Ho Chi Minh City organizes many activities to commemorate and pay tribute to late President Ton Duc Thang

On August 20, the Department of Culture and Sports of Ho Chi Minh City and the Ton Duc Thang Museum organized a meeting to celebrate the 137th birthday of President Ton Duc Thang (August 20, 1888 - August 20, 2025). This is a special activity to express deep gratitude to Uncle Ton - a staunch communist, exemplary leader, an excellent son of his hometown An Giang, a loyal soldier of the international communist and workers' movement.

Speaking at the meeting, Mr. Pham Thanh Nam - Director of Ton Duc Thang Museum reviewed the life, career and revolutionary activities of President Ton Duc Thang. He was a pioneer in the workers' movement and the national liberation movement in Vietnam, and one of the close comrades in arms of the great President Ho Chi Minh .

Delegation of leaders of the City Party Committee, People's Council, People's Committee, and Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Ho Chi Minh City offered incense to commemorate President Ton Duc Thang.

President Ton Duc Thang was born in his hometown of An Giang . He devoted his whole life to the struggle for national independence and socialism of our Party and people. President Ton Duc Thang's revolutionary life is a shining example of loyalty and devotion to the Party and the People, always upholding the heroic and indomitable spirit, maintaining revolutionary ethics: Diligence - thrift - integrity - uprightness - modesty and simplicity.

Delegates cut the ribbon to open the thematic exhibition "25 years of Ton Duc Thang Award".

At the meeting, the Ton Duc Thang Museum also received many valuable artifacts and documents donated by representatives of President Ton Duc Thang's family. Notably, these were household items that Uncle Ton and his wife had used at the house at 35 Tran Phu Street (Hanoi) since 1959; photos recording Uncle Ho's activities during the period 1968-1979, along with many diplomatic gifts presented to President Ton Duc Thang by ambassadors from the Soviet Union, Poland, and Czechoslovakia.

Ton Duc Thang Museum received artifacts from representatives of the late President Ton Duc Thang's family and presented certificates of gratitude to individuals who contributed artifacts.

On this occasion, Mr. Vien Hong Quang also presented the Ton Duc Thang Museum with 24 valuable documentary films recording Uncle Ton's revolutionary activities from 1964 to 1976.

On the same day, August 20, a delegation of leaders of the City Party Committee, People's Council, People's Committee, and Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Ho Chi Minh City came to offer incense in memory of President Ton Duc Thang.

Delegates visited the thematic exhibition "25 years of Ton Duc Thang Award".

The delegates respectfully offered incense and flowers to commemorate the leader of the working class, a shining example of thrift, integrity, and wholehearted service to the revolution and the people. Afterwards, the leaders cut the ribbon to open the thematic exhibition “25 years of Ton Duc Thang Awards”. The exhibition (from August 20 to December 31) was organized by the Ton Duc Thang Museum, with many precious images, documents and artifacts.

According to the Director of Ton Duc Thang Museum, with nearly 400 documents, artifacts, and exhibits of award-winning individuals, the exhibition aims to honor outstanding workers, engineers, and laborers with many initiatives, technical innovations, and active contributions to the emulation movement for excellent labor, creative labor, and training of young workers...

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