Southeast Asia Information Port News (www.dnyxxg.com) – On the evening of November 19, 2025, the 2025 Lao Cai Red River Culture Festival, themed "The Place Where the Red River Flows into Vietnam," kicked off at Nam Cuong Square in Kan Tang Ward, Lao Cai Province. The event was jointly organized by Lao Cai Province, various localities along the Red River in Vietnam, and Honghe Prefecture in Yunnan Province, China.
Nguyen Tuan Anh, Deputy Secretary of the Lao Cai Provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, emphasized that 2025 marks the first time Lao Cai has hosted the Red River Culture Festival, initiating the 2025-2035 Red River Culture Festival project. This event is an important event for cultural, economic, and international cooperation, aiming to promote the history, culture, and civilization of the Red River, cultivate national pride, and educate the traditional concept of "remembering the source of one's water." It also serves as an important opportunity to promote economic, trade, and social cooperation and friendly relations between the provinces and cities along the Red River (Vietnam) and Yunnan Province, China.
The Red River Cultural Festival, held from November 18th to 24th in Lao Cai, Kam Tang, and various locations in Lao Cai province, offers a rich and diverse array of attractive cultural, tourism, trade, and sports activities. Visitors can experience a multi-ethnic cultural space, view exhibitions of Red River-themed culture, tourism, photographs, artifacts, and publications, and enjoy folk rituals, songs, dances, and traditional costumes, thus experiencing the soul and charm of the upper Red River region—the place where the Red River flows into Vietnam.
In addition, the festival includes numerous trade, sports, tourism, and friendly exchange activities, such as the Vietnam-China International Trade Fair, a recreation of the former Can Nong Market, the Vietnam-China "Two Countries, One Track" International Cycling Race, and exchange activities for young entrepreneurs in sports and culture between Vietnam and China. Particularly anticipated is the "Lao Cai Mountain Snow Tea Festival—Fragrance of Tea from the Clouds," which will introduce visitors to the unique high-altitude products of the Northwest region, offering a rich ethnic cultural experience.
The Chairman of the Lao Cai Provincial People's Committee emphasized that regularly holding the Red River Culture Festival is a concrete measure to implement the directives of the First Lao Cai Provincial Party Congress (2025-2030) and to welcome the 14th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam. It embodies an innovative spirit and a proactive commitment to international integration, propelling Lao Cai towards becoming an international economic and trade exchange center and a leading cultural and tourism hub in the central and northern mountainous regions, steadily progressing towards a green, harmonious, distinctive, and prosperous future.
Luo Ping, Deputy Secretary of the CPC Honghe Prefecture Committee, Secretary of the Party Group of the Honghe Prefecture People's Government, Governor of Honghe Prefecture, and Head of the Yunnan Provincial Delegation, stated that 2025 marks the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Vietnam, and is also the China-Vietnam Year of People-to-People Exchanges. She believes that with the joint efforts of both sides and the active participation of all delegates, the 2025 Lao Cai Red River Culture Festival and the China-Vietnam Red River Basin Cooperation Week will be increasingly successful; exchanges and cooperation between the two regions will become even closer, injecting new impetus into the development of the China-Vietnam comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership and the building of a strategically significant China-Vietnam community with a shared future, writing an increasingly brilliant new chapter of cooperation between Honghe Prefecture and Lao Cai Province, as well as between Yunnan and the northern provinces of Vietnam.
The 2025 Lao Cai Red River Cultural Festival is not only a grand cultural event but also an important political, economic, and diplomatic activity. It helps implement policies for the development of the cultural industry and tourism, enabling culture to truly become an endogenous driving force and a driving force for sustainable development. Simultaneously, it serves as an important platform for exchanges, cooperation, experience sharing, and consolidation of comprehensive friendly cooperative relations between local governments of China and Vietnam.
Approximately 600 performers participated in this year's festival, along with several renowned singers, dancers, and musicians. Through meticulous preparation, each program fully presented the script, delivering a memorable and spectacular opening ceremony for the audience. (End)
