15-year anniversary of culture, sports and tourism department merging

Morning of March 31, at Phu Loi Prison remain, the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism held a meeting to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the unification of the Culture, Sports and Tourism sector (April 1, 2008 to April 1, 2023). Attending the event was Nguyen Van Loc - Standing Member, Head of the provincial Committee for Mass Mobilization and Chairman of the provincial Committee of the Vietnamese Fatherland Front, Nguyen Truong Nhat Phuong – Deputy Chairwoman of the provincial People's Council.

Nguyen Van Loc and Nguyen Truong Nhat Phuong present a flower basket to congratulate the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism

At the meeting, generations of cadres, civil servants, officials and employees of the Culture, Sports and Tourism Department together reviewed the tradition and the 15-year development of the department. On April 1, 2008, the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism officially came into operation on the basis of merging the Department of Culture and Information with the Department of Physical Education and Sports, the Tourism Department from the Department of Trade and Tourism and the Family section from the Population, Family and Children Committee.

Despite tremendous difficulties and challenges in the past 15 years, the collective of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism has always united and strived to develop and achieved many outstanding results in various fields of activities. Through 15 years of construction and development, the staff of the Culture, Sports and Tourism sector have contributed their efforts and enthusiasm to the completion of the tasks, making an important contribution to the cultural development - province's society, especially the task of "Building and developing an advanced Vietnamese culture imbued with national identity."

Speaking at the meeting, Nguyen Van Loc highly appreciated the achievements of the Culture, Sports and Tourism department in recent years; at the same time, it is suggested that the Culture, Sports and Tourism sectors continue to closely follow the political tasks of the province by focusing on effectively implementing the directives, resolutions and legal documents of the central and local authorities related to the work of Culture, Sports and Tourism in accordance with the new situation. Focusing on well implementing the movement of "All people unifying to build a cultural life", bringing the movement into quality operations to achieve practical effects, to strengthen the management of monuments and festivals, to harmoniously combine the conservation and promotion of cultural heritage with economic development and sustainable tourism activities, to maintain and develop physical training and sports movements, to expand into the development of forms of eco-tourism, cultural tourism, to well exploit typical tourism products of Binh Duong, and to promote socialization and diversify investment resources for development of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

On the occasion, the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism organized exciting sports activities, attracting a large number of civil servants, public employees and workers in the whole department.

Reported by Hong Thuan – Translated by Vi Bao