An awards ceremony was held in the city on Thursday to announce the winners of a writing and photo report contest about Da Nang which was launched 9 months ago.

Co-organised by the Da Nang Party Committee of the Government Department and Agency Block and the city’s Portal, the contest attracted a total of around 200 entries from local government employees.

First prize went to Nguyen Thi Lanh from the city's School of Politics for her written entry ‘Da Nang - a Humanity City’.  Le Thi Thu Thanh and Vu Thi Mai Huong, both from the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, shared the second prize with ‘Da Nang Beaches - an Important Hallmark in My Heart’ and ‘Da Nang in My Heart’ written reports respectively . 

The third prize winners were Nguyen Hoai Thu from the Da Nang Preventive Medicine Centre with her story ‘A Person Who Stays Temporarily in Da Nang’, Le Thi Xuan Thao from the city's branch of the State Bank of Viet Nam with ‘Son Tra - Familiar but Strange, Strange but Familiar’, and Hoang Xuan Tra and Le Dinh Vu, both from the Department of Information and Communications, with their ‘Love Story of a Naval Soldier’.