General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong's teacher in a wheelchair visits her student

Amidst the long line of people lining up to pay their respects to General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong since early this morning, the image of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong’s teacher sitting in a wheelchair to pay her respects moved everyone. In front of the General Secretary’s coffin, Ms. Dang Thi Phuc burst into tears, walking step by step on trembling legs.

At a rare age, Ms. Dang Thi Phuc confided: “My student Trong was sick, I could not visit him. When he passed away, I could not see his face for the last time. I considered Trong as my youngest brother, so I felt as if I had just lost a blood relative. I mourned an honest leader who loved the people.”

Teacher Dang Thi Phuc taught General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong in grade 4. The class had 48 students, but Ms. Phuc had a special impression of Trong because he was the youngest but studied the best, and was diligent in giving constructive comments on the lesson.

After 4th grade, Trong transferred to Nguyen Gia Thieu School, and Ms. Phuc also moved to Hanoi. They lost contact from then on. In 2001, after attending a reunion with the 4th grade students, Ms. Phuc was very happy to hear that her little student had become successful.

According to teacher Phuc, on important teachers' holidays or Lunar New Year, the General Secretary, despite being busy with many important matters, still remembered to congratulate his former teacher. On Lunar New Year 2024, she still received wishes from her students.

Sharing with Nhan Dan Newspaper reporter, Ms. Tran Thi Xuan Phuong, teacher Phuc's daughter said: 'When she received the news of the General Secretary's death, she was very sad. She asked everyone: Let me visit, let me visit him, let me visit my family. Last night she kept crying: He should have come to visit me. But now I have to come to visit him.'