Participants at the workshop were provided with an overview of the Vietnam-Laos border as well as the significance, objectives, and activities related to the planting and upgrading of national border markers within the province’s area.

Dien Bien shares a 360-km border with Phongsaly and Luang Prabang provinces in Laos. Since 2008, the three provinces have been carrying out a project to upgrade 21 existing border markers and establish an additional 135.

To complete the project by 2014, the provincial Party Committee asked ideological, cultural and press agencies to step up the dissemination of information about the project in order to receive more support and active participation from local authorities, officials, Party members and ethnic people.