Incense offering for late President on National Day

Attendees included Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, Defence Minister Phung Quang Thanh, Public Security Minister Tran Dai Quang, Secretary of the HCM City Party Committee Le Thanh Hai along with revolutionary war veterans and representatives from organizations, businesses and schools.

Senior leaders and delegates burnt incense and placed flowers on the altar and portrait of President Ho Chi Minh, expressing their great gratitude to the beloved leader and the national liberation hero who made significant contributions and devoted all his life to national independence, freedom and happiness.

After the incense offering ceremony, they visited and heard an introduction on   photo exhibition reviewing 45 years of carrying out President HCM’s testament hosted by the Ho Chi Minh Museum’s HCM City Branch.

The Ho Chi Minh Museum’s HCM City Branch was known as Nha Rong Wharf, where patriotic Vietnamese man Nguyen Tat Thanh went abroad to look for a way to save the country in 1911.

After more than 30 years of travelling abroad, Nguyen Tat Thanh, later President Ho Chi Minh, became a revolutionary leader who led the Vietnamese people to make a great success of the August Revolution in 1945, establishing the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, now the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. 

On the occasion, HCM City hosted an array of photo exhibitions featuring many photos and documents having great values and presenting an overview of historical circumstances and struggles to win the great victories of the Vietnamese army and people, from the revolutionary movements that culminated by an historic uprising in August 1945 and the birth of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.

Exhibitions, running until September 10, also highlighted the public unanimity, the effective mobilization of social resources and combined strength of the whole political system in building new rural areas in Ho Chi Minh City.