Delegates attending the Spring Festival pay tribute to Uncle Ho.

Attending the event were comrades: Ha Trung Chien, Member of the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee, Secretary of the City Party Committee, Chairman of the City People's Council; Hoang Ngan Hoan, Director of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, and city leaders. The program mobilized over 1,000 artisans, athletes, and mass actors from communes and wards of the City to participate, along with a large number of people and tourists to watch and cheer.

City leaders offer flowers at Uncle Ho's Monument with ethnic people of the Northwest.

Delegates offer incense at Uncle Ho Temple at Northwest Square.

Before the opening ceremony, the City's leaders offered incense and flowers at the Uncle Ho Monument with the ethnic minorities of the Northwest and the Uncle Ho Temple at the Northwest Square; reported to President Ho Chi Minh the outstanding results in economic, social, defense and security development of the City in the past year, with the impressive achievement of Son La City being recognized by UNESCO as a "Global Learning City" network. The City Party Committee has successfully completed its tasks in 2024 and has successfully completed its tasks for 5 consecutive years. Before the spirit of the great President Ho Chi Minh, cadres, party members and people of all ethnic minorities in Son La City vow to study and follow his ideology, morality and style for the rest of their lives, striving to build a clean and strong City Party Committee in all aspects, contributing to building Son La province to develop greenly, quickly and sustainably.

Comrade Ha Trung Chien, Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Secretary of the City Party Committee, beat the drum to open the festival.

The opening of the “Spring Festival for Uncle Ho” was a special art program with singing and dancing performances praising the country’s innovation and celebrating the glorious Party performed by singers, mass actors and staff of the Son La City Center for Communication and Culture.

Opening ceremony

Opening ceremony

In the beautiful sunny weather, the folk dance competition received cheers from many people and tourists. There were 12 teams participating in the competition. from communes and wards in the City. Each team brings to the Spring Festival a unique performance, carefully and meticulously staged on impressive music, with the theme of praising the homeland, the country, and honoring traditional culture.

Folk dance competition of Chieng An ward.

Folk dance competition of Chieng Le ward.

Each performance has at least 60 actors participating, creating a lively and exciting collective performance, bringing a vibrant atmosphere to the spring festival, and attracting a large audience to watch and cheer.

Competition of Chieng Xom commune.

The teams compete in throwing the shuttlecock.

Quick Math test.

Stilt walking competition.

"Spring Festival for Uncle Ho" also includes sports activities and folk games such as: To mak le, throwing con, and walking on stilts.

Crowds of people came to watch and cheer for the teams.

"Spring Festival for Uncle Ho" is an annual activity organized by the City. Over many years of organization, the Spring Festival has become an ideal meeting place at the beginning of each new year with many exciting activities, honoring traditional cultural values, arousing national pride and awareness and responsibility of the community in preserving and promoting national cultural identity. The Spring Festival has also become a special spiritual food for ethnic people every time Tet comes, Spring comes, a meaningful reunion at the beginning of the year, creating a joyful and exciting atmosphere, encouraging and motivating cadres, party members and people of Son La city to respond to patriotic emulation movements, actively work in production, unite and be determined to successfully achieve the socio-economic development goals in 2025.

The organizers awarded first prizes to the teams.

At the end of the competition, the Organizing Committee awarded 5 first prizes, 6 second prizes, 8 third prizes and 6 consolation prizes to the winning teams in each category. In particular, the first prize in the juggling competition belonged to Chieng Sinh ward, the first prize in the to mak le competition belonged to Hua La commune, the first prize in the stilt competition for men and women belonged to Chieng Den commune and the first prize in the folk dance competition belonged to Chieng An ward.

City leaders participate in solidarity.

Solidarity circle at the Spring Festival to offer to Uncle Ho.

Solidarity circle at the Spring Festival to offer to Uncle Ho.

The spring festival ended with a solidarity dance with the participation of artisans and mass actors from communes and wards, creating a vibrant, joyful and exciting atmosphere.

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