On the morning of October 2, informing Lao Dong, a representative of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Tuyen Quang province said that this unit had proposed to the Provincial People's Committee to stop organizing the Thanh Tuyen Festival 2025.
"Stop organizing Thanh Tuyen Festival activities in 2025 to mobilize maximum forces to participate in overcoming the consequences of floods as well as ensuring the safety of the people. Today, the Provincial People's Committee will make an official decision," said a representative of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Tuyen Quang province.
According to the plan, the Thanh Tuyen Festival 2025 program with the highlight being Thanh Tuyen Night will take place on the evening of October 4 at Nguyen Tat Thanh Square. Many days before, the preparation work had been basically completed.
Due to the influence of storm No. 10, floods from the night of September 29 to October 1 caused many areas in Tuyen Quang to be deeply flooded. To date, the locality has recorded 6 deaths and missing people, and more than 4,000 houses have been flooded.
According to statistics from the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Tuyen Quang, as of noon on October 1, 69 communes and wards reported affected and damaged crops with a total area of 2,973.8 hectares.
This is the second consecutive year that the Thanh Tuyen Festival cannot take place due to the impact of floods. In 2024, Tuyen Quang province also decided to stop Thanh Tuyen Festival to focus on overcoming the severe impacts of floods after Typhoon Yagi.
Tuyen Thanh Festival was first held in 2004. It was then upgraded to the provincial level in 2014 and has since become a special cultural event of Tuyen Quang province every Mid-Autumn Festival.
Currently, Tuyen Thanh Festival is considered the largest and most unique Mid-Autumn Festival in the country, with many records confirmed by the Vietnamese Guinness Book of Records such as the Festival with many unique and largest Mid-Autumn Festival models in Vietnam, "The Largest Mid-Autumn Festival in Vietnam", "The Largest pair of lanterns in Vietnam".
Millions of arms turn to compatriots affected by storms and floods
Consecutive storms No. 8, 9, 10 and floods caused by the storm have caused hundreds of casualties and missing people. Many houses and production and business establishments had their roofs blown off and suffered heavy damage. People across the northern and central mountainous provinces are struggling to cope with floods and heavy losses in human lives and property due to floods and thunderstorms.
"A piece of food when hungry is worth a package when full", with the spirit of mutual love that has always been a beautiful image of the Vietnamese people, the Golden Heart Social Charity Fund calls on domestic and foreign philanthropists to join hands to share with people affected by floods to have food, clothing, shelter, students have books to go to school...
The Golden Heart Social Charity Fund would like to sincerely thank the precious feelings of agencies, businesses, and domestic and foreign philanthropists.
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