Ho Chi Minh City Youth Cultural House: 50 years of steadfastness as a meeting place for youth

Ảnh chụp Màn hình 2025-09-04 lúc 20.09.51.png — Ho Chi Minh City Youth Cultural House is a meeting place for young people. Photo: NVHTN

On September 4, the Ho Chi Minh City Youth Cultural House held a ceremony to celebrate its 50th anniversary (September 4, 1975 - September 4, 2025). Attending the program were comrades: Nguyen Manh Cuong, Vice Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee; Pham Nguyen Duy Trang, Secretary of the Central Youth Union, Chairman of the Central Council of Young Pioneers; Ngo Minh Hai, Member of the City Party Committee, Vice Chairman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Ho Chi Minh City, Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Youth Union.

Imprint

According to Professor, Doctor - Historian Nguyen Khac Thuan, the address No. 4 Duy Tan during the resistance war was a center of political struggle of Saigon - Gia Dinh youth, students and pupils in the vibrant urban movement in the South. Here, the movements to fight for peace and national unification flared up. From then on, the flame of patriotism rose high through sleepless nights, awakening and uniting tens of thousands of young people to "Get up and go to the streets to fight", initiating movements such as "Sing for my people", "Burn American vehicles", provide relief to compatriots, and the marches caused great resonance, spreading everywhere, receiving support from many sectors and classes in society.

During the historic Ho Chi Minh campaign, the Youth Cultural House became the gathering point for 5 troops of the Saigon-Gia Dinh Youth Union to join the uprising to seize power. From then on, the Youth Club (the predecessor of the Youth Cultural House) was officially born.

The headquarters of the Saigon Student Association at 4 Duy Tan became the headquarters of the City Youth Union in the early days after liberation. In September 1975, the Standing Committee of the City Youth Union decided to choose 4 Duy Tan as the Youth Club, and in 1979 it was officially upgraded and renamed the Youth Cultural House. On March 26, 1985, the Standing Committee of the City Youth Union decided to place a traditional commemorative stele at the Youth Cultural House with the content: "4 Duy Tan - Center of public struggle of the city's youth during the American war" and included this location in the history of the City Youth Union.

According to comrade Hoang Don Nhat Tan, former Director of the Youth Cultural House from 1985-1989, the City Youth Union directed the organization of many activities, orienting the youth towards the noble goals of the country, suitable and typical of the city's youth. "50 years have passed, from No. 4 Duy Tan to the Youth Cultural House has become a meeting place for the city's youth, a meeting place for the spirit of volunteering, volunteering to be at the forefront of the cultural and artistic movement, building a new life, volunteering for the community...", comrade Nhat Tan emotionally shared.

50th Anniversary of the Founding of the Ho Chi Minh City Youth Cultural House

Many vibrant cultural and artistic activities taking place at the Youth Cultural House have contributed to creating a new face for the youth life in Ho Chi Minh City. Since then, this place has gathered a large number of artists, is the incubator of artistic dreams; become a diverse ecosystem of clubs and teams, meeting the needs of learning and entertainment, affirming its attraction to young people.

In addition to the awards and recognition of typical young people in many fields, this is also the place where many humane programs are initiated, such as the Youth Wedding Support Office, the Collective Wedding program for people and young people in difficult circumstances, etc.

Youth Cultural House gathers many artists

Opening a new path

Comrade Ngo Minh Hai, Vice Chairman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Ho Chi Minh City, Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Youth Union, affirmed that the Ho Chi Minh City Youth Cultural House is the red address of the youth, student and pupil movement of Saigon - Gia Dinh - Ho Chi Minh City, the intersection of the heroic history and the aspirational future of the city's youth; also the meeting place of history, the meeting place of youth, the meeting place of Ho Chi Minh City's youth for more than half a century.

On behalf of the Standing Committee of the City Youth Union, he highly appreciated the efforts of the leaders, officers and staff of the Youth Cultural House of all periods. The 50-year journey of the Youth Cultural House is not only the growth, perfection and maturity of a public service unit under the City Youth Union, but it is also the mark, breath and aspiration of the city's youth through the events for which the Youth Cultural House was selected.

Secretary of Ho Chi Minh City Youth Union Ngo Minh Hai speaks

The Youth Cultural House is the place to organize, initiate and spread the atmosphere of a generation of young people, seething and excited in the early days of liberation, together taking over the city and protecting security; it is the image of the fluttering flag leading tens of thousands of young people from the city volunteering to go to the farms and the border to build the country.

It is also the intact emotion at the launching ceremony of the first Green Summer volunteer campaign in the whole city; the "I love my Fatherland" festival days spreading throughout the city; the days and nights with the City, because the City overcomes the Covid-19 pandemic. In particular, the City Youth Cultural House is assigned to organize the Ho Chi Minh City Youth Festival - Youth Fest - a festival exclusively for young people in Ho Chi Minh City where the spirit of "Connection - Spread - Adaptation" is spread and shared....

Performing at the Ho Chi Minh City Youth Festival - Youth Fest 2025. Photo: CAM TUYET

“Entering the era of national development, the Youth Cultural House continues to write its brilliant journey of youth together with the City Youth Union and the city's youth. In particular, we are excited and proud to receive the attention of the City leaders in deciding to carry out the project of building the new Youth Cultural House into a multi-functional project on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Youth Cultural House. This is an opportunity and advantage, but also poses many challenges, requiring the Youth Cultural House to constantly innovate and create to continue to affirm its role as a "meeting place for the city's youth", said comrade Ngo Minh Hai.

In the coming time, the Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Youth Union asked the Youth Cultural House to continue promoting traditions, spreading and educating patriotism, national pride and a sense of responsibility, generosity and loyalty to the city's youth through activities.

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According to Mr. Nguyen Hong Phuc, Director of the Youth Cultural House: “Over the past 50 years, the Youth Cultural House has welcomed millions of young people to visit, participate in activities, learn skills, enjoy art, or join hands in volunteer activities... It is a proud journey that we have taken with enthusiasm and enthusiasm, to always be young, fresh, and an indispensable meeting place for young people”.

With continuous efforts in activities, creativity and dedication, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of its establishment, the Youth Cultural House was honored to receive certificates of merit from the Central Committee of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union and the Central Committee of the Vietnam Youth Union for the collective and 15 outstanding individuals.