Celebrating the 110th Birthday of General Secretary Ha Huy Tap

(Baonghean.vn) - On April 23, in Ha Tinh City, the Provincial Party Committee, People's Council, People's Committee, and Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Ha Tinh province solemnly held a ceremony to celebrate the 110th birthday of comrade Ha Huy Tap - General Secretary of the Party (April 24, 1906 - April 24, 2016).

Comrades Nguyen Phu Trong - General Secretary of the Party Central Committee; Nong Duc Manh - former General Secretary of the Party Central Committee; Former Politburo members - former National Assembly Chairmen Nguyen Van An, Nguyen Sinh Hung; Politburo member - Head of the Central Economic Commission Nguyen Van Binh and many comrades representing leaders of Central Committees, Ministries, Branches and organizations attended.

Before the ceremony, General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and delegates offered flowers, burned incense, and planted trees at the Memorial Site and Tomb of General Secretary Ha Huy Tap (Cam Hung Commune, Cam Xuyen District, Ha Tinh).

The General Secretary offered incense at the memorial site of comrade Ha Huy Tap. Photo: VOV

The celebration began with a special semi-epic art program with the theme "Ha Huy Tap, a loyal communist soldier", recreating the life, background and career of General Secretary Ha Huy Tap - one of the loyal and talented communist soldiers of the Party, an outstanding son of his homeland Ha Tinh.

Comrade Ha Huy Tap was born on April 24, 1906, in a poor Confucian family in Kim Nac village, Tho Ngoa commune, now Cam Hung commune, Cam Xuyen district, Ha Tinh province - a land of talented people, the birthplace and nurturing of many outstanding children who have brought glory to their homeland and country such as: Great poet Nguyen Du; patriot Phan Dinh Phung; Comrade Tran Phu - the first General Secretary of the Party.

General Secretary and former Party and State leaders at the ceremony. Photo: VOV

With 35 years of age, 16 years of revolutionary activities, of which nearly 2 years as General Secretary, comrade Ha Huy Tap and the Central Executive Committee have steered the revolutionary boat through storms and tempests, bringing the Party's revolutionary cause forward. His contributions and contributions are remembered by the Party and the People.

Learning from the example of General Secretary Ha Huy Tap and revolutionary predecessors, inheriting and promoting the fine traditions of the revolutionary homeland, the Party Committee and people of Ha Tinh vow to join hands, unite, and be determined to build Ha Tinh to develop faster and more sustainably in an industrial and modern direction, worthy of being the homeland of General Secretary Tran Phu and General Secretary Ha Huy Tap./.

Tran Dinh Hung

Propaganda Department of Ha Tinh Provincial Party Committee