On the morning of March 20, the Ministry of Information and Communications (TT&TT) and the Vietnam Association of Photographic Artists organized the launch of the photo and video contest “Happy Vietnam – Happy Vietnam 2024”.
Speaking to launch the contest, Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Thanh Lam said that in 2012, the United Nations chose March 20 as the International Day of Happiness – to emphasize the role of happiness and satisfaction in promoting happiness. sustainable development and poverty reduction, while emphasizing the importance of happiness and human rights in each country’s policy making process.
Vietnam commits to support, act, actively and make more efforts to build a fair world, sustainable development and bring happiness to humanity.
Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Thanh Lam spoke. Photo: Le Anh Dung
The contest is one of the key activities of a series of media events – exhibitions on human rights in Vietnam 2024. The Deputy Minister shared that the contest was first initiated in 2023 and has achieved success. extremely impressive, received and highly appreciated by the domestic and foreign public.
In 2024, the contest will be held for the second time, launched on a national scale to attract the participation of a large number of authors from all over the country. Authors, both professional and amateur, Vietnamese and foreign, domestic or foreign, can participate.
Deputy Minister Nguyen Thanh Lam emphasized the goal of the contest to discover and honor meaningful moments and stories in all aspects of Vietnam’s political, economic, cultural and social life through Photo and video works submitted by domestic and international authors vividly affirm the achievements that Vietnam has achieved in the field of human rights.
Mobilizing the combined strength of all classes of people at home, the Vietnamese community abroad and international friends in communication work, promoting the image of the country and people of Vietnam to the world in order to affirming to the world that Vietnam is a peaceful, beautiful, dynamically developing and happy country.
Delegates attended the contest launching ceremony. Photo: Le Anh Dung
Contest works highly promote the image of the country and people of Vietnam, cultural and natural values throughout all regions of the country; Arousing national pride and the desire for development in all walks of life to join hands in building an increasingly prosperous, prosperous and happy Vietnam.
Truly and vividly reflects development achievements in all aspects of Vietnam’s political, economic, cultural and social life, especially in the work of innovation, development and national integration. international.
Conveying valuable knowledge, attracting strong public attention and spreading widely at home and abroad.
The Ministry of Information and Communications encourages localities to respond to the International Day of Happiness and organize photo and video contests at the local level.
Director of the Department of Foreign Information Pham Anh Tuan. Photo: Le Anh Dung
Director of the Department of Foreign Information (Ministry of Information and Communications) Pham Anh Tuan said that a new point of this year’s contest, in addition to domestic and international press agencies, also includes the participation of KOLs and KOL management companies to help spread and connect to cyberspace about the competition.
According to the Organizing Committee, the work was created from January 1, 2022 to the time of receipt and has never been submitted to a competition or won a prize at any previous competitions and exhibitions.
About 100 – 150 works entering the final round will be selected for exhibition to serve foreign information work at home and abroad.
Each contest category has prizes: 1 gold medal 70 million VND, 2 silver medals 20 million VND, 3 bronze medals 10 million VND, 10 Consolation prizes 5 million VND, 1 most voted work 5 million.