Competitions celebrating the cultural heritage of local ethnic groups and traditional Tet feasts took centre stage on February 8 as part of the Quynh Nhai district Culture, Sports, and Tourism Week 2025.

Quynh Nhai district on February 7 kicked off the Culture, Sports, and Tourism Week 2025 with incense offering ceremonies at the Linh Son - Thuy Tu and Nang Han Temples, located within its spiritual and cultural tourism area.

Hoang Quoc Khanh, Secretary of the provincial Party Committee, on February 3 chaired a meeting to review the local situation before, during, and after the 2025 Lunar New Year (Tet) celebration.

The provincial Party Committee, People's Council, People's Committee, and Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee held a ceremony in Son La city on February 3, or the sixth day of the first lunar month to launch the tree planting campaign in the spring of the Year of the Snake 2025.

Secretary of the provincial Party Committee Hoang Quoc Khanh, Permanent Deputy Secretary of the committee Lo Minh Hung, and members of its Standing Board on February 3 held a Lunar New Year meeting with officials and public servants of the committee’s advisory and support agencies.

Son La city organised a spring festival to celebrate the 95th founding anniversary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (February 3, 1930 – 2025) and welcome the Year of the Snake 2025 at Tay Bac (Northwest) Square in Son La city on the morning of February 1 (the 4th day of the Lunar New Year).

Son La province has defined the removal of temporary and dilapidated houses as a political task of the entire Party Organisation, authorities, armed forces, and people of all ethnic groups in the province in 2025, said the provincial chairman.

Dinh Thi Bich Thao, member of the Standing Board of the provincial Party Committee and head of the provincial Party Committee’s Information and Education Board, visited and extended Lunar New Year (Tet) greetings to the staff, reporters, and editors of Son La Newspaper and Son La Radio and Television Station.

Nguyen Dinh Viet, Deputy Secretary of the provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee, along with a working delegation, visited and extended Tet greetings to the families of former provincial leaders in Son La city on January 23.

A delegation of provincial leaders and officials on January 23 offered incense and flowers at the temples dedicated to King Le Thai Tong and President Ho Chi Minh, and paid respect to martyrs of Son La Prion at a memorial house.

Secretary of the provincial Party Committee Hoang Quoc Khanh on January 20 led a working delegation of the province to visit and present gifts to several policy beneficiary families and people who rendered service to the nation in Son La city.

Quang Van Huong, Vice Chairman of the National Assembly (NA)'s Council for Ethnic Affairs and deputy to the 15th legislature, and a working delegation visited Chieng Noi, Phieng Cam and Muong Chanh communes, Mai Son district on January 22, on the threshold of the Lunar New Year (Tet) 2025.

Cha A Cua, member of the provincial Party Committee’s Standing Board and Vice Chairman of the provincial People's Council, on January 22 presented a 65-year Party membership badge to Party member Dinh Van Duon in Sap Viet hamlet, Ta Khoa commune, Bac Yen district.

The provincial Journalists Association and the provincial Literature and Arts Association on January 20 presented the copies of spring issues of several newspapers, and literary and artistic publications, which had been displayed the Spring Newspaper Festival 2025, to the provincial Border Guard Command.

Lo Viet Phuong, deputy head of the National Assembly Standing Committee’s Ombudsman Commission, and other provincial officials attended the “Tet xum vay – Xuan on Dang” (Gathering on Tet, expressing gratitute towards the Party) programme on the occasion of the Lunar New Year (Tet) in Quynh Nhai district on January 19.

Secretary of the provincial Party Committee Hoang Quoc Khanh and a working delegation on January 19 visited and gave Tet gifts to poor households in Yen Chau district.

A book and newspaper exhibition and a spring press festival themed around the Party opened at Vincom Plaza Son La, Son La city on January 19.

Van Ho district is organising the "Hamlet Tet Market" 2025 on January 17-19.

The provincial centre for supporting the development of inclusive education, in collaboration with the Son La city Police, the Son La Electricity Company, and the Son La Urban Environment and Services JSC, on January 18 inaugurated and handed over a project supporting children with disabilities, and give gifts to them on the occasion of the Lunar New Year (Tet) 2025.

Deputy Secretary of the provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the provincial People's Committee Nguyen Dinh Viet on January 17 visited and presented gifts to Long Sap and Chieng Khua communes, as well as military units stationed there on the occasion of the Lunar New Year (Tet) festival.