State President Võ Văn Thưởng joins the the “Tết sum vầy – Xuân tri ân" programme in HCM City on Friday. VNA/VNS Photo Thống Nhất

HCM CITY – State President Võ Văn Thưởng extended warm Tết (Lunar New Year) greetings to disadvantaged people and workers with difficulties while attending the “Tết sum vầy – Xuân tri ân” (Tet reunion – Spring gratitude) programme in HCM CIty's Thủ Đức City on February 2.

The State leader said HCM City, an economic, cultural, educational and sci-tech hub of the country, has initiated an array of social welfare programmes to take care of disadvantaged people in the city and those residing in the nearby as well as remote and mountainous localities.

Despite formidable challenges, the city has made concerted efforts to retain economic growth, helping ensure social welfare for impoverished people and those with difficult circumstances, he stressed.

He described the “Tết sum vầy – Xuân tri ân” annually held by trade unions at all levels as a practical programme to bring a warm Tết festival for all, asking the Vietnam Fatherland Front, the Vietnam General Confederation of Labour and competent agencies continue to expand the programme in order to assure that Tết is always full of joy for everyone, especially poor workers and students, and people in difficulties.

On the occasion, President Thưởng presented hundreds of gifts to workers, families of policy beneficiaries and poor people in the city. VNS