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Sai Gon 40 years named after President Ho Chi Minh
Sai Gon 40 years named after President Ho Chi Minh
15/7/16
A ceremony was held
in Ho Chi Minh City
on July 2 to mark the 40th anniversary of the day Saigon-Gia Dinh was
officially named after the great Vietnamese national leader, President Ho Chi
Minh (July 2, 1976 - 2016).
For past 40 years, Ho
Chi Minh city has gained enormous and important
achievements, paving good way for development in the future, contributing to
huge and historic achievements of the country.
The ceremony, jointly organized by the Ho Chi Minh City
Party Committee, People's Council, People’s Committee, and the Fatherland Front
Committee saw the presence of State President Tran Dai Quang, former State
Presidents Nguyen Minh Triet and Truong Tan Sang; former Prime Ministers Phan
Van Khai and Nguyen Tan Dung; Politburo members: Truong Hoa Binh, Deputy Prime
Minister, Vo Van Thuong, Secretary of the Party Central Committee (PCC) and
Head of the PCC Commission for Communication and Education; Dinh La Thang,
Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee; together with many other
officials.
“Ho Chi Minh city need to promote the tradition of courage,
activeness, innovation and solidarity, building the city’s party clean and
firm, making a overal power of the entire political system and people”, President
Tran Dai Quang proposed.
The head of State also asked the city to be proactive and
persistent in implementing breakthrough measures to develop economy fast and
firmly, enhancing competitiveness with modern infrastructure, highly-developed
sicience-technology and education-training and stable politics-society…
On behalf of the HCM City leaders, Secretary of the city
party Committee Mr. Dinh La Thang said,
the city has 40 honorable years named after Uncle Ho. Starting at a city
with many slums, polluted canals, the city has relocated and organized life for
more than 36.000 households in areas of Nhieu Loc - Thi Nghe, Tan Hoa - Lo Gom,
Tau Hu - Ben Nghe, brought back the green color for those canals.
The city’s economy has expanded strongly, reaching VND975
trillion (nearly US$44 billion) at present from just over VND2.5 billion
(US$112,500) 41 years ago.
The city’s citizens earned an average per capita income of
US$5,538 per year as of the end of 2015, up 73% compared to 2010. The gap in
the standard of living among population groups has been narrowed to 6.6 times
in 2014 from 10 times in 1992.
Besides, Mr. Thang also pointed out some “obstacles”, which
have hindered the city from developing, including slowly-developed
education-training and sience-technology, slowly-coped social problems…
especially the obstacles which have been made by apparatus, human, bureaucracy,
corruption, waste…
In his speech, Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee
said the Party Committee and people of Ho
Chi Minh City have ceaselessly endeavoured to build
the city into the nation's leading economic hub and a pioneer in the reform
process, contributing to building a civilized and prosperous country.
“These aspirations are great but not unrealistic. All
difficulties and challenges will be solved when we are deeply aware of and try
our best to do decisive issues”, Mr.Thang affirmed.
On July 2nd 1976, the first National Assembly of
Vietnam has unanimously agreed named Sai Gon - Gia Dinh after President Ho Chi
minh
The area of the city accounted for only 0.6% of the
country, but the city is now the engine of Vietnam’s economy with a total
domestic product (GDP) 2015 reached 957.358 billion VND (more than 22%
nationwide), total budget revenue reached 280.767 billion VND (30% nationwide)./.
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Ho Chi Minh city is Vietnam's bustling largest city, setting the cultural and economic pace for the whole country
the war against the US had brought so much death and destruction on our country
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For the United States itself, the war resulted in something America had never experienced before: clear defeat. It caused a wave of second-guessing about America's role in the world, splitting the country between hawks and doves, dividing individual families and the nation itself into angry camps over what went wrong and how much the country had lost its way
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Ho Chi Minh city is a symbol of Vietnam's determination in protecting and building the country
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