 Welcome to Vietnam Pavilion. Vietnam Pavilion is situated in the Opportunity District in Expo 2020 Dubai and in this district gathering the pavilions from many countries in the world which provides you from this side, you can see the overview of the pavilions and we have the three story. There's like a restaurant up there, right? Yes, yes. In the ground floor, we have the pavilions and the first floor we have the restaurant and in the third floor we make a very good decoration with 800 conical heads with different colors and very beautiful lights. It attracts the attention from the tourists in the evening and we also have many screen here to showcase about the image and the photos of Vietnam, the country, the people, the image of our country and above that this is the logo of the pavilions with a beautiful one. It depicts the lotus in Vietnam, lotus flower. It depicts the qualities of the people of Vietnam. Please go inside. This is the entrance to Vietnam pavilion and right from the beginning we'd like to introduce very good and interesting facts and figures about Vietnam such as Vietnam with advanced and modern economy. Vietnam service are very good and contribute so much to Vietnam economy and the role of women in the society of Vietnam is very big, very strong and also we receive a lot of tourism in the past years. The tourism industry speak very well and develop very quickly and the first Asian man travelling to the space is Vietnamese and also we are developing very hard in terms of internet usage. Yes and please go ahead. What's going on with the internet usage? Yes for the internet usage the number of users are very big and also the dissemination of the user in Vietnam is very strong. Also the number of social media users are very strong because the young people now are paying very much attention to the social media. They want to express themselves in the social media and we would like to promote also the young and the new Vietnam in the social media. What's the most popular social media? Is it like Facebook or other? Yes, we have all. Everything. We have all. But are there specific, some very popular in Vietnam? Yes, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, they are all popular in Vietnam because the young people now are looking at the way to express themselves to look at the way to showcase their opinions is very important. Let's go inside. Everybody has a fast internet for affordable price? Only in big city for sure but we are trying the best to widen the number of the people that can access to the very high speed internet. Maybe you need connection with the satellite. Yes, sure. Some of the villages get better fast internet, right? Yes, because in the mountainous area or in remote area it's not easy to get well to access to the internet but the government and we are trying the best to improve the situation through the project of the government, through the project of the private sector and through the international cooperation. We are trying to do that. Maybe with a Starlink. Starlink. Yes, maybe, maybe. And on the way to the inside the pavilion we also provide many, also the screen with a lot of information. In this screen we provide information about the development relations with 183 countries in the world and with the information and the photos of the activities of leaders of Vietnam and also the participation of Vietnam into the peacekeeping truth from United Nations organizations and also some image about ASEAN participation because in 2020 we are the chairman of ASEAN and also at that time we are the members of the United Nations Security Council to express that we are the active and responsible member in the international community. Just peace. Peacekeeping. There's only peace. This is the peacekeeping hospital. We send two hospitals to Africa to contribute our parts to the United Nations efforts to maintain the peace with the stability and helping the local community to get better health better treatment with the disease. And this is our effort to do that. Our effort to prove that Vietnam is an active member and responsible member in the international community. Let's go inside. And we have 10 screens providing you very good and interesting facts and figures about Vietnam. This is about Vietnam population. We have 97 million people and we rank number 15 in the world and third in the Southeast Asia. And our labor force is very strong. With over 60 of the population aged between 17 and 1959 it proved that our labor, our population is young, energetic and very dynamic. And everybody gets free education, free healthcare, everything. This is our aim, our aim to do that. We are trying to provide a wide range of services in terms of education to the people such as for the kindergarten, for the first year students the government will support a lot in terms of the fee. And we also provide the high class and luxuries training services with the support and cooperation from international partners. And as I mentioned, there's many more information about our smartphone users, internet and social network. And we rank number 42 out of 181. So it's half the country has a smartphone. Still the other half needs one, right? Yes. And it's coming very fast. Yes. Everybody is connected. Yes, yes. It's also very suitable with the team of Expo because they said that we should connect mice and connecting the future. This is going very well with the team of Expo 2020 Dubai. And we are also to say that we are developing quite well in terms of economic development. So despite of the COVID-19, we are improving our economy very well. Despite of the fact that COVID-19 hits the economy very hard the government have to do its very best to improve the situation and to kill the severe impacts of the COVID-19. And our economy is gradually improved. And we also have very good love, great love for football with the great achievement in terms of sports, in terms of Olympics, in terms of Asiat achievements. This is the first Olympic medals that we will in the history. In Olympic Rio. And this is some achievements of the, especially the achievements of the men football team. And also there's some achievements of sports, men as well as sports persons. Can you qualify for the World Cup? That's why we are dreaming up. We are going to the final qualifying round of Asia region. But we have to beat. We have to beat to qualify. Yeah, we... Soon. Soon the matches, right? This is also our dream to be in the next World Cup in 2026. We are also building our very strong under 20 men football team to prepare for this campaign. It's very big, it needs a very strong squad, very strong team, very good players and also very good tactics, many things to prepare for them. As far as I understand the football, it's important to have international tournaments that the local teams participate in. Like in Europe, there's this unfair advantage that there's always the European championships, right? The UEFA Champions League and everything. But there's also Champions League in Asia, where Vietnam is participating in all the countries. For the Asia region, we also have the AFC Champions League. It means that the Champions League of the Asia Football Club and also the Champions of the National Cup winner will compete with each other. And we also have the under 20, under 23 football tournament for the young players to compete so that they can gain the experience and then become competitive in the future. And also in each country, we also have the National League, National Football League and the Lower League so that the players can improve themselves. And also the players can move outside, move to foreign countries to compete in foreign countries. Do you have some wins? Do you win some of these Asian championships? Yes, I'll show you. This is the latest achievement in terms of the Southeast Asia. We ranked number fourth in Asian games and for the reason success is the AFC Suzuki Cup. It means that as the Champions League for the Southeast Asia region, we won for the second time in 2018. And in the AFC under 23 Champions League in Changzhou, China, we are the runner-up. It's a very big achievement. It's very exciting. Yeah, very exciting, yeah. Big football fan nation. Yes, we are also winning a lot of tourism awards in terms of the heritage destination, in terms of sustainable and cultural destination, in terms of culinary destination and also in terms of the best-going destination. And recently in 2021, we won also the world's best-going destination in 2021. And the Asia-leading destination in terms of sustainable tourism. And we are so very proud of our food, our culinary. We are honored as Asia-leading culinary destination with the food. And the food in Vietnam is a very good combination of the ingredients, of the fresh materials that bring health to the people and to help people to get better and better. This is also our very proud. I went to China many times and I always thought, China is probably the best food in the world, but then I went to Vietnam and then I said, okay, maybe it's the best food in the world. Yes. Is it the best food in the world? We think so. We think so. We provide healthy, right? Yes, many kinds of food. We can offer the very good street food to the food in the restaurant or the street food in the luxury and high-class hotel and resort. And we have a variety of products food to provide to the visitor and especially in the visit of President Obama in Vietnam. He went to a restaurant in the old quarter of Vietnam and he was very excited about the food. And then after that, this restaurant become very famous and then they even selling the Obama Poxon means that they use the food to promote for themselves and to promote it very successfully. And I'd like to show you a very important part in the pavilion. This is the theater, the state theaters of the pavilion. We include the water puppetry stage. Maybe we can get close to the instrument? Yes. Okay, yes. You say water? This is... I'd like to show you. This is the water puppetry theater. It is a very special cultural element of Vietnamese people because this is the product of the wet rice civilization. It means that this will be performed during the festival or in the special days in the community so that the artist will create the area looks like the communal house of the community and then they will serve, they will have to entertain the local farmer after the harvest time so that they can have fun, they can have relax, sing-times after the very heavy days in the paddy fields and for doing this, the artist stand behind the curtain here, stand behind the curtain. They use the stick to get close to the puppet here and then they stand behind the curtain to control the stick so that the puppet can move very smoothly to depict a story. This is a story about the love for the country, the love for the laborers, the love for the country, the love for people and it helps to entertain the local communities. And now at that moment, Puppet Tree becomes very famous in Vietnam and in the capital city of Vietnam, Hanoi, we have two very big Puppet Tree theater attract a lot of visitors and also the international tourists to come and see and here in the stage we also have traditional musical instrument for this one it's called Klung Pu it's very special and I think it's the most special one because you could not touch the musical instrument but you can create the sound you use your hand to create the sound by hitting here so that the sound will come from this to make it into a very good song and then this is the other one all of this one is made of bamboo bamboo and very environmentally friendly materials and this is the most special one we call it the Dan Bao or the Monocon because it has only one string one string here but it creates very good sound very good melodies and it depicts very well the soul, the minds of Vietnamese people and this is another special one we call it Tho Rung it's made of bamboo and the artist use two sticks to hit the bamboo to make the sound it is in the central highlands of Vietnam it's very attractive to the tourists and another special thing is that from this traditional musical instrument they can not only provide the traditional song but also the international song such as Despacito it's a very interesting thing and for the next corner I'd like to show you it's about the alzai exhibit alzai is a very special costume of Vietnamese women because the women will wear alzai in the special days of her life such as the wedding, the engagement or the festival or the ceremonies in her life and that's why alzai is very important for women and each woman often have about three or four sets of alzai in her wardrobe it's very important and they prefer alzai very much and now there are thousands of tailors in Vietnam they are doing the alzai and many designers trying to bring the new things new technique to make the alzai more special to the women and coming further to the pavilion I'd like to show you the exhibit the traditional costume of 54 ethnic groups of Vietnam and this is the bronze drum of Vietnam and also the dragon has a sculpture these are very special elements of the country of Vietnam it has a very strong position in the history of Vietnam and also the country of Vietnam when talking about those drum it means that you are talking about Vietnamese culture and for this exhibit it's a bit of costume of 54 ethnic group of Vietnam from the north to the south and they can see you can see that they are wearing very special costume depicting the culture and they wear this in everyday life in the working in playing the musical instrument in hanging out together or playing the musical instrument and also playing the musical instrument and doing the labour and going to the petty fields and weaving the costume for the members of the family and this is for everyday use in everyday life and this is the turtle as I mentioned and also very special the other one that I'd like to show this is for the traditional costume of Vietnam and there's another very special musical instrument this is the stone musical instrument because how important it is because it's dated back to thousands of years ago when people living in the cave the artist discovered that when you hit the stone it makes the sound and then this becomes the first kind of musical instrument that the mankind creates you can see it creates the sound, different sound and now the artist have to choose very carefully because not all the stone can make the very good sound for the music and this is the talent of the artist to do so to choose the stone for the music this is a very good way and there's another musical instrument that I'd like to show you this is the gong in the central highland of Vietnam this is very special because they are used by the ethnic people in the central highlands of Vietnam they often stay together in the communal house of the community in which they gather for the festival for the success of the bumper crop for the harvest and then they pray for good health pray for good luck pray for the safety pray for the sustainability this is very good cultural activities in the central highlands of Vietnam and the space of gong culture becomes the UNESCO heritage many times ago many years ago and after this we would like to introduce to move further to the area or the corner of innovation and technology and science in this corner we would like to show you the latest and the new achievement of Vietnam in terms of science of technology of development and also sustainability there are two projects that I would like to tell you this is the project of Ren's original this is the brand of Vietnam they want to develop they want to develop a sneaker or the sports house that use the recycled materials they use the plastic they use the plastic together with the coffee ground and to mix it together to make the shoes this is very lightweight this is very durable and this is waterproof and the dreaming become a brand strong enough to compete against Nike and Adidas and they want to turn this into the new way of producing the sneaker in terms of sustainability in terms of environmental friendly in terms of recycling this is a very strong message that they would like to promote to the world and to tell the world that Vietnamese young people are also very cautious in the recycling of sustainability and no this one? this is another one this is the ST-25 this is the Vietnamese rice that won the achievements won the awards of best rice in the world about couple of years ago and this is the author of the rice Mr. Ho Quang Khua and the rice here is very organic authentic and flavor by many countries in the world including our regional countries and also many countries in the world and we wish to introduce and promote this further to the international market and this is our... what goes into making the best rice in the world? they bring Mr. Ho Quang Khua bring the rice to an international competition and in that competition there's a group of the judges from international judges from the culture one from the science one they go together and then they judge many rice that brought to them and then after that they give this one as the best rice in the world so it's these that become like the water and stuff and the perfect amount of water the weather and everything matters because Vietnam is a wet rice a cultivation a wet rice civilization and we produce rice very much we are the second or third exporter of rice in the world it means that we have the strength in rice and we want to turn it into the power that can support the world especially in the time when we suffer from drought from the disease from the food in sustainability and that's why it's a very good way to promote our strength to prove that we are the responsible member of the international communities look at this poster right here and explain a little bit what you're looking what you're talking about here this is some kind of information some statistic about our and contributions of the yes of the digital digital transformation is a kind of new trend now for not only Vietnam but also other countries in the world in which we use the power of digital to develop our digital economy to develop the digital company and even the digital government what can people do with the government can they vote online? it means that for each government it means that they will create the administrative procedure administrative permission online so that they can the citizen can apply for the procedure for the administrative permission online so that they can do it very easily and it will not take time it will not take less effort for them and especially for the companies because the government want to use the digital to use the digital procedure to use the digital power to reduce the cost and also the effort the money of the company to make them easier to get to business and that's why this will also be applied to many other fields in Vietnam to have to develop the economy to promote the use of digital e-commerce and many other fields that apply the digital technologies it's a big growth yes Vietnam is open for all digital high-tech companies to come and Vietnam is a member of many big regional economic treaty such as the CPTPP or the RCEP this is a very important treaty that enhance the use of technology, the science in terms of development and this is also the policy of the government to look forward to that and develop it in this way so that we can use the power of science of technology to develop our country this ceremony is hosted by one deputy prime minister it is kind of like the key to improving society using technology in the smartest way so there is so much more potential to make everything better for everybody in the country this is our policy for the next corner I would like to introduce this is the corner of Francophonie the French-speaking community our French-speaking organization how many people speak French in Vietnam? French is one of the foreign languages in Vietnam but we are the active member of Francophonie and that's why we are one of the Asian countries in Expo that work with Francophonie to promote this group to promote this area to show that how we are involved how we participate and how we can be the members or how we can contribute we can develop the Francophonie in the international community does that also mean that Vietnam has a lot of trade going on with France? for example we have a very good cooperation they are strategic partners of Vietnam but it doesn't mean that we only have relations with France we are opening in the entrance I show you we have international cooperation with 183 countries in the world and many of them are our strategic partner, our comprehensive partner and we work very well with each other to promote trade, to promote mutual understanding to promote commerce and promote win-win development and this is very important and this is what we are doing to promote the future of technology in terms of education in terms of robot and this is what we are trying to do yes and for this product this is another project that use the environmental friendly material this is bamboo this is the whole frame of this bicycle it's made of bamboo, very environmental friendly and it helps to raise awareness of the young people and also the other members of the society we should go together you should live together well with the nature we should go with the nature to make it sustainable way to reduce the carbon emission and this is also a very strong message and this company brings this message very well so bamboo is strong enough for bicycles there's a lot of bicycles yes and this company has a branch office in Germany in Europe and this is the latest achievement that I would like to proudly tell you this is the story about the Nano Dragon satellite it was the first time that the satellite was built was produced by Vietnamese people produced in Vietnam in Vietnam made by Vietnamese people and it was recently successfully launched in the beginning of November 2021 in Japan and the satellite will launch into the space to get the pictures of our area that are affected by the drought by the disease so that they can have the government to find a better solution to control the flood to manage the agricultural natural resources tracking water level and many other fields Vietnam in the past has some satellite on the space already but this is the first time that the satellite was made in Vietnam and missed by Vietnamese people this is a very strong and encouraging achievement from our government from Vietnamese people Vietnam is doing more and more high tech manufacturing design everything as you all know digital and high tech is very important because it helps to improve the production improve the service very successfully and to improve the values of the economy and that's why this is also the trend of the world that is going on this way and that's why we are promoting going on the high tech way going on the sustainable way going on the digital way to develop our country and to work with other countries in this way too what do you mean by it says touch and feel this is the touch screen touch screen and here's some VR VR reality glasses that we put in here the photos and the videos amount tourist destination of Vietnam so that the visitor can try themselves for this destination to get virtual reality this is the real bridge and very famous in Danang city in the tourist area thousands of thousands of people going there to enjoy the sunset and then it become the symbol new symbol of Danang city a very hot destination and it was recognized by not only Vietnamese people but also for international media they also like it very much and they said that this become the new symbol of the Jews this is kind of like the exit area so what is the design here this is the corner that reminds you about Hoi An the ancient town of Hoi An and it's a world heritage with very beautiful lantern and the beautiful decorations in the street with the very good values of countries, you can come here to discover this is the heritage and with a very peaceful life in the town and with these maybe handmade that people get over there Vietnam very popular tourist destination how many tourists you get millions and millions in 2019 we receive 18 million international visitors and we expect a stronger number in 2020 but due to COVID-19 the number of international tourists decrease very quickly but in this year in November the government decided to reopen international tourism again first of all in some areas such as the Phu Quoc islands and Hoi An and the government for this area first and then everything will develop well we will further enlarge the destination widen this destination so that we can receive more and more tourists so we can come to the point that we can open 100% for the international visitor and about couple of days ago there are charter flights with group numbers of 200 visitors going to Phu Quoc for the visit for the tours in Phu Quoc and also we also get another group to Hoi An for the visitation here in Hoi An and this is very strong encouragement very strong achievement that we can rely on and you can learn the experience from this project and if everything is good we will further open more destination so that international tourists can come and enjoy hopefully fully open soon once I flew to Ho Chi Minh City and it was a very affordable flight to get there and then from Ho Chi Minh to Phu Quoc I think it was Viet Jet and it was so affordable it was like $20 flight from Ho Chi Minh to Phu Quoc very affordable low cost airlines I know it to Phu Quoc we have fly from Ho Chi Minh to Phu Quoc and we also from the other local destination to Phu Quoc it means that Phu Quoc is very open and very it's a great beach and a little scooter you go around, you're free and very good tourism product and services that offer to the tourists you can have entertainment here you can have the shopping paradise here you can enjoy the beach here you can enjoy the sports and games here many things for you to discover you can go fishing go with the locals discover the mountains discover the national park many activities for you to see, to discover not only in Phu Quoc but also other destination we can have variety of products and services and in normal year not this strange pandemic going on but in normal year every passport is welcome in Phu Quoc the government apply a very special policy that allow all the people from all national to go there without visa in 30 days, every country the whole world, yes doesn't matter where you're from, as long as you can find a flight you can welcome to Phu Quoc and the rest of Vietnam is also quite open but not as much this is a special policy for Phu Quoc and for the other countries we have for other destination for example we have the policy to apply the visa free scheme for some European countries for ASEAN and some Asia Pacific countries which the market are big for Vietnam such as the Japan Korea or yes some example I would like to show you and for some European countries Germany France or Spain and we are also on the process of planning for opening up for more visa free program for more tourists yes this is how we are looking for and how we develop the tourism because the government believe and the government apply the policy to develop the tourism into the spearhead economy sector we consider tourism as a very important one that can contribute very great to the economic development of the country and also to provide the job provide the well-being for the local communities the local community can be benefited from this process and they can develop the local communities and there are many good benefits from tourism development and there is also many Vietnamese people living all around the world and they all stay connected with their country right somehow the number of Vietnamese people living abroad is a very big one and our government believe that and always provide the policy and always consider this Vietnamese community as a member of Vietnamese family so that we always support, we always carry out the program to assist the Vietnamese community living abroad to get well and to get well to enjoy the cultural life cultural activities of Vietnam every year the ministry of cultural sport and tourism in Vietnam organize a lot of cultural activities such as the Vietnam cultural days of Vietnam cultural tourism days or week in foreign country we invited the Vietnamese community living abroad to come here to enjoy the songs, enjoy the music now Vietnam to enjoy the traditions of Vietnam and we also have two two cultural center of Vietnam in foreign countries one in Laos and one in France in which they organize a lot of for example Vietnamese language teaching class of the Lunar New Year festival to support the people in the people living abroad Vietnamese people living abroad to enjoy their home and also the embassies of Vietnam in foreign countries also organize many cultural activities many supporting activities to assist the Vietnamese people living abroad in many cases in many in many fields so that they can be they can be grow grow stronger and especially in Czech Republic the Vietnamese community become the 13th ethnic group of this country this reflect that the Vietnamese community contribute living in Czech Republic contribute very much to the development of the country and consider as a ethnic group of the country of the Czech Republic sometimes I see stuff about I don't know if it's hard drives or certain electronic components made in Vietnam all over the world and also closing is it stuff like sneakers shoes and stuff like that but what I wonder is do the minimum salary keep growing for everybody in Vietnam of course the government pay very much attention to the well-being of our people we have the ministry of social affairs and work and valise to take care of the laborers to take care of the people affected by the work in the past and also to provide social policy for them to assist them and the government also provide many many many policy to assist in terms of salaries in terms of assistant to the laborers and also for the workers and especially in the COVID-19 time the government provide many sources provide a lot of funds to assist the worker with no job or the worker affected by the COVID-19 pandemic their own assistant and also the local government and the charity association also provide a lot of support for the laborers and for the people that cannot come back home because of COVID-19 there are many very good examples in that case and I would like to show just one example there is one engineer that one young man with the initiative of atm rice it means that in the very very poor area some people even cannot afford to buy the rice it means at that time this young man come up with the idea of atm rice it means that instead of money it will come out with rice kind of very good support for the poor people who cannot afford that and with that initiative the young man got a lot of support from the communities many bring the rice here to support the atm rice and many open destination for atm rice so that people with difficulties in terms of affording the rice will get this support so that they can go very well with the COVID-19 pandemic they can easily pass this difficult time of the years and then after that they can have the opportunity to come back to job to find out more opportunity to earn the money very good solution very good initiative together with others to support the people to support the community to support the laborers because it's important to work as hard as possible to lift the poor people out of poverty and have economic equality this is happening in that direction as I told you this is the policy of the government to improve the living standard this is the general policy and after this general policy we come up with the concrete and specific policy for example to assist the people with disabled disabled people we open the companies that work to assist to provide the work the job for the disabled people and we can provide we organize we establish the association that directly support the disabled people and we also we also come up with initiative with a project with the support of international organization to support the disabled people and also the we also support the old people the old people in terms of medical treatment in terms of taking care the health of the old people and also the children the children we have the international children's day and with a lot of policy a lot of good care for the children good care in terms of education good care in terms of medical health and yes the other policy for the other the other communities in the society and we are going very well with the policy of international organizations in terms of leaving no one left behind no one will be left behind it means that we take care of all people especially the people with disabled or the disability or the people that are poor or the people that cannot afford to to the yes this is the way how we are doing how the policies are going