Hop Thanh Commune successfully organized the 2025 Green Rice Festival

On the evening of October 19, at the Hop Thanh Commune Cultural House, the Organizing Committee of the Hop Thanh Com Festival 2025 held a closing ceremony, concluding a series of cultural and sports activities imbued with the identity of local ethnic groups in the highlands.

With the theme of Com Hop Thanh, this year's festival took place in 2 days, October 18 and 19, with many rich activities, attracting many people and tourists. The highlight was the mountain climbing competition "Conquering Nam Ria waterfall", gathering more than 300 athletes from communes, wards, agencies, schools and sports clubs inside and outside the area; Com pounding competitions, highland cuisine, ethnic costume performances, local product display space... creating a vivid picture, bustling with autumn colors of the highland Hop Thanh.

Delegates, people and tourists attend the closing ceremony of Hop Thanh Green Rice Festival 2025.

Ms. Hoang Thi Hang, Phan Lan village, Hop Thanh commune expressed her pride: "The Com Festival in Hop Thanh commune ended successfully, I feel very proud. Through this festival, I hope that all ethnic groups in the area will unite, work together, try to increase production, and create unique local products."

Mr. Nguyen Trong Doan - Vice Chairman of Hop Thanh Commune People's Committee, Head of Hop Thanh Green Rice Festival Organizing Committee delivered the closing speech.

According to the Organizing Committee, this year's Com Festival was carefully prepared, with villages actively decorating, practicing performances and participating in competitions. Security, health and environmental sanitation work was seriously implemented. Along with that, many innovations in the organization method have brought convenience to people and tourists to visit and enjoy the festival.

Mr. Nguyen Trong Doan - Vice Chairman of Hop Thanh Commune People's Committee said: "This year, with the support of the Department of Culture of Vietnamese Ethnic Groups and the Department of Culture - Sports and Tourism , Hop Thanh Commune organized the Com Festival with a series of rich and diverse activities, attracting many people, domestic and foreign tourists and international visitors. From there, it spread the beauty of the majestic wild nature, cool climate, especially the Com product with the flavor of the mountains and forests, along with attractive cultural colors, contributing to attracting investment, increasing income, improving the lives of local people".

The Organizing Committee awarded prizes to outstanding teams in the competition categories.

At the closing ceremony, the Organizing Committee awarded prizes to the outstanding teams in the following categories: Com pounding competition, Highlands cuisine competition, and booth display competition. At the same time, the traditional costume performance teams and the Tay Ethnic Arts Club of Tuong 1 and 3 villages, Hop Thanh commune were honored for their positive contributions to preserving and promoting the value of the Com Festival.

The festival ended with a solidarity dance.

Hop Thanh Green Rice Festival 2025 has left many good impressions in the hearts of locals and tourists.

Closing with a solidarity dance by the flickering campfire, the Hop Thanh Com Festival 2025 has left many good impressions in the hearts of locals and tourists. This will be an important premise for the locality to continue to preserve and promote traditional cultural values, and build a unique highland tourism brand.

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