Opening of the 15th Nghe An Province Phu Dong Sports Festival

(Baonghean.vn) - This morning, March 4, at the Provincial Labor Culture House, the Provincial People's Committee and the Department of Education and Training solemnly held the opening ceremony of the 15th Provincial Phu Dong Sports Festival.

Attending the event were comrades: Ngu Duy Anh - Director of the Department of Student Affairs, Ministry of Education and Training, Deputy Standing Committee of the 8th National Sports Festival Steering Committee; Nguyen Xuan Duong, - Member of the Provincial Party Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, Head of the Organizing Committee of the 15th Provincial Phu Dong Sports Festival; Dinh Viet Hong - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; leaders of a number of provincial departments, branches, and sectors, educational units in the province; delegations of athletes, referees, teachers and students of Vinh city.

Delegates attending the opening ceremony




Comrade Nguyen Xuan Duong presented flowers and souvenir flags to the teams participating in the 15th Provincial Sports Festival.



Overview of the opening ceremony



Traditional torch lighting



Mass performance by students of Le Loi Secondary School (Vinh City)

HKPĐ is a traditional physical education, sports and cultural activity for high school students in particular and school youth in general, contributing to improving the physical education of students in schools, in order to meet the requirements of comprehensive education, and at the same time, it is also an opportunity to discover and foster sports talents for the locality and the country. This provincial HKPĐ has the participation of 20 delegations with nearly 1,400 athletes from 20 districts and cities in the province.

Athletes will compete in 8 sports, including: Athletics, table tennis, badminton, shuttlecock, chess, football, volleyball, crossbow shooting. The competitions will take place at 4 locations: Huynh Thuc Khang High School (Squash, table tennis), Phan Boi Chau High School (Badminton, chess), Provincial Boarding Ethnic High School (Volleyball, crossbow shooting); Song Lam Stadium and Training Ground (Athletics, football).

The results of the 16th Provincial HKPĐ will be lessons learned for the province to build its forces and establish a team to prepare for the competitions in the National HKPĐ Region III taking place in Nghe An next April.

At the opening ceremony, the sacred flame - a symbol of the spirit of honest and noble sportsmanship taken from the Soviet Nghe Tinh Museum was lit on the pyre by Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Xuan Duong. At the end of the opening ceremony, the audience watched a spectacular and impressive gymnastic performance by students from Hung Binh Primary School, Le Loi Secondary School and Le Viet Thuat High School.

On behalf of the athletes and referee team participating in the HKPĐ, we pledge to compete and work honestly and wholeheartedly to contribute to the success of the 15th Provincial HKPĐ.

The health festival takes place from March 4 to March 8, 2012.

Thanh Phuc