National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue visits President Ho Chi Minh historical site in Kunming

Photo caption — National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue visits the President Ho Chi Minh historical site in Kunming city. Photo: Nhan Sang/VNA.

President Ho Chi Minh lived and worked here from February to October 1940. During his stay, President Ho Chi Minh met with national revolutionaries Pham Van Dong, Vo Nguyen Giap and other comrades in Kunming to discuss important events of the Vietnamese revolution. President Ho Chi Minh also surveyed the Yunnan - Vietnam railway and had many other activities. The President Ho Chi Minh historical site has important historical, cultural and traditional educational values. In 2011, the old house was announced as a city-level cultural relic protection unit; in 2019, the house was announced as a provincial-level cultural relic protection unit.

In order to continue to inherit and promote the traditional friendship between China and Vietnam, promote people-to-people and cultural exchanges between the two countries, on May 19, 2022, the Foreign Affairs Department, the Department of Culture and Tourism of Yunnan Province, the Kunming City Government coordinated with the Consulate General of Vietnam in Kunming and relevant agencies to hold a groundbreaking ceremony to restore the relic site of President Ho Chi Minh's former residence.

The relic site is located in the middle of Nam Hoa Son Street, from house number 89 to number 91, with a ground area of 121.5 m2, construction area of 263 m2. The former residence of President Ho Chi Minh has 3 floors, brick and wood structure, located right next to the headquarters of the People's Government of Ngu Hoa District (Kunming City). The relic site displays many valuable images and documents of President Ho Chi Minh during his life here.

In his guestbook at the relic site, National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue wrote: “I and the high-ranking Vietnamese delegation were very moved when visiting the President Ho Chi Minh relic site in Kunming, which preserves many precious images and documents about the great President Ho Chi Minh, the national liberation hero, and world cultural celebrity. During the revolutionary years, searching for a way to save the country and liberate the nation, President Ho Chi Minh set foot in many places in the world, of which China was the place he was most attached to and had the longest revolutionary activities, together with the senior leaders of the Chinese Party and State, writing a glorious page of history about the wholehearted support and assistance in the revolutionary cause of the two countries, laying the foundation for the "comradely, brotherly" friendship between Vietnam and China. We sincerely thank the Party Committee, government and people of Yunnan province and Kunming city for preserving and restoring the Ho Chi Minh relic site - a vivid testament to the Vietnam - China relationship. Wish you all the best! "Vietnam - China relations will be forever green and forever sustainable".