The Vietnam Craft Village Association on January 23 made presentations to six outstanding craft villages, nine businesses, 29 crafts people and six products that represent the nation’s culture.

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

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

On this occasion, The HCM City-based Vietbooks Corporation and the Vietnam Record Book Centre announced a program me to search for craft groups and artists 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.

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