Under the agreement, signed by the city’s Mayor Nguyen The Thao and VTV General Director Vu Van Hien on February 25, VTV will broadcast a series of special programmes on the history of Thang Long-Hanoi and activities to celebrate the anniversary. In addition to normal broadcast in Vietnamese, there will be programmes in several ethnic minority and foreign languages.

The national television will also build up a documentary collection on the theme.

Thang Long-Hanoi came into being in the autumn of 1010 with King Ly Thai To’s edict on the transfer of the capital. Being one of the most ancient capitals in Southeast Asia, this imperial land boasts a continual historic millennium through the Ly, Tran and Le, etc., dynasties to modern Vietnam.