A get-together for religious dignitaries was held in Da Nang on Tuesday on the occasion of the forthcoming Lunar New Year 2024.

Secretary of the Da Nang Party Committee Nguyen Van Quang (left), and Chairman of the municipal People's Committee Le Trung Chinh co-chaired the get-together. Photo: X.H

In his remarks at the event, municipal Party Committee Secretary Nguyen Van Quang informed some of remarkable achievements that the city gained in 2023.

Specifically, the Da Nang Master Plan for the 2021 - 2030 period, with a vision to 2050, was approved by the national government. This is considered a very important legal basis for orienting and concretising guidelines and policies for the city development.

With the goal of "no one is left behind", a total of VND 116 billion has been spent giving Tet gifts to social policy families, poor households, and vulnerable people.

He also attributed the city’s aforementioned socio-economic achievements partly to enormous contributions by religious dignitaries and followers.

Da Nang Party Committee Secretary Nguyen Van Quang (left) congratulates religious dignitaries on the occasion of the upcoming Lunar New Year. Photo: X.H

Mr. Nguyen Van Quang expressed his proud that religious dignitaries and followers have always been united and well complied with the Party's guidelines and policies, and the State's laws, as well as accompanied the government in social security work.

Also at the meeting, representatives of religious organisations thanked the city leaders for their special care, and expressed their excitement and joy at the city's achievements in 2023, especially the improvement in economic and tourism fields.

Chairman of the Da Nang People's Committee Le Trung Chinh (right) gives Tet gifts to religious dignitaries. Photo: X.H

Also on the morning of the same day, Parson Nguyen Quang Duc, Head of the city-based Viet Nam Christian Mission Pastor, along with Priest Nguyen Hung, Chairman of the municipal Committee for Catholic Solidarity, paid a pre-Tet visit to the Party Committee of Da Nang.

Pastor Nguyen Quang Duc thanked the Party Committee and government for always supporting, and creating favourable conditions for the Da Nang Committee for Catholic Solidarity and the Viet Nam Christian Mission Pastor to operate well in recent years.

Especially in 2023, thanks to the city's favourable conditions, the Viet Nam Christian Mission Pastor successfully organised its 5^th Congress in the 2023 - 2027 term.

Head of the Da Nang Party Committee's Mass Mobilisation Board Le Van Trung (left) receives a Lunar New Year gift from Pastor Nguyen Quang Duc. Photo: X.H

He affirmed that the Viet Nam Christian Mission Pastor and all parishioners always complied with the guidelines and policies of the Party and State.

Chairman of the Committee for Catholic Solidarity Nguyen Hung expressed his excitement at the city's socio-economic development achievements in 2023, affirming that Catholics will continue to contribute to making Da Nang increasingly peaceful and livable.

Priest Nguyen Hung, Chairman of the municipal Committee for Catholic Solidarity (6th, left) presenting a Tet gift to the Da Nang Party Committee. Photo: X.H

On behalf of the city's leaders, Head of the Da Nang Party Committee's Mass Mobilisation Board Le Van Trung thanked the Da Nang Committee for Catholic Solidarity and the Viet Nam Christian Mission Pastor for their visit.

He hoped that religious organisations in general, and the Da Nang Committee for Catholic Solidarity and the Viet Nam Christian Mission Pastor in particular, will continue to encourage religious followers to comply with the Party's guidelines, policies and the State’s laws, as well as actively get involved in the city's building and development.

​Reporting by XUAN HAU - Translating by M.DUNG