Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh visits President Ho Chi Minh relic site in Yunnan

On the afternoon of November 5, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and the Vietnamese high-ranking delegation offered flowers and visited the President Ho Chi Minh historical site in Kunming city, Yunnan province, China.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh presented a portrait of Uncle Ho to the relic site where President Ho Chi Minh lived at 91 Nam Hoa Son Street, Ngu Hoa District, Kunming City. (Photo: Duong Giang/VNA)

According to the special correspondent of VNA, during the program of attending the 8th Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Summit, the 10th ACMECS Summit, the 10th Ayeyawady-Chao Phraya-Mekong Economic Cooperation Strategy Summit (ACMECS), the 11th Cambodia-Laos-Myanmar-Vietnam (CLMV) Summit and working in China, on the afternoon of November 5 local time, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and the Vietnamese high-ranking delegation offered flowers and visited the President Ho Chi Minh historical relic site in Kunming city, Yunnan province, China.

As the founder of the Vietnam-China friendship, throughout his revolutionary career, wherever he was and in whatever position he held, President Ho Chi Minh always had good feelings for the Party, State and people of China. His name has been associated with many places in China, touching people's hearts, becoming a vivid symbol of the Vietnam-China friendship.

The Ho Chi Minh historical site in Kunming City is one of them. The site is located at 89-91 Nam Hoa Son Street, with a land area of 121.5 square meters, built with 3 floors, made of bricks and wood, right next to the headquarters of the People's Government of Ngu Hoa District, Kunming City. Up to now, the site has welcomed over 110,000 visitors.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh writes in the guestbook when visiting the relic site of President Ho Chi Minh's residence in Kunming city. (Photo: Duong Giang/VNA)

Visiting here, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh was introduced by the leaders of the Relic Site Management Board about the precious artifacts, images and documents that have been carefully preserved, recreating the time when President Ho Chi Minh lived and worked here from February to October 1940 before returning home to directly lead the Vietnamese revolution.

Also during this time, President Ho Chi Minh met with Vietnamese revolutionaries, the late Prime Minister Pham Van Dong, General Vo Nguyen Giap and other comrades in Kunming to discuss important events of the Vietnamese revolution.

Along with artifacts about his daily life, the relic site preserves many images and documents about President Ho Chi Minh's feelings for the leaders of the Party, State and people of China; images and documents about the period of revolutionary activities and President Ho Chi Minh's visits and work in China.

The Ho Chi Minh historical site has important historical, cultural and traditional educational values. In 2011, the old house was declared a city-level cultural relic protection unit. In 2019, the house was declared a provincial-level cultural relic protection unit.

In order to continue to inherit and promote the traditional friendship between China and Vietnam, promote people-to-people and cultural exchanges between the two countries, in 2022, the relic site of President Ho Chi Minh's former residence will be restored.

Signing the golden book of souvenirs, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh expressed his emotion when visiting the relic site, affirming that this is a valuable historical relic, demonstrating the tradition of solidarity and attachment of the revolutions of the two Parties and two countries of Vietnam and China.

The Vietnamese Government sincerely thanks the Party Committee, Government and People of Yunnan Province for respectfully preserving the relic site; affirming that this will always be a "red address" for people, especially the young generation of the two countries, to study, thereby actively contributing to fostering the friendship "both comrades and brothers" between Vietnam and China to be forever green and sustainable./.

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