Exhibition reviews country's achievements in the past 80 years
With large indoor and outdoor exhibitions, the exhibition looks back at the 80-year journey of building and developing the country of provinces and industries.
THE HANOI TIMES — On the area of 900,000 square meters, the exhibition “80 Years of Independence-Freedom-Happiness Journey” will review the country's outstanding achievements since its 1945 foundation.
The exhibition taking place from August 28 to September 5 at the Vietnam Exposition Center (VEC) at Dong Anh Commune, Hanoi, is the first one of its kind.
Building A will be the exhibition space for 12 cultural industries. There is also a stage area for performing arts, interactiions with artists and a virtual gallery.
A cinema room will screen symbolic Vietnamese films, while visitors will have the chance to meet and exchange ideas with actors at a talkshow.
Outside the exhibition hall, a “happiness global” (12m by 18m in size) will project images of a beautiful Vietnam. Audiences can send their messages by writing on the surface of the ball.
The center of VEC is the Kim Quy (Golden Turtle) Exhibition Hall, which includes the central hall and eight others.
This is an impressive highlight, contributing to widely promoting the achievements of industries and localities over the past 80 years.
Right from the main lobby area, visitors will encounter the "Independence - Freedom - Happiness" road, shown by mapping technology - one of the most modern projection technologies today, commonly used at international exhibitions.
Going deeper inside, the exhibition has galleries about the Party's history and achievements under the Party's consistent leadership in the journey to gain independence and develop the country.
Ministries, industries and 34 localities will also display their contents in this spirit, creating a harmonious and consistent whole.
During the exhibition, many art programs will be held, bringing together many well-known singers. Their performances promise to draw large audiences at the Exhibition House area on the occasion of National Day (September 2).
The Vietnam Exposition Center is located on Truong Sa Avenue in Hanoi's Dong Anh Commune. It is designed to become a destination for national and international political - economic - cultural - tourism events.
The center also acts as a driving force to promote the development of the modern exhibition economy in Vietnam and is the most modern exhibition, economic and cultural complex in the region.
Vietnam Exposition Center - marking the new era
According to Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Nguyen Van Hung, VEC is one among many extremely important projects of the country, and a regional and world-class center.
VEC has a scale of over 900,000 sq.m, the indoor exhibition area is up to 304,000sq.m, is the most modern exhibition, economic and cultural complex in the region, ranking in the top 10 largest exhibition centers in the world and the largest in Southeast Asia today.
In particular, the two focal items of the Vietnam Exposition Center include Kim Quy Exhibition Hall and the Outdoor Exhibition Area, where the exhibition of socio-economic achievements to celebrate the 80th anniversary of National Day will take place.
Kim Quy Exhibition Hall, inspired by the legend of the Golden Turtle god of the sacred land of Co Loa (now Dong Anh Commune).
Co Loa Citadel was built near Phong Khe, about 20 km to the north of today’s Hanoi, during the end of the Hong Bang Dynasty (about 257 BC).
Legend has it that after several failures in building the Co Loa citadel, a golden turtle came to help King An Duong Vuong to build the citadel.
The job was completed, the golden turtle gave the king a claw to make a magical crossbow capable of shooting thousands of arrows at a time to protect the country from invaders.
The Kim Quy Exhibition Hall is also the world's largest circular exhibition hall with a total area of 105,000 square meters and a height of over 56 meters.
The turtle-shaped exhibition hall has a majestic and sturdy structure, with a floor load capacity of up to five tons/ssquare meters, which can well meet the display of large equipment and machinery.
In particular, the dome is designed massively with 24,000 tons of steel, with a safety coefficient twice as high as usual, using lightweight, super-durable fiberglass fabric material, with light transmission, meeting the green architecture standards, saving energy of global-scale projects.
In terms of functionality, the Kim Quy Exhibition Hall is planned into nine halls. The halls are intelligently designed, can be opened to create the second largest interconnected exhibition space in the world or separated into independent zones, allowing organizers to be flexible and optimize the exhibition space.
Each hall is integrated with ancillary services such as coffee shops, restaurants, and functional rooms, meeting all the needs of exhibitors and visitors.
The outdoor exhibition area, with a total area of over 200,000 square meters - top 3 in the world in terms of outdoor exhibition scale, is suitable for events, exhibitions, large-scale cultural and tourism festivals as well as organizing many activities at the same time.
In particular, the north yard is designed for large music festivals with a capacity of up to 50,000 spectators, with ideal infrastructure conditions to organize world-class concerts.
VEC is the venue for many concerts gathering 30,000-50,000 spectators. Photo courtesy of VEC
