Deputy chairman of the HCM City People’s Committee, Hua Ngoc Thuan, called on poor ethnic Chinese families in the city on January 28 to greet them for Tet (the lunar New Year) and give them gifts.
Among those he gave gifts were the families of Lu Le Phan, Vuong My, and Ho Van Hong of District 8.
He wished them a happy New Year and hoped they would overcome difficulties to improve their lives.
Mr. Thuan also visited and gave gifts to poor families in Nha Be District.
On the same day, the HCMC Fatherland Front Committee together with its District 3 unit, the Department of Education and Training’s labor union, and Phu My Hung Joint Venture Company have away Tet gifts worth VND200,000 each to 400 poor people in Binh Chanh District’s Binh Loi Ward and Nha Be District’s Phuoc Loc Ward.