The event saw the attendance of Permanent Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of the National Traffic Safety Committee Truong Hoa Binh, Head of the Communist Party of the Vietnam Central Committee's Commission for Mass Mobilization Truong Thi Mai, Minister of Transport and Vice Chairman of the National Traffic Safety Committee Nguyen Van The, Minister of Education and Training Phung Xuan Nha, Chairman of the People's Committee of Hanoi Nguyen Duc Chung, Japanese Ambassador to Vietnam Kunio Umeda, and representatives of ministries, agencies and Hanoi city.
Especially, the event attracted the participation of 3,000 first grade students, teachers, popular artists, and local Hanoians.
Addressing the ceremony, Mr. Binh required authorities and agencies to promote the effectiveness in disseminating and educating laws on traffic safety and order, while building a safe travel culture and environmentally-friendly public transit for people.
Meanwhile, relevant agencies at all levels should provide knowledge related to safe driving skills, contributing to reducing traffic accidents, he added.
The official also wants students nationwide to actively study and practice traffic safety so they thoroughly embrace and strictly obey legal regulations.
In the meantime, he officially kicked off a campaign themed “Wearing helmets for children” and called on their families to commit to participate in the program.
This walking event is targeted to achieve the goal by 2020, to have over 80 percent of children wearing helmets when using motorbikes and electric bicycles, contributing to establishing a new habit for people to wear helmets whenever riding motorbikes or electric bicycles and calling on the whole nation to wear helmets for children.
During the event , the National Traffic Safety Committee and the Ministry of Education and Training also signed a cooperation agreement to further educate students’ knowledge on traffic safety in schools in the period of 2019-2024.
After the ceremony, Mr. Binh, together with delegates and participants, took part in the walk to mobilize the nation to wear helmets for children.
Translated by Khanh Ngan