An agreement to this effect was signed in Hanoi on May 6 between Nguyen Van Khoi, Vice Chairman of the Hanoi City People’s Committee, and Jacques Fournier, Director of the Lyon lighting department.

26 structures and locations in Hanoi will be decoratively brighter thanks to equipment to be purchased by the French aid. Among these are the Government’s Guest House, the statue of King Ly Thai To, the octagonal building in Ly Thai To garden, and a fountain in Dien Hong garden.

As the project is estimated to cost €480,000 in total, the rest of €140,000 will be covered by Hanoi, which is responsible for the installation of a power network to support the lighting work.

Khoi highlighted the French aid as a significant gift to Hanoi in preparation for its 1,000^th birth anniversary.

The French official expressed his city’s honour to contribute its part to the capital city’s millennial birthday celebration, describing it as a practical deed to foster the traditional friendship between Vietnam and France as well as between Lyon and Hanoi.