On the morning of October 9, in Hanoi, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, held a press conference to inform about the Vietnam Handicraft Product Competition associated with the Exhibition "Colors of Cultural Heritage, Nature and Traditional Vietnamese Craft Products" in 2024.
Mr. Le Duc Thinh - Director of the Department of Economic Cooperation and Rural Development (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development) spoke at the press conference to inform about the Vietnam Handicraft Product Competition associated with the Exhibition "Colors of Cultural Heritage, Nature and Traditional Vietnamese Handicraft Products" in 2024. Photo: Khuong Luc
“This year’s Vietnam Handicraft Product Competition is the 5th time it has been held and this is an annual competition organized by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development within the framework of the Program for the Development and Preservation of Vietnamese Craft Villages approved by the Prime Minister ” – Mr. Le Duc Thinh – Director of the Department of Cooperative Economics and Rural Development (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development) informed and said that up to now, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development is the only unit organizing a national-scale handicraft product competition with a prestigious and talented jury.
The award-winning author will be one of the conditions for proposing recognition of artisans at all levels.
Speaking at the press conference, Ms. Nguyen Thi Hoang Yen, Deputy Director of the Department of Economic Cooperation and Rural Development, informed that the 2024 Vietnam Handicraft Product Contest aims to honor, inspire and encourage authors to promote creative ideas to create new handicraft products that are both technical, aesthetic, highly applicable and meet the criteria for sustainable development in the period of international integration.
The 2024 Vietnam Handicraft Product Competition will create an environment for exchanging experiences and knowledge about the production and trading of handicraft products, contributing to preserving and promoting the national cultural identity of traditional occupations, craft villages, and traditional craft villages.
Along with that, the contest will connect businesses that purchase and consume handicraft products with craft villages and traditional craft villages to promote consumption, increase product value and improve workers' income. In particular, the authors who win prizes at the contest will have one of the conditions to propose for recognition of artisans at all levels.
According to the Organizing Committee, all organizations and individuals regardless of profession, age, gender; have full civil capacity; have the ability to compose and produce handicraft products in accordance with the regulations (except for members of the Organizing Committee and the jury) will be allowed to participate in the contest. Contest products are divided into 5 groups: ceramic and glass group; weaving, embroidery, knitting, crochet group; rattan, bamboo, natural leaves group; stone, wood art group, lacquer, mother-of-pearl inlay group; other group (horn, metal, flowers, paintings ...). Photo: Khuong Luc
The Organizing Committee will receive entries from October 28, 2024 to November 1, 2024 (receiving entries during office hours) at the Vietnam Exhibition Center for Culture and Arts, located at 2 Hoa Lu, Le Dai Hanh Ward, Hai Ba Trung District, Hanoi.
After the results are available, the Standing Committee of the Contest will publicly announce the list of products of the winning authors and groups of authors on the Website: http://www.sanphamthucongmynghe.gov.vn; http://www.dcrd.gov.vn.
Regarding the prize structure, the Contest will have 5 first prizes, 10 second prizes, 15 third prizes and 15 consolation prizes. Depending on the actual situation, the Head of the Contest Organizing Committee will consider adjusting and supplementing the structure and value of the prizes accordingly.
All winning products will be awarded with a Commemorative Medal and a Certificate of Winning Products from the Organizing Committee of the Contest. The Organizing Committee will also consider and propose the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development to award Certificates of Merit to collectives and individuals with many achievements in organizing the Contest.
Crafts and rural industries are the "support" for rural development.
The new point this year is that the winning products and typical works of the contest will be displayed at the Exhibition "Colors of cultural heritage, nature and traditional handicrafts of Vietnam" organized by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism; Nghe An Provincial People's Committee in coordination with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, and relevant units in Nghe An province (from November 22-26, 2024).
“By participating in this Exhibition, we hope to firstly elevate the profession, works, and products as evidence of the intangible and tangible heritage of Vietnamese professions and products; Second, it is very meaningful to be held in the homeland of President Ho Chi Minh - a leader who is very interested in developing handicrafts as he said that handicrafts and rural industries are the foundations for rural development” - Mr. Thinh shared.
Vietnam is one of the few countries with a large number of craft villages, especially traditional craft villages. Rural areas across the country have 5,400 craft villages, of which about 2,212 are recognized as craft villages and nearly 400 are traditional craft villages.
With over 2,000 traditional craft villages, handicrafts are always in the top 10 largest export items of Vietnam. Rural industries are creating a value of nearly 300,000 billion VND per year and exporting to 164 countries and territories with a value of about 3 billion USD/year.
According to Mr. Thinh, the professions not only bring economic material, welfare, jobs, but most importantly, they are also cultural sediments from North to South, through regions such as: bronze casting, bamboo and rattan weaving, jewelry, embroidery, lacquerware...
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