[In Pictures] Party General Secretary and Prime Minister visit National Exposition Centre

On the morning of August 19, after performing the ribbon-cutting ceremony and groundbreaking and inauguration ceremony for key projects and works to celebrate the 80th anniversary of National Day at the Dong Anh bridge, Ha Noi, General Secretary To Lam and Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh visited the National Exposition Centre.

Tuesday, August 19, 2025 15:39

Party General Secretary To Lam, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and delegates perform the ribbon-cutting ceremony and groundbreaking and inauguration ceremony for key projects and works at the National Exposition Centre in Dong Anh, Ha Noi.

After performing the ribbon-cutting ceremony and groundbreaking and inauguration ceremony for key projects and works, General Secretary To Lam, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and delegates visit the National Exposition Centre.

The National Exposition Centre is one of 250 key projects and works that were simultaneously inaugurated and started construction on August 19 to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the August Revolution (August 19) and National Day (September 2).

The project, invested by Vingroup, started construction on August 30, 2024, and handed over the site on June 27, 2025 - after only nearly 10 months of construction, 15 months ahead of schedule.

The National Exposition Centre has a scale of more than 304,000m2 of indoor exhibition area and 200,000m2 of outdoor exhibition area, positioned to become the largest exhibition centre complex in Southeast Asia. The highlight of the project is the massive steel dome of the Kim Quy exhibition hall with a height of more than 56m, a diameter of 360m and a mass of up to 24,000 tons. This is the world’s largest steel dome, all steel is produced in Viet Nam, designed with inspiration from the Kim Quy turtle shell - a symbol associated with the legend of Co Loa.

With a huge space, a maximum capacity of up to hundreds of thousands of people outdoors and thousands of people indoors, the National Exposition Centre not only ensures capacity for large-scale exhibitions but is also ready for large-scale events such as music festivals, national festivals, large-scale technology demonstrations, etc., meeting the most stringent standards from international organisers.

From August 28 to September 5, the National Exposition Centre will be the venue for the National Achievement Exhibition with the theme “80 years of the Journey of Independence - Freedom – Happiness”. This is also an opportunity to introduce to international friends the 80-year achievements of Viet Nam, contributing to promoting the image of a renewed, dynamic, and deeply internationally integrated Viet Nam to friends in the region and the world.

Photos: Thanh Dat - Van Toan

Translated by NDO

National Exposition Centre

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