(VOVworld) – Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh has urged Hanoi authorities to promote Hanoi’s role as Vietnam’s centre of politics, economy, culture, education, science, and technology to successfully achieve national goals.

Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh and delegates at the Great National Unity Festival in Tran Hung Dao ward, Hoan Kiem district, Hanoi (Photo: VNA)

At a gathering to celebrate the Great National Unity Festival in Hanoi and mark the 86^th anniversary of the Vietnam Fatherland Front, Mr. Binh praised the local achievements of 2016 in the campaign to build new rural and urban areas. He asked local people to strengthen the great national unity bloc and build consensus in local socio-economic development.