Ba Ria - Vung Tau: Spring Newspaper Festival 2024 - Innovation and Creativity for the Cause of Industrialisation and Modernisation

DNHN - Every spring, the Ba Ria-Vung Tau Journalists Association and the Department of Information and Communications hold the Spring Newspaper Festival. This year, more than 100 publications from across the country are being exhibited.

This year, more than 100 press publications from across the country are being exhibited at two locations: the Vung Tau City Centre for Culture - Information - Sports and the Phu My Town Centre for Culture - Information.

With the theme: “Ba Ria-Vung Tau Press Continues to Innovate and Create for the Cause of Industrialisation and Modernisation of the Homeland and Country”, the 2024 Spring Newspaper Festival has six exhibition booths, showcasing the full range of Spring publications from national press agencies and displaying news bulletins and special editions from provincial departments, agencies, and organisations, as well as publications and newly published literary and artistic works in the province.

Mr Phan Duc Hien - Chairman of the Ba Ria-Vung Tau (BR-VT) Journalists Association, said: “The 2024 Spring Newspaper Festival is an opportunity to showcase the robust development of the Vietnamese press in general and the BR-VT provincial press in particular over the past year, while also meeting the public’s demand to enjoy the beauty and quality of the Spring newspaper publications distributed nationwide on the occasion of the Lunar New Year. Each newspaper article, page, and Spring newspaper issue is a refined product of each press agency, the result of the creative labour of journalists, making the Spring press landscape of BR-VT and the whole country even more vibrant. On the threshold of the New Year 2024, we hope and believe that each journalist and member of the provincial Journalists Association will continue to improve their professional skills, political stance, and professional ethics to become worthy soldiers on the Party’s ideological and cultural front.”

In 2023, Ba Ria-Vung Tau province overcame difficulties and achieved positive results in most areas. The economy continued to grow; the efficiency and operation of the seaport system were gradually being improved; the tourism environment was improved, etc.

It can be affirmed that the achievements of the province have been accompanied by the important contributions of the press corps. Along with the national press, the BR-VT provincial press has continuously improved and matured in terms of form, content, and quality, providing multi-dimensional and diverse information and increasingly gaining a worthy position in the spiritual life of the people.

The press agencies and journalists of BR-VT have effectively played the role of a bridge between the Party and the people. Closely following the Party’s guidelines, policies, and laws, the press has promptly reflected, analysed, and accurately assessed all information, contributing to raising public awareness and guiding public opinion on current events and issues in the province in particular, and the country and the world in general, thereby effectively promoting the province’s potential and strengths. The press is also an important and useful information channel for provincial leaders and functional agencies in carrying out their tasks and finding timely solutions to emerging issues, Mr Hien added at the opening ceremony.

It is known that the Spring Newspaper Festival has been held since 1999 to showcase the vigorous development of the provincial press in the cause of renovation. Over the years, the Spring Newspaper Festival of Ba Ria Vung Tau province has increasingly affirmed its stature and reputation, becoming one of the official activities that kick off cultural activities and festivals, enriching the spiritual and cultural life of the people and tourists.

Thu Hien - Bich Lien