Program featuring military-civilian ties held in Vang Ma Chai

The program included various activities, such as artistic exchange; Chung cake making and rice pounding competitions; volleyball and folk games; zero-VND booths; and free health check-ups and medicines for ethnic people conducted by troops from the Lai Chau provincial Military and Border Guard Commands.

Delegates touring the displaying area of the Lai Chau province’s armed forces

Speaking at the event, Senior Colonel Dang Vinh Thuy, Commanding Officer of the Lai Chau provincial Military Command, affirmed that over the past years, the command has coordinated with other forces to carry out gratitude activities to support needy people in remote and border areas.

At the zero-VND booths

Attentively, the “Border Spring of Unity - Tet of Military-Civilian Sentiment” program has become an annual event to support people in need during the lunar New Year. The event contributed to tightening the close ties and solidarity between Uncle Ho’s soldiers and ethnic minority people, thereby firmly protecting national border sovereignty.

Presenting gifts to poor households

The province’s leaders and delegates joining Chung cake making competition with local people

On the occasion, the Lai Chau provincial Military Command presented gifts, including televisions, blankets, mosquito nets, and warm clothing, to authority of Vang Ma Chai commune, police and border guard forces, schools, policy beneficiaries, needy people, families with children completing military service and enlisted to the military in 2025, and disadvantaged students with excellent academic results, among others.

Translated by Quynh Oanh