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Symposium marks late Party General Secretary’s birthday
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10:49PM (GMT+7), Wed, February 8, 2012
Nhan Dan – A symposium on late Party General Secretary Truong Chinh was held in Hanoi on February 7 to mark his 105th birthday (1907-2012).
Comrade Truong Chinh, whose real name is Dang Xuan Khu, was born in February 9, 1907 to a patriotic Confucian family in Hanh Thien village, Xuan Hong commune, Xuan Truong district, Nam Dinh province. Speeches at the symposium highlighted significant contributions made by comrade Truong Chinh, a preeminent leader of the Vietnamese revolution, an excellent theorist of the Party’s culture, a journalist, a revolutionary poet and a great character. His writings such as ‘Draft of Vietnamese Culture’ (1943) and ‘Marxism and Vietnamese Culture’ (1948) are outstanding theoretical works on Vietnamese revolutionary culture. His viewpoints on the important role of culture in the revolution process and in all aspects of social life continue to be relevant today. They are in accordance with the Party’s guidelines in the ‘Doi Moi’ (Renewal) process, and affirm that culture is a spiritual foundation of the society, serving as the objective and the motivation for social development. The late Party leader was also a veteran journalist, who paid great care for training and directing his future generations’ fellow workers. He had expert opinions on the role and principals the professional as well as virtues of a journalist. As a poet under the penname of Song Hong, his poetry served the revolution, which can be seen through poems that feature the realities and burning issues of contemporary life. The Party official is highly respected by intellectuals and artists for his intelligence, profound understanding on the country’s history and culture, high sense of responsibility, scientific and careful working manner, and for having lived a modest, untarnished, and sincere lifestyle. He is also an exemplar of revolutionary virtues, a man who was truly industrious, thrifty, had integrity; was honest, public spirited, selfless, and wholeheartedly devoted his life to the revolutionary cause of the Party and nation.
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