May 19, 2022, the 132nd birth
anniversary of President Ho Chi Minh, was marked with a special event of VNU –
the relocation of its headquarters to Hoa Lac campus. The relocation of VNU's
headquarters to Hoa Lac is an important step towards welcoming students to
study here in September 2022. On this occasion, all staff,
officials and employees of VNU’s Administration attended the flag-salute
ceremony and respectfully offered incense, expressing their infinite gratitude
and deep respect to President Ho Chi Minh – the beloved old father of the
nation.  Inheriting
President Ho Chi Minh’s revolutionary spirit, VNU will continue to cultivate
new scientific and training ideas in the green land of Hoa Lac, contributing to
the socio-economic development of the country.In order to achieve this important milestone, over the past 6 months,
VNU has mobilized all its resources to Hoa Lac to make rapid and
beyond-expectation changes. At the end of 2021, VNU
established a Steering Committee and a Working Group to implement the task of sending
VNU students to study at Hoa Lac campus. In the first and second quarters of
2022, VNU completed and put into use lecture halls, classrooms, laboratories,
etc. in complexes HT1, HT2 and Zone 4 Dormitory, Library and VNU administration
compound. VNU's Board of Presidents has moved to work regularly at Hoa Lac
headquarters since March 2022. Along with investing in building essential
utility structures to serve students' learning and working activities in the
near future, VNU and its partners have actively planted more trees here in
order to green 165 hectares.  Standing
by the national flag in a space filled with Hoa Lac’s green of hope, VNU
President Le Quan warmly welcomed all officials to the Flag Raising Ceremony
and Incense Offering Ceremony on the occasion of the 132nd birth anniversary of
President Ho Chi Minh – the first flag-salute ceremony of VNU in Hoa Lac
University town.VNU
President said that, in the spirit of determination, focus, positivity and
urgency of all VNU’s units, the VNU administration compound and the surrounding
campus space have been completed as contributions to the projects for welcoming
students to live and study in Hoa Lac this September. VNU’s
Hoa Lac campus is expected to become a most modern and advanced university
urban area in Southeast Asia, "… with special significance not only for
VNU but also for the image of the whole country" - said by PM (now State President)
Nguyen Xuan Phuc during his visit to VNU in 2016. |