Hanoi Capital

According to data from the travel platform Booking.com, Hanoi is among the top 10 most searched domestic destinations by Vietnamese tourists for the summer of 2023, up 4 places compared to the summer of 2022.

(CPV) - Hanoi implemented a campaign to supplement vitamin A at 1,715 points in four days in early June. The total number of children from 6 to 35 months old who received vitamin A during this campaign was 392,131.

(CPV) - Hanoi City People's Committee has just issued Plan 161/KH-UBND on implementing initiatives to join UNESCO's Creative Cities Network in 2023.

(CPV) – There are 1,350 craft villages in Hanoi while 200 of them are traditional craft villages and many of craft villages are century old with rich cultural and historical values, which is a great potential to develop craft village tourism.

(CPV) - A "food tour map" of Hanoi will be created to help visitors explore specialities of the 1000-year capital in order to further develop culinary tourism into the strength of the tourism sector of the city.

In the first five months of this year, Hanoi reported more than 13,000 newly established enterprises, with a registered capital of VND125,900 billion, according to the City Department of Planning and Investment.

The first Hanoi Technical Innovation Contest was launched by the Hanoi Union of Science and Technology Associations on May 23.

(CPV) - The Hanoi Industrial Products, Machinery, Equipment and Automation Fair in 2023 was organized on May 17 to help businesses introduce their products and strengthen connectivity within the supply chain to raise product quality and competitiveness.

Secretary of the Hanoi Party Committee Dinh Tien Dung hosted Teresa María Amarelle Boúe, a member of the Council of State of Cuba and Secretary General of the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC), in the city on May 16.

On May 9, in Hanoi, a cooperation agreement signing ceremony took place between the Hanoi Supporting Industry Association (HANSIBA) and the Association for the Promotion of Small and Medium Enterprises in Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province (China).

(CPV) - The index of industrial production (IIP) in April in Hanoi increased by 3.3% over the previous month and by 3.6% over the same period in 2022, according to the Hanoi Statistics Office.

(CPV) - According to Program 03-CTr/TU of the Steering Committee of the Hanoi City Party Committee on "urban embellishment, urban development and urban economy in the 2021-2025 period", the city has determined to review and spend resources to preserve and promote the architectural value of typical works, historical and cultural works in the inner city.

On April 27, the Hanoi City People's Committee held a meeting to honour the results of the emulation movement in 2022; and launch the peak emulation round to organize activities celebrating the 75th anniversary of President Ho Chi Minh's "Call for patriotic emulation" (June 11, 1948 - June 11, 2023).

(CPV) - On April 25, Vu Thu Ha, vice chairwoman of the Hanoi People's Committee received Subhash Prasad Gupta, deputy chief of the mission from the Embassy of India in Vietnam to exchange plans to celebrate International Yoga Day and a cultural exchange activities between Vietnam and India in 2023.

(CPV) - A delegation of Hanoi led by Vice Chairwoman of the Hanoi City People’s Council Phung Thi Hong Ha is paying a working visit to Laos from April 20-24.

A delegation from the Hanoi City Public Security led by Lieutenant General Nguyen Hai Trung, Director of the City Public Security, had a working visit to the General Department of the Federal Ministry of Home Affairs of Russia in Moscow, on April 10-16.

Delegates attending the 12th Vietnam-France decentralised cooperation conference on April 16 had a tour surveying the Hoa Lu ancient capital and Trang An landscape complex in Ninh Binh province.

(CPV) - A meeting was organized by the Hanoi Department of Education and Training, the Irish Embassy in Vietnam and the Global Management Organisation of the International Computer Driving Licence (ICDL), the world's leading computer skills certification in Hanoi on April 13 to seek measures to improve computer skills for teachers and students in the capital city.

(CPV) - The “Vietnamese Colors” program, which will display and introduce typical products and culinary culture from many localities along with images of cooperation achievements between Vietnam and France, will take place in Hanoi pedestrian streets in Hoan Kiem district from April 14 to 16.

The Hanoi Party Committee Commission on Popularization and Education has issued an instruction on disseminating the 75th anniversary of President Ho Chi Minh’s call on patriotic emulation (June 11).

On April 13 - 15, Hanoi will host the 12th meeting on cooperation between Vietnamese and French localities, arousing the participation of over 800 delegates from both sides.

The Decision No. 1937/QD-UBND has been recently signed and promulgated by Chairman of the Hanoi People's Committee Tran Sy Thanh to award the title "Good person - good deed" in 2023 to 70 individuals in the capital.

A donation campaign was launched by the Hanoi Party Committee on April 3 to support the Fund "For Vietnam’s sea and islands" in 2023.

Trade promotion for OCOP (One Commune One Product) program has been promoted and exploited by relevant departments and sectors of Hanoi in order to building trademarks such products and increasing consumers' awareness of them.

Hanoi’s consumer price index (CPI) in March 2023 decreased by 0.22% compared to the previous month, increased by 0.62% compared to December 2022 and increased by 1.26% compared to the same period last year, according to the City Statistics Office.

Hanoi welcomed 5.88 million tourist arrivals in the first quarter of 2023, in which international tourists numbered 978,700, according to the City Department of Tourism.

On March 26, the opening ceremony of the Olympics Run Day for People's health and the Ha Noi Moi Newspaper's 48th Run for Peace took place at the intersection of Trang Tien, Hang Khay, Dinh Tien Hoang and the area around Hoan Kiem Lake.

The Vietnam Bank for Social Policies’ (VBSP) branch in Hanoi said it has disbursed 1.049 trillion VND of policy credit capital to nearly 23,800 poor households and other policy beneficiaries in the first quarter of 2023.

This year’s festival, themed "Connecting heritage for tourism development”, opened at the flower garden area of Ba Kieu Temple in the capital of Hanoi, on March 24.

Hanoi plans to implement 167 promotional activities in trade, tourism and investment in 2023, including 50 at the municipal level in order to fulfill the city’s socio-economic development goals.