More than 400 local students attended the 4th Kanagawa festival in the central coastal city of Da Nang on November 13, jointly organised by the municipal People’s Committee and Japan’s Kanagawa prefecture.

For the first time, the draft documents for the 14th National Party Congress propose recognising “external relations and international integration” as a core, regular task, on par with national defence and security, reflecting a new strategic mindset in safeguarding and advancing national interests.