The Xuan Que Huong (Homeland Spring) 2015 program, an annual event intended for overseas Vietnamese (OVs) who return home for Tet (Lunar New Year), will take place in Ho Chi Minh City from February 7-8, a Ministry of Foreign Affairs official has said.
So far, about 1,500 OVs have registered to attend the program, which will be organized by the ministry’s State Commission for Overseas Vietnamese Affairs and the city People’s Committee, said Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Vu Hong Nam at a press briefing in the city on Friday.
The number of people who have registered to attend is 900 more than previously expected, Deputy Minister Nam said.
With the theme of “Glorious Fatherland,” the program will include special cultural and art activities imbued with traditional identities of the upcoming Tet, which will fall on February 19, Nam said.
This is the first time that the program will be organized in the city, he added.
The program will officially kick off at the Ho Chi Minh Museum at Nha Rong Wharf in District 4 on February 7, with the participation of high-ranking leaders of the Party and State, overseas Vietnamese and domestic and foreign delegates.
President Truong Tan Sang and representatives of OVs will give incense to the late President Ho Chi Minh at the wharf as well as to the Hung Kings at the Historical, Cultural and Ethnic Park in District 9.
On February 8, the leader and OVs will perform a carp-releasing ritual, a Tet custom, into the Tau Hu Canal in the city.
Under the program, OVs will tour Cu Chi District, where they will visit the Cu Chi Tunnels and pay tribute to heroic martyrs at the Ben Duoc Temple, among other special activities.
In Vietnam’s capital Hanoi and some neighboring provinces, similar Homeland Spring 2015 programs will be also organized for OVs on February 9, 10 and 11, the foreign ministry said.
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