General Secretary and President To Lam visits the Vietnam Revolutionary Youth Association Headquarters relic site in Guangzhou

Within the framework of the State visit to the People's Republic of China at the invitation of General Secretary and President of China Xi Jinping and his wife, on the morning of August 18, immediately after arriving in Guangzhou city, Guangdong province, General Secretary and President To Lam and his wife, together with the high-ranking Vietnamese delegation, offered flowers and incense to commemorate Martyr Pham Hong Thai at Hoang Hoa Cuong Cemetery Park; and visited the relic site of the Vietnam Revolutionary Youth Association Headquarters.

General Secretary and President To Lam offers flowers to commemorate Martyr Pham Hong Thai. Photo: Tri Dung/ VNA

At Hoang Hoa Cuong Cemetery Park - a cultural tourism destination of Guangzhou city, General Secretary and President To Lam, his wife and the high-ranking Vietnamese delegation offered flowers and incense to commemorate Martyr Pham Hong Thai, together remembering the merits of the revolutionary predecessor, expressing deep gratitude for his heroic sacrifice for the revolutionary cause of the Party and the nation, vowing to join the entire Party, the entire army and the entire people to promote the tradition of solidarity, revolution, the will of self-reliance, and build Vietnam to develop more and more rapidly and sustainably.

In front of the tomb, there is a large stele inscribed in Chinese characters recounting the heroic deeds of martyr Pham Hong Thai. Comrade Pham Hong Thai's grave has the words "Tomb of Martyr Pham Hong Thai" in Vietnamese and Chinese. This place has become a red address for every Vietnamese person when coming to Guangzhou to visit.

Martyr Pham Hong Thai (1895-1924), native of Hung Nhan commune, now Chau Nhan commune, Hung Nguyen district, Nghe An province, was a Vietnamese patriot who died in Guangzhou on June 19, 1924. Participating in the Tam Tam Xa organization founded by Ho Tung Mau and Le Hong Phong in 1924, Pham Hong Thai was assigned to assassinate Governor-General of Indochina Henry Merlin when Merlin visited the Sa Dien concession. Unsuccessful, Pham Hong Thai threw himself into the Pearl River to commit suicide. The "Sa Dien Bomb Sound" incident shocked the Chinese press and public opinion at that time, contributing to encouraging the national liberation movement that was rising throughout Asia.

General Secretary and President To Lam and his wife, along with the Vietnamese delegation, pay tribute to Martyr Pham Hong Thai. Photo: Tri Dung/VNA

Respecting and admiring the spirit of self-sacrifice for the country of the great Vietnamese hero, the people of Guangzhou buried him on Nhi Vong Cuong hill, the grave facing the Southwest so that his soul would always yearn for the Fatherland.

Next, General Secretary and President To Lam and his wife, along with the high-ranking Vietnamese delegation, visited the Vietnam Revolutionary Youth Association Headquarters Relic Site, located at house number 13, now 248 and 250, Van Minh Street, Guangzhou City - a place associated with the revolutionary career of President Ho Chi Minh from 1924 to 1927.

General Secretary and President To Lam and his wife, along with the high-ranking Vietnamese delegation, were moved to see photos recording President Ho Chi Minh's years of close association with local people in Guangzhou.

The relic of the Vietnam Revolutionary Youth Association Headquarters at house number 13 (now 248-250) Van Minh Street, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, China is a place associated with the revolutionary career of President Ho Chi Minh in Guangzhou from 1924 to 1927. House number 13 was the headquarters of the Vietnam Revolutionary Youth Association, the predecessor organization of the Communist Party of Vietnam founded by Nguyen Ai Quoc and published the Thanh Nien newspaper, the mouthpiece of the Association's General Department.

Here, Nguyen Ai Quoc opened three political training classes, training Vietnamese revolutionary cadres, with a total of 75 people. He was directly in charge and was the main lecturer. His lectures were collected and published in the book “The Revolutionary Path”, a manual for the activities of the Vietnam Revolutionary Youth Association, one of the first theoretical documents of the Communist Party of Vietnam.

In 1971, the house at No. 13 Van Minh Street was decided by the People's Republic of China to be preserved as a memorial site of President Ho Chi Minh, named "Headquarters of the Vietnam Revolutionary Youth Association". The site is under the management of the Guangdong Museum of Revolutionary History and has been ranked as a national historical and cultural site of China.

In 2002, the Guangzhou City Government invested in comprehensively renovating the Relic and inaugurated the Relic on April 30, 2002, on the occasion of the 112th anniversary of President Ho Chi Minh's birthday.
Over the years, the Guangdong Revolutionary History Museum, Guangzhou Culture Bureau has preserved and promoted the role of this historical relic. The Vietnam Revolutionary Youth Association Headquarters relic includes: classrooms, Uncle Ho's room, students' rooms, kitchen and a display room displaying documents about Uncle Ho's activities in Guangzhou from 1924 to 1927. The relic is an important red address for Vietnamese people to visit every time they come to Guangzhou, a vivid testament to Nguyen Ai Quoc's years of active activities in the neighboring country and also an embodiment of the friendship between the two Parties, two States and people of Vietnam and China.

General Secretary and President To Lam was moved to write in the Guestbook: “The delegation of the Party and State of Vietnam was deeply moved to visit the relic of the Vietnam Revolutionary Youth Association Headquarters - where beloved President Ho Chi Minh spent his revolutionary years, where the first generations of loyal communists of Vietnam were trained, where the impartial and pure international communist sentiments and the traditional friendship, solidarity, and closeness, “both comrades and brothers” between the two Parties, two countries and peoples of Vietnam and China were witnessed. Sincere thanks to the Party and State of China, the Party Committee and Government of Guangdong province for always paying attention to preserving and conserving the relic of the Vietnam Revolutionary Youth Association Headquarters. The friendship between Vietnam and China will be forever green and everlasting!”

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