Ever biggest celebration for HN’s 1000th birthday
10/10/2010
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VGP – The ever biggest national-level parade, the most important event in the 10-day program to celebrate the 1000th birthday anniversary of Thăng Long-Hà Nội, started at 7.46 AM of October 10 at Ba Đình Square.
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The
1000th birthday anniversary of Thăng Long-Hà Nội on October 10, 2010 starts
with 21 battery salvos |
The 120-minute parade, with the participation of
31,000 people, including 12,000 from armed forces, started with a torch procession
from Hồ Chí Minh Museum to the Hồ Chí Minh Mausoleum in the historic Ba
Đình Square, where President Hồ Chí Minh read the Declaration of Independence
to proclaim the birth of modern Việt Nam 65 years ago.
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Party,
State and Government leaders welcomes the 1000th birthday anniversary of Thăng
Long-Hà Nội, Ba Đình Square, October 10, 2010 |
At 8.00 AM, State President
Nguyễn Minh Triết delivered a speech praising the proud history of the
Vietnamese nation and the 1000-year-old capital city of Hà Nội.
A millennium ago, in 1010, King
Lý Thái Tổ transferred the imperial capital from Hoa Lư to Thăng Long (nowadays
Hà Nội), opening a new stage for the development of Việt Nam. Experiencing ups and downs,
Thăng Long-Hà Nội is always the country’s heart and the place of convergence of
national traditions and values.
At the historical moment,
said the State President, all Vietnamese people pledge to link hands in
building up the socialist country of peace, independence, democracy and the Hà
Nội capital city of modernity, civilization and prosperity.
The President’s opening
speech was followed by the parade of 17 military phalanxes, 19 civil ones and ten
helicopters carrying national and Party flags and banners.
The
followings are some photos on the grand anniversary: