This is how UAE's 47th National Day will be celebrated

Dubai - Sheikh Mohammed called on citizens and residents to "celebrate achievements" rather than "personalities".

The UAE's celebrations of its National Day on December 2 this year will be a little different. His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, has called on citizens and residents to "celebrate achievements" rather than "personalities".
He took to Twitter to call on residents to nominate projects that would have made the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan happy. "We shall honour the teams behind the most important projects on the UAE National Day.
"We have projects like the Louvre Abu Dhabi Museum, Burj Khalifa, Dubai Metro and Cleveland Clinic ... Projects like the Prince of Poets and Million's Poet (reality TV poetry contests), and the Arab Reading Challenge ... Projects such as the Khalifa University, American University in Sharjah, Union Museum and Mars probe.
"We shall celebrate projects that will leave their footprints in the history of the UAE. Projects that were made by our country ... Sheikh Zayed would have been happy about these projects had he been with us. Cultural, social, economic, scientific and infrastructure projects will leave their footprints in our country's history and march," the UAE Vice-President tweeted.
Residents can nominate the projects with the hashtag #UAE_Pioneers or on www.uaepioneers.gov.ae till November 18.
Sheikh Mohammed had launched the UAE Pioneers programme in November 2014, when he asked residents to nominate Emiratis who they believed were pioneers in their fields. In under two weeks, the social media campaign clocked 137,000 entries. On December 1, 2014, as part of the 43^rd UAE National Day celebrations, Sheikh Mohammed honoured 43 Emiratis with the UAE Pioneers Award.
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• Dubai