HCM City marks Liberation Day
(VOV) - A meeting was held in HCM City on April 29 to celebrate the 38th annivesary of Southern Liberation and Unification Day and the 127th anniversay of May Day.
Thirty-eight years ago on April 30, Vietnamese soldiers marched into Saigon (now HCM City), liberating the city from the US-backed puppet regime and marking an end of the Ho Chi Minh campaign.
In his keynote speech at the ceremony, HCM City Mayor Le Hoang Quan recalled the glorious history of the Vietnamese nation in the protracted war of resistance against US imperialists and the historic Ho Chi Minh campaign, culminating in the total victory in 1975.
“It is the victory of the national, social and human liberation of the Vietnamese nation under the leadership of the Communist Party of Vietnam and President Ho Chi Minh.
“It is also the victory of human conscience and human dignity over tyrannical power and unjust violence.”
He said soldiers and people of Saigon waged a heroic battle on the three fronts of politics, military and communications, defeating war strategies of the US and resulting in glorious exploits.
Over the years, he said, HCM City has constantly overcome difficulties and made comprehensive achievements in all areas. The city has maintained political stability, obtained high economic growth, and improved its people’s living conditions.
Despite the negative impact of the economic slowdown in 2012, the country’s largest economic hub fulfilled 25 out of its 30 set targets, contributing to controlling the country’s inflation and maintaining reasonable growth.
This year, Quan said HCM City will continue to speed up economic restructuring to sustain reasonable growth, accelerate administrative reforms, and institutionalize its apparatus, while defending national independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity, and maintaining political stability and social order.