YBP – In the evening of November 10, 2017, at the Stadium of Dai Minh Commune, the People's Committee of Yen Binh district in collaboration with the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism held the opening ceremony of the festival of Dai Minh Pomelo and boat race on Thac Ba Lake in 2017. It is the part of the Yen Bai Tourism Year 2017 program and the National Tourism Year 2017 - Lao Cai - Northwest.
Attending the opening ceremony were Ms. Pham Thi Thanh Tra - Secretary of Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of People's Council; Mr. Do Duc Duy - Deputy Secretary of the provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the provincial People's Committee; standing members of the provincial Party Committee, People's Council, leaders of the provincial People's Committee; leaders of departments, unions of Yen Bai province; leaders of Doan Hung, Ha Hoa districts of Phu Tho province; Ham Yen Yen Son districts of Tuyen Quang province; leaders of districts, towns and city of Yen Bai province; Leaders of District Party Committee, People's Committee of Yen Binh District; units, organizations, companies, enterprises and many people in Yen Binh district.
Yen Binh is a gateway district in the east of Yen Bai province, a rich land associated with the legend of Thac Ba, Thac Ong and memories of Ngoc market, Nga market. Yen Binh is also formed by a large lake with over 1,300 large and small islands. It also preserves the traditional cultural values of long ago, which produced and handed down traditional cultural values of ethnic minority people.
People here have preserved a kind of Pomelo known as Dai Minh pomelo originating about 300 years ago. Grapefruit is taken care of from the water source originated from legendary Mo Co well that made grapefruit taste unique. Dai Minh pomelos were recognized the brand in November in 2016 by the Ministry of Intellectual Property Ministry Science and Technology. Currently the total area of pomelos of the district is over 800ha, mainly concentrated in Dai Minh and Han Da with over 450ha, the rest are scattered in the other communes in the district. The annual output of pomelos is over 11,000 tons, bringing about VND 50 billion to local people.
Coming to Yen Binh district, tourists will have experience, interesting discovery, deep impression with the unique tourism products and many diverse activities such as discovering the National scence Thac Ba lake, historical sites of spiritual culture such as Temples of Thac Ba; Phuc Hoa pagoda (Han Da commune), Cua Ngoi temple; Noi pagoda and Kha Linh communal house (Dai Minh commune). Experiencing community cultural values in Vu Linh, Phuc An communes; exploring the garden tourism in the special pomelo area of Dai Minh, Han Da, Thac Ba Town; Enjoying the culinary culture and delicacies of ethnic people such as: rice, dried buffalo meat or Ninh Mon hicken, fish salad; Thac Ba specialties…
Speaking at the opening ceremony, Mr. Nguyen Van Trong - Chairman of People's Committee of Yen Binh District - Head of Festival Organizing Committee emphasized: Festival of Dai Minh pomelos and boat race on Thac Ba lake is one of a series of activities in the Tourism Year of Yen Bai province, in response to the 2017 National Tourism Year - Lao Cai - Northwest. This is also an opportunity to connect cultural- tourism products, contributing to promoting links tourism development Yen Binh district with neighbouring districts, provinces in the country and in the world, to promote the potentials, strengths, attract investment to build unique tourism products, creating new development for tourism Yen Binh district. He expressed his gratitude and hope to continue receiving the attention and help of the province, the districts, international guests, units, organizations, business community at home and abroad so that Yen Binh district firmly steps on the path of innovation, integration and development.
At the opening ceremony, there was a special art show entitled "Yen Binh - The land of specialities and landscapes" with the participation of more than 70 artists, professional actors and public art actors.
Right after the opening ceremony, delegates and visitors visited the exhibition booths at the fair including the products of Dai Minh Pomelo; the art gallery exhibition entitled " Yen Binh land and people".
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By Nguyen Hien