The complex, located inside the Presidential Palace in Hanoi, is where President Ho Chi Minh lived and worked for 15 years until he died in September 1969. Over the past 40 years, generations of officials and staff of the complex have made every effort to search, collect and preserve objects relating to the late president.

Since 1969, the complex has received approximately 50 million domestic and foreign visitors who come to study President Ho’s revolutionary life. It has become a popular address for Vietnamese individuals and collectives to carry out activities in response to the Party-launched campaign of “Studying and Following late President Ho Chi Minh’s Moral Examples”.

In August 2008, the Prime Minister signed a decision to categorise it as a special national historic and cultural relic complex.

Addressing the awards ceremony, President Triet stressed that President Ho Chi Minh is the great teacher, leader and cultural activist who steered the Vietnamese revolution to victory. He called on every Vietnamese to draw up their own plans of action to study and follow the late President’s moral examples to successfully build socialism in the country.