Ever biggest celebration for HN’s 1000th birthday
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.
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.
The 1000th birthday anniversary of Thăng Long-Hà Nội on October 10, 2010 starts with 21 battery salvos
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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
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
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:
  
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