Opening of the 2025 International Tea Festival

On the evening of December 5, the 2025 International Tea Festival officially opened at Lam Vien Square, Xuan Huong Ward, Lam Dong Province.

Delegates attending the 2025 International Tea Festival.

Attending the event were former National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan, Deputy Prime Minister Bui Thanh Son, leaders of ministries, sectors, localities, Ambassadors and Consuls General of countries in Vietnam, along with a large number of people and tourists.

Speaking at the opening ceremony, Deputy Prime Minister Bui Thanh Son emphasized that recently, Lam Dong province and many localities across the country have suffered heavy damage due to floods.

On behalf of the Government and the Prime Minister , Deputy Prime Minister Bui Thanh Son sent his deepest condolences to the families and people who suffered losses; at the same time, he highly appreciated and commended the efforts, proactive spirit, and drastic participation of the Party Committee, authorities, organizations, armed forces, businesses, and people of Lam Dong province in responding to and overcoming the consequences of natural disasters, and restoring production and business.

The Deputy Prime Minister also sincerely thanked international friends for their support and assistance to Vietnam in general and Lam Dong province in particular.

The Deputy Prime Minister highly appreciated the agencies, organizations and enterprises inside and outside Lam Dong province for their coordination in organizing the very meaningful International Tea Festival, with many rich and practical activities, associated with cultural activities to honor producers, processing and trading enterprises of tea in Lam Dong province and the tea industry nationwide.

The Deputy Prime Minister emphasized that Vietnam has a long history and culture of tea production and consumption. Currently, tea is one of the country's key agricultural products, an industry with a solid position in the world, with the 5th largest planting area and 7th largest output globally, products are exported to more than 70 countries, of which Lam Dong is one of the localities with the most potential in the country, with many good models, good practices, and creativity in developing the tea industry value chain.

In recent times, the Government has given strong direction and issued many policies to remove difficulties and obstacles, creating favorable conditions for people and businesses to produce and trade tea to develop strongly, enhancing the position of Vietnamese tea in the world market, thereby achieving many positive results.

However, the Vietnamese tea industry is still facing many challenges such as the adverse impacts of climate change, weak production-consumption linkages along the value chain, exports mainly in the form of raw materials, limited promotion and advertising, and a lack of strong brands.

In order for the Vietnamese tea industry to develop more and more sustainably in a green, clean, high-quality and high-value direction, the Deputy Prime Minister requested ministries, branches and localities, including Lam Dong province, to continue to promote the restructuring of the tea industry; effectively implement the Project on developing key industrial crops by 2030, including tea, towards large-scale production, linking along value chains, applying high technology, deep processing, diversifying products, meeting international standards; developing organic, circular production models, exploiting multi-value, associated with culture, tourism and services; protecting the environment, adapting to climate change; focusing on building and developing strong brands of the Vietnamese tea industry.

The Deputy Prime Minister also expressed his hope that international partners will continue to expand investment and business cooperation and apply high technology to help the tea industry of Lam Dong province and Vietnam in general develop production and expand markets.

Deputy Prime Minister Bui Thanh Son expressed his hope that international partners will continue to expand investment and business cooperation and apply high technology to help the tea industry of Lam Dong province and Vietnam in general develop production and expand markets.

With the spirit of "harmonious benefits and shared risks", the Government will always accompany and create favorable conditions for domestic and foreign investors and enterprises in the tea industry to feel secure in investing, producing and doing business in Vietnam, the Deputy Prime Minister affirmed.

The Deputy Prime Minister believes that with the initiative, creativity, desire for innovation and determination to constantly improve of localities, businesses and each person in Lam Dong as well as in the whole country, Vietnamese agricultural products in general and Vietnamese tea products in particular will affirm their quality, high reputation, strong brand, solid position in the regional and world markets, and be the pride of the beautiful Vietnam in the new era.

According to Vice Chairman of Lam Dong Provincial People's Committee Dinh Van Tuan, with the theme "Connecting the quintessence of tea of ​​humanity", the 2025 International Tea Festival will be held for the first time in Vietnam, taking place from December 5 to 7 in Da Lat, Bao Loc and some typical tea growing areas of the locality.

During the festival, there will be a series of rich activities such as the international tea exhibition festival, the summit on sustainable development of the tea industry, the tea concert, the diplomatic tea program, the street festival and the colorful tea cultural space.

In particular, delegates and visitors will witness impressive records together: A tea-making performance by 1,111 tea farmers, displaying 1,000 ancient tea trees over 100 years old from many countries, with the participation of more than 80 Miss Cosmo beauties from countries famous for tea.

The festival is not only an opportunity for the province and tea production and trading enterprises to introduce their unique tea products and culture to friends and tourists at home and abroad, but also a bridge to strengthen international cooperation relationships with the presence of more than 50 ambassadors, consuls general and more than 80 beauty ambassadors from more than 80 countries.

This festival is also an opportunity to connect tea producers, distributors and consumers, opening up business cooperation opportunities and promoting the global supply chain. It is a journey of discovery for tourists in green tea regions and experiencing tea culture with long-time tea growers.

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