Despite facing the global financial downturn in 2009, many exemplary craft villages showed their creativity and dynamically overcame every difficulty to preserve and develop the values of Vietnam’s traditional craft villages.

This is the third time these outstanding organisations and individuals have been honoured.

On the occasion, The HCM City-based Vietbooks Corporation and the Vietnam Record Book Centre announced a programme to search for craft groups and artisans and a meeting of highly skilled artisans who represent the best of Vietnam’s traditional crafts and express profound gratitude to ancestors that taught them the traditions.