Construction begins on the national flag pole on Tho Chu Island.
On the morning of May 17th, at the top of Tay Hill, Tho Chau commune, Tho Chu island, Phu Quoc district, Kien Giang province, the Central Committee of the Vietnam Student Association held a groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of a national flag pole with a total value of over 1 billion VND.
The flagpole on Tho Chu Island is 25m high, with a flag covering an area of 28m², and is located nearly 175m above sea level. This is the second national flagpole project initiated and built by the Vietnam Student Association, following the national flagpole on Thoi Loi Mountain, Ly Son Island District (Quang Ngai).
Mr. Nguyen Minh Triet, Director of the Vietnam Student Development Center, said: "Currently, the issue of maritime sovereignty is very pressing, and building a national flag pole is a meaningful and necessary undertaking that the Vietnam Student Union needs to carry out. It is proof that the generation of Vietnamese students not only know how to study, research, and create, but also always have hearts devoted to the sovereignty of the country."
On the same day, the delegation participating in the "Students with the Sea and Islands of the Fatherland" program visited and presented gifts to the people on Tho Chu Island, awarded 50 scholarships to students (500,000 VND/scholarship), provided medical examinations and medicine to the elderly; and donated life jackets and national flags to fishermen on the island.
Tho Chu Island is a strategically important island in the southwest of Vietnam, bordering international waters with countries in the region such as Thailand, Cambodia, and Malaysia. Tho Chu Island has over 600 households with more than 1,700 inhabitants, who mainly live by fishing and trading on the island.
On the same day, on a beach on Phu Quoc Island, 600 outstanding students representing universities and colleges nationwide formed the words "Proud of Vietnam's islands and seas" in a human shape.
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