Various activities mark 128th birthday of President Ho Chi Minh
Various activities were held nationwide to mark the 128th birth anniversary of President Ho Chi Minh who devoted his whole life for Vietnam’s struggle for national liberation and national reunification.
An art performance at the Sen Village Festival 2018 (Photo: VNA)
Nghe An(VNA) – Various activities were held nationwide to mark the 128th birthanniversary of President Ho Chi Minh who devoted his whole life for Vietnam’sstruggle for national liberation and national reunification.
In the late leader’shometown at Sen village, Kim Lien commune, Nam Dan district of the centralprovince of Nghe An, the “Le hoi Lang Sen” (Sen Village Festival) took placefrom May 16-19 to express the local people’s love and respect for the leader.
The festival, whichis held every year on the occasion of the President’s birthday, includeddiverse activities such as the screening of documentary films and a photoexhibition on the President, and a singing contest involving 600 artists.
Meanwhile at the NhaRong port in Ho Chi Minh City, where Ho Chi Minh boarded a ship to begin hisjourney to seek a way to savage the country in 1911, an exhibition was held,showcasing nearly 200 photos and documents highlighting President Ho Chi Minh’srole in patriotic emulation movements.
The President issuedan appeal on patriotic emulation on June 11, 1948, starting long-term andlarge-scale emulation drives across the fields in the cause of nationalconstruction and defence.
It gave visitors aninsight of the current patriotic emulation campaigns in association with thecampaign to study and follow President Ho Chi Minh’s moral example.
The exhibition alsointroduced Ho Chi Minh City’s achievements and outstanding figures throughoutpatriotic emulation movements.
Also on May 19, nearly13,000 people paid tribute to the late President at Duc Thanh school historicalrelic site at Ho Chi Minh Museum in the south central province of Binh Thuan.President Ho Chi Minh, known as Nguyen Tat Thanh then, spent about one yearteaching at Duc Thanh school from 1910 to early 1911.
More than 120 photosand items were displayed at the museum to highlight the Ho Chi Minh ideology onrevolutionary ethics along with exemplary models in the campaign on studyingand following the late leader’s moral example.
At the same time, inthe central province of Thua Thien-Hue, an exhibition of 50 posters onpatriotic emulation campaigns was open to visitors in Hue city. The posters werechosen from 492 works of 204 painters across the country sent to a contest onthe occasion of the 70-year of President Ho Chi Minh’s call for patrioticemulation in 1948.
President Ho ChiMinh (1890-1969), was the founder of the Communist Party of Vietnam. He laidthe foundation and led the Vietnamese revolution to victory in the 20th century with the establishment of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945.-VNA
The Vietnamese Consulate General in the Lao province of Savannakhet on May 18 held an incense offering ceremony at President Ho Chi Minh Memorial House in Sayaphoum village, Kaysone Phomvihane township, to celebrate the late leader’s 128th birth anniversary (May 19).
Crowds of people from across the country were present at Ba Dinh Square on May 19 to attend the flag salute ceremony in celebration of the 128th birthday anniversary of late President Ho Chi Minh.
A delegation of senior officials of Ho Chi Minh City on May 19 offered incense and flowers at the Ho Chi Minh Museum’s city branch and Ho Chi Minh Statue in the southern city on the occasion of the late leader’s128th birth anniversary (May 19, 1890).
The VNA delegation, led by General Director Vu Viet Trang, actively participated in the event, engaging in both professional and diplomatic activities.
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An art performance at the Sen Village Festival 2018 (Photo: VNA) 
