In his closing speech, Lu Ngoc Cu, Chairman of the Dak Lak provincial People’s Committee, declared the success of the four-day festival, saying that “the event has helped honour and promote the distinctive cultural values of the gong in relation to the long history of ethnic minority groups living along the Truong Son Mountain Range and in the Central Highlands”. He also said the festival has helped promote cultural exchanges and strengthen solidarity between ethnic groups and between Vietnam and other countries.

The same day, a number of activities were held in Don hamlet to restore the traditional rituals of ethnic minority groups in the Central Highlands. Among them were the water and new rice rituals of the M’Nong ethnic group. Mahouts exhibited elephant hunting and taming skills, while elephant races received a thunderous applause from the spectators.