The PM and the delegation also paid respect to President Ton Duc Thang, anexemplary communist and close comrade of President Ho Chi Minh, and a leader ofthe Vietnamese working class.
On June 5, 1911, from NhaRong Wharf of Sai Gon, now Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh, known in those daysas Nguyen Tat Thanh, boarded the ship Admiral LatoucheTreville, beginning his journey to seek waysfor national salvation.
Thirty years later, he returned to Vietnam to lead theVietnamese revolution which successfully conducted the August Revolution in1945 and founded the DemocraticRepublic of Vietnam, now the SocialistRepublic of Vietnam.
On the occasion, PM Chinh visited the thematic exhibition on President Ho Chi Minh which was opened the same day at Nha Rong Wharf to mark the date the nation’s beloved leader began his journey to salvage the country.
The display, sponsored by the Ho Chi Minh Museum’s branches in Ho Chi Minh City and Thua Thien-Hue provinces, introduces 150 photos, pictures and documents on the President’s life before leaving the country, divided into three parts.
Part 1 focuses on the childhood of Ho Chi Minh in Hue and his travel to the south when growing up. Part 2 features the old Sai Gon where Nguyen Tat Thanh lived and worked before boarding the Admiral La Touche De Tréville, and Part 3 introduces the country’s development across the fields./.