the competition. Through the preliminary round, the Organizing Committee selected 06 individuals and 06 excellent groups to compete in the final round.

Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Trinh Thi Thuy and Vice Chairman of Hanoi People's Committee Vu Thu Ha presented the first prize to the winning individual.

"The quality of this year's contest was highly appreciated by the jury in both content and form, the number of entries sent to the Organizing Committee increased by nearly 300% compared to 2023. It can be said that the contest with the participation of all levels, departments and branches; especially the close coordination of the Library Department, the Propaganda Department of the City Party Committee, the Department of Culture and Sports, the Department of Education and Training, the Department of Information and Communications, the Hanoi Youth Union; between the Hanoi Library and the People's Committee, the Department of Culture and Information, the Department of Education and Training, the Center for Culture, Information and Sports, the Youth Union of districts, towns has brought many good results" - Mr. Do Dinh Hong emphasized.

Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Trinh Thi Thuy and Vice Chairman of Hanoi People's Committee Vu Thu Ha awarded the first prize to the winning team.

In the final round, the teams invested a lot of effort in their performance, showing that this activity attracted great attention from the localities.

The team from Dong Anh district has excellently recreated the history of Hanoi's revolutionary struggle against foreign invaders since the Party and Uncle Ho led it through the book "The heroic spirit of Thang Long in the Ho Chi Minh era". The team from Tay Ho district brought the audience back to the cultural space with beautiful, poetic landscapes of an old Hanoi through the book "Old Hanoi Streets". Meanwhile, contestant Tran Bao Long from Soc Son district surprised the audience with his self-composed poem "The soft book pillow" that accompanied his childhood....

Delegates take souvenir photos with the winning candidates

And the heroic spirit of Thang Long - Hanoi continues to be highlighted and deeply engraved by the teams through the books "There is a Hanoi in me", "From the capital to the capital", "Telling ancient stories of Thang Long - Hanoi",...

Evaluating the preliminary round of the contest, the jury said that this year's participating teams were all well-prepared and serious; investing heavily in music, accompaniment, costumes, singing, and dancing, which was demonstrated through the quality of both the content and form of their entries. Many contestants had ways of presenting and introducing books, spreading reading culture in an attractive, creative, and exciting way. Many competing teams left a deep impression and lingering emotions in the hearts of viewers.

At the end of the final round, the Organizing Committee awarded prizes to outstanding groups and individuals./.

Source: https://toquoc.vn/lan-toa-niem-dam-me-doc-sach-doi-voi-the-he-tre-thong-qua-cuoc-thi-dai-su-van-hoa-doc-ha-noi-2024-20240820234322681.htm