The event is designed to improve people’s understanding of Vietnam’s sovereignty over the two archipelagos and on awareness of defending the national sea and islands. 

The exhibits, including many documents issued by the Vietnamese feudal regimes and from the French administration in Indochina in the 17th to early 20th century, affirm Vietnam exercising its sovereignty over the Hoang Sa and Truong Sa archipelagos.  

It also features copies of documents issued by the Socialist Republic of Vietnam from 1975, claiming and exercising Vietnam’s sovereignty over Truong Sa and Hoang Sa and other islands within the country's territory. 

Additionally, four sets of maps and 30 maps published by the Chinese dynasties and governments via different historic periods showed that China has never managed the two islands.