Establishment of the Council for Appraisal of the Planning for Preservation, Repair, Restoration and Promotion of the Value of the Bac Son Uprising National Special Relic

Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Nguyen Van Hung signed Decision No. 3672/QD-BVHTTDL dated October 17, 2025 on the establishment of the Council for Appraisal of the Planning for Preservation, Restoration, Restoration and Promotion of the Value of the Bac Son Uprising National Special Relic, Lang Son Province.

Accordingly, Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Nguyen Van Hung decided to establish a Council to appraise the Planning for preservation, restoration, rehabilitation and promotion of the value of the special national relic of Bac Son Uprising, Lang Son province.

Dr. Architect Hoang Dao Cuong, Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, is the Chairman of the Council; Associate Professor Dr. Le Thi Thu Hien, Director of the Department of Cultural Heritage, Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, is the Vice Chairman of the Council; Associate Professor Dr. Dang Van Bai, Vice Chairman of the National Cultural Heritage Council and Major General Dr. Nguyen Xuan Nang, Former Director of the Vietnam Military History Museum, are the Reviewers.

The Council also has members who are leaders of the People's Committee of Lang Son province; Department of Cultural Heritage; Vietnam National Administration of Tourism; Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Lang Son province; National Museum of History; representatives of units of the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment, Ministry of National Defense, Ministry of Construction , Ministry of Finance, National Institute of Architecture...

The Council is responsible for assessing the Plan for preservation, restoration, rehabilitation and promotion of the value of the Bac Son Uprising National Monument, Lang Son Province, synthesizing the results and submitting them to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism for consideration and decision. The Council is responsible for its assessments and conclusions.

Nong Luc communal house relic, Hung Vu commune - Where the Bac Son district Party Committee meeting took place to decide on the uprising to seize power

The Bac Son Uprising National Special Relic Site is located in Lang Son province. This is where the Bac Son culture was discovered, dating back about 11,000 - 6,000 years ago, belonging to the Early Neolithic period, showing that this was an ancient human settlement.

This is where the first armed uprising took place under the leadership of the Party, where the National Salvation Army I, the predecessor of the heroic Vietnam People's Army, was established. 80 years ago, on the evening of September 27, 1940, in Bac Son district, Lang Son province, under the leadership of the local Party Committee, a force of about 600 people attacked Mo Nhai post, liberated Bac Son district, and abolished the colonial and feudal government.

The uprising caused a great resonance, signaling the beginning of a new period of struggle for the Vietnamese revolution: a period of combining armed struggle with political struggle; the uprising of the masses combined with the attacks of the revolutionary armed forces, overthrowing the enemy government, gaining independence and freedom. The Bac Son uprising was the premise for the birth of the Bac Son Guerrilla Team.

The Bac Son Uprising had an extremely great historical significance for the Vietnamese revolutionary movement and the national liberation movement in Indochina during World War II, opening a new period of struggle for the Vietnamese revolution - a period of combining political struggle with armed struggle, mass uprising combined with the attack of revolutionary armed forces to seize power for the people.

Although the victory took place on a local scale, the Bac Son uprising had important historical significance in the process of fighting for national liberation, independence and freedom of our people under the leadership of the Party.

The Bac Son uprising demonstrated that our Party's leadership and direction at that time was correct and wise; leaving our Party valuable lessons on leadership and direction methods, on conducting armed uprisings to seize power in the historic August Revolution of 1945 and for the following great victories in the history of the Vietnamese revolution.

Vu Lang Lake

Today, the special national relic of Bac Son Uprising has typical and important historical value in the system of Vietnam's revolutionary military historical relics, marking a series of events of special significance.

With its outstanding historical value, the Bac Son Uprising Historical Site was ranked as a Special National Monument by the Prime Minister (in Decision No. 2499/QD-TTg, dated December 22, 2016).

Bac Son is also a safe area to hide and protect the agencies and high-ranking officials of the Central Committee and the Northern Party Committee during revolutionary activities. Therefore, in 2016, Lang Son province was recognized by the Prime Minister as a total of 12 ATK communes and the Bac Son ATK area (in Decision 2475/QD-TTg dated December 18, 2016).

On April 24, 2018, the People's Committee of Lang Son province approved the project on socio-economic development, conservation and restoration of historical relics for 4 communes of the An Toan Zone and Bac Son Safe Zone, Lang Son province until 2025 (in Decision No. 775/QD-UBND).

The Bac Son Uprising has an extremely great significance to the history of the Vietnamese nation, and is a shining symbol of patriotism and indomitable will of the Bac Son army and people in particular and the Vietnamese army and people in general.

Today, historical events, festivals, and customs of the people associated with the locations of the Bac Son Uprising Historical Site are precious cultural heritages that need to be continued to be cared for, preserved, exploited, and promoted, creating more resources for the socio-economic development of the locality. The DT area has become a "living miniature museum" - a place to preserve the imprints of space, time, and artifacts associated with a heroic historical period of the nation.

In recent years, the work of managing, protecting and promoting the value of relics in the area has been paid attention to and focused on by Party committees at all levels, authorities and the whole society, and has achieved certain results, creating positive changes in awareness and action, contributing to educating historical and cultural traditions and promoting the development of local economy, society, tourism and services.

However, besides the achievements, the management, protection and promotion of relic values ​​still have many limitations, especially in planning, zoning, boundary marking, and granting land use right certificates for relics...

The above situation not only causes difficulties in creating corridors and legal bases for the management and protection of relics, increases the risk of encroachment and encroachment on land, premises, space and landscape at relics; even causes the risk of destruction and degradation of relics... but also makes the scale and investment resources for conservation and promotion of relic values ​​in the area limited, fragmented, unsynchronized, not commensurate with the pace of socio-economic development, not effectively promoting the role and orientation of the state, mobilizing all social resources to build and form large-scale works worthy of the content and value of relics, towards forming a number of typical cultural - heritage spaces to effectively serve the work of propaganda, education on traditional history, national consciousness, community consciousness, conservation and promotion of cultural heritage values ​​associated with local economic, social and tourism development.

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  Restoring and promoting the value of Bac Son Uprising relics

With outstanding archaeological, historical and revolutionary values, of great significance in the revolutionary process of national construction as well as potential values ​​of cultural landscape, in 2022, the Prime Minister approved the task of Planning the Bac Son uprising relic site in Decision No. 1018/QD-TTg dated August 30, 2022.

In the general planning of Lang Son province, Decision 236/QD-TTg approving the Planning of Lang Son province for the period 2021 - 2030, with a vision to 2050, with the general goal of the Planning is to build Lang Son into a border province with a developed economy, stable society, national defense, security, and a guaranteed ecological environment, one of the growth poles, the economic center of the Northern midland and mountainous region, an increasingly important "bridge" in economic and trade connections between Vietnam, ASEAN countries, China and Europe, the planning of Bac Son relic site becomes an urgent task contributing to the preservation and promotion of the value of the relic site in particular and the socio-economic development of Lang Son province, Lang Son province in general.

Based on the actual situation and development requirements in the new period, based on Decision No. 1018/QD-TTg approving the task of establishing the "Plan for preservation, restoration, rehabilitation and promotion of the value of the Bac Son Uprising National Special Relic, Lang Son Province" of the Prime Minister dated August 30, 2022 with the aim of fully identifying the values ​​of the relic, preserving and promoting the values ​​of the relic, completing the protection boundary of the relic area and serving as a legal basis for managing and protecting the relic; establishing, appraising, approving and implementing component projects for preservation, restoration, rehabilitation and promotion of the value of the relic; developing regulations to manage and control the architectural landscape planning space of the relic and areas adjacent to the relic, in accordance with the approved planning and other relevant planning.

This is a necessary and urgent task not only for preserving local heritage in connection with the country's revolutionary relic system but also creating a basic driving force for building and developing the local economy and society.

Focused tasks:

Conduct a more comprehensive survey and assessment of the relics in the relic site; classify, create links, and connect points; establish investment priority sequences, synthesize, and propose solutions for preservation, restoration, and promotion of relic values...; create an important premise in building a scientific data system to serve the storage, research, and study of relics and the relic system of the province.

Determine the scope and measures for preserving, restoring and renovating the original elements of each relic in a defined area, orient the spatial organization of auxiliary works, technical infrastructure systems and create a suitable landscape environment in the relic area.

Create a corridor, legal and scientific basis for the management, protection and promotion of relics; implement master plans and detailed plans for each relic and relic cluster; establish, appraise, approve and implement component projects for investment in construction, preservation, renovation, restoration and promotion of the value of each relic site and area associated with the development of local economy, society, tourism and services according to the planning project in a convenient, synchronous and effective manner; allocate, arrange and adjust land funds, establish cadastral records, delineate, set up boundary markers, issue land use right certificates and carry out inspection and supervision work to put the management and use of land, premises and relic space into order.

With the above requirements, the establishment of "Plan for preservation, restoration, rehabilitation and promotion of the value of the Bac Son Uprising National Special Relic, Lang Son Province" is necessary, consistent with the orientation of preserving and promoting the value of the province's cultural heritage, with the integration and development process and the goals and orientations for economic, social, security, defense development and general planning of Lang Son province in the new period.

Source: https://bvhttdl.gov.vn/thanh-lap-hoi-dong-tham-dinh-quy-hoach-bao-quan-tu-bo-phuc-hoi-va-phat-huy-gia-tri-di-tich-quoc-gia-dac-biet-khoi-nghia-bac-son-20251020172240216.htm