Party Building

Eighty years of so much love

Ngo Duc Tien • DNUM_CGZADZCACF 07:50

On the occasion of the 95th anniversary of the Party's founding on February 3 this year, two veteran Party members, both veteran cadres of the Nghe An Provincial Party Committee, were awarded the noble badge of 80 years of Party membership and both reached the age of 100. They are the two veteran comrades Nguyen Dinh Trien and Ngo Xuan Lan.

Ngo Duc Tien• March 26, 2025

On the occasion of the 95th anniversary of the Party's founding on February 3 this year, two veteran Party members, both veteran cadres of the Nghe An Provincial Party Committee, were awarded the noble 80-year Party membership badge. They are the two veteran comrades Nguyen Dinh Trien and Ngo Xuan Lan.

Comrade Nguyen Dinh Trien was born in 1925, in a poor peasant family in Thuong Xa village, Nghi Loc district, now Nghi Xa commune, Nghi Loc district. Inheriting the family's tradition of patriotism and revolution, with his father and brother being revolutionary soldiers active in the Nghe Tinh Soviet movement of 1930/1931, Nguyen Dinh Trien soon joined the secret Viet Minh organization in the first months of 1945, then actively participated in the uprising to seize power in the August Revolution of 1945. Immediately after the August Revolution, he participated in resistance work from the commune to the district. In 1953, he was assigned to work as a lecturer at the Nghe An Provincial Cadre School, the predecessor of the Nghe An Provincial Party School. In 1959, implementing the policy of the Central Committee, the Nghe An Provincial Party Committee established the Provincial Party Committee's Party History Research Board, and he was transferred to the Party History Board. When it was first established, the committee only had a few cadres, with the Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Vo Thuc Dong, a former political prisoner in Con Dao, as the concurrent Head of the Committee, with Phan Dinh Dong, also a former Soviet soldier in Nghe Tinh, as the Deputy Head, Nguyen Dinh Trien as the Committee Member and a few assistant cadres. In 1962, Phan Dinh Dong retired, and Nguyen Dinh Trien became the Deputy Head of the Committee.

During the years of the resistance war against the US to save the country, the Provincial Party Committee was evacuated to many places. Under the leadership of the Provincial Party Secretary, comrade Nguyen Dinh Trien directly established the Party History Research Board to both collect documents and compile and publish works recording the revolutionary struggle tradition of the Nghe An Party Committee, especially the examples of the Party's predecessor communists who were also outstanding children of Nghe An such as Uncle Ho and comrades Le Hong Phong, Phan Dang Luu, Nguyen Thi Minh Khai... to serve the Party Committee's propaganda work.

In early 1976, the two provinces of Nghe An and Ha Tinh merged, comrade Nguyen Dinh Trien was appointed as Head of the Party History Research Board of Nghe Tinh Provincial Party Committee. From 1976 to 1988, as Head of the Board, taking advantage of the leadership of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee, comrade Nguyen Dinh Trien built and trained a team of experts and cadres of the board, this team sometimes reached over 20 people, many of whom became managers, writers specializing in historical topics such as Chu Trong Huyen, Bui Ngoc Tam, Tran Huy Tao, Nguyen Sy Dam, Nguyen Van Dinh, Ngo Duc Tien... Major projects such asUncle Ho's childhood, Nghe Tinh Soviet, History of Nghe Tinh Party CommitteeandCommunists in Nghe Tinh homeland, and hundreds of memoirs of party members who were active during the Party's secret activities from 1930 to 1945. All of these works bear the mark of the Head of the Department who was passionate about collecting, summarizing, researching, and compiling. For topics that had not yet been compiled into books, he sent cadres to large archives in the South and the North to collect, copy, and store them in the department's archives. He himself also directly recorded, researched, and compiled them.

With the knowledge of Nom and Quoc Ngu scripts that his parents sent him to study before the revolution, but with his excellent memory, he studied and researched on his own, becoming a "living archive". Whenever anyone asked him about any event or any person active during the period of the Party's founding movement from 1925 to 1930, during the period from 1930 to 1945... in Nghe Tinh, he told them in detail and clearly. Since 1988, he retired and directly helped the Dai Ton Nguyen Dinh family collect and compile the genealogy of the Cuong Quoc Cong Nguyen Xi family, of which he was one of the descendants.

With an old bicycle, he cycled to the Nguyen Dinh clan with more than 150 large branches in Nghe An, Ha Tinh, Thanh Hoa... connecting the horizontal and vertical branches, generations, he, Professor Nguyen Dinh Chu, journalist Nguyen Thanh Tien... compiled the Nguyen Dinh family genealogy, one of the massive genealogy books, rich in documents about a large family with 600 years of glorious history. This is the work summarizing several decades of historical research by old comrade Nguyen Dinh Trien.

The day he was honored to be recognized as a Pre-Uprising cadre was witnessed by his wife, but the day he was awarded the 80-year Party membership badge, she had passed away. He brought the badge and the Certificate of Recognition to place solemnly next to her photo, to remember the wife who helped him receive the noble honors bestowed by the Party.

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Also having similarities with comrade Nguyen Dinh Trien, Mr. Ngo Xuan Lan came from a poor peasant family with a tradition of patriotism. In mid-1945, when his uncle Ngo Xuan Ham, who had just been released from Ban Me Thuot prison, met him and assigned him the task of writing leaflets and copying Viet Minh propaganda documents and participating in the local government. At the end of 1946, Mr. Ngo Xuan Lan was honored to be admitted to the Party and was assigned to be the first party cell leader of Vinh Tuy village.

In mid-1947, Yen Thanh district established Le Doan Nha Private High School, Mr. Ngo Xuan Lan enrolled and was assigned the responsibility of being the Principal (a position similar to the Secretary of the School's Youth Union) of the school. During the 3 years of high school, comrade Ngo Xuan Lan and the school's leadership contributed to training intellectual youth to supplement the human resources for the resistance war against the French. In 1950, more than 50 teachers and students of Le Doan Nha School volunteered to join the army to supplement the main army units. Because of his disabled leg, Ngo Xuan Lan had to stay in the rear and was sent to study resistance pedagogy in Nghe An. After a year of studying with a good degree, Ngo Xuan Lan was assigned to work as a teacher at Le Doan Nha School.

In 1953, when Phan Chu Trinh High School evacuated from Vinh to merge with Le Doan Nha School, Ngo Xuan Lan was appointed Principal and Secretary of the Yen Thanh District Education Party Cell. In 1961, Yen Thanh High School was established, Mr. Ngo Xuan Lan was transferred to work as a teacher and was appointed as the first Party Cell Secretary of Yen Thanh High School. In 1963, Yen Thanh High School was divided into two schools, Ngo Xuan Lan was assigned to work as Party Cell Secretary, directly working with the school leaders to build the team, build facilities, and compete in teaching well and studying well.

Here, he had the initiative to propose to the Party Cell and Yen Thanh District Party Committee to train and admit excellent 10th grade students to the Party. In one year, Yen Thanh 2 School Party Cell admitted 28 student party members. Many later became successful officials such as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Tam Chien, Colonel - Doctor Tran Quang Chau, Associate Professor, Doctor Dao Khang, engineer Dao Quang Hoa, Colonel - Doctor Tran Ngoc Khai, Standing Member of the Provincial Party Committee - Head of the Inspection Committee Ho Thi Ha, Secretary of Yen Thanh District Party Committee Pham Xuan Hoi...

From the initiative of the Party Cell of Yen Thanh 2 School, the movement to train and recruit Party members for senior students spread to high schools in Nghe An. Since 1968, teacher Ngo Xuan Lan was sent to study long-term at Nguyen Ai Quoc School, then was sent to the Philosophy Postgraduate course at Nguyen Ai Quoc High-level Party School. After finishing his studies, he was transferred to the Propaganda Department of Nghe An Province and assigned to be the Head of the Propaganda Department. As the main reporter of the Provincial Party Committee, with his extensive knowledge, combining theory with practice, with his innate talent and special memory, comrade Ngo Xuan Lan cycled to party bases, schools, battlefields, construction sites... to disseminate the policies of the Party and the State. Wherever he went, he was warmly welcomed by the masses. In the common achievements of the Party Committee and people of Nghe An in the cause of fighting against the US to save the country, there were outstanding contributions from the Party's propaganda team, of which comrade Ngo Xuan Lan was an outstanding nucleus.

In 1976, the two provinces of Nghe An and Ha Tinh merged, Tran Phu Party School was established, comrade Ngo Xuan Lan was transferred to be the Head of the Philosophy Department of the school. Here, he promoted his ability to both teach and conduct scientific research, and summarize practical experiences to write articles for the Party building section of newspapers from local to central levels such as Nghe Tinh/Nghe An Newspaper, Communist Magazine... In 1989, he was allowed to retire, but continued to work as a reporter for the Dong Vinh Commune Party Committee and helped the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department write a book.50 years history of Nghe An Propaganda sectorUntil early 2024, he still regularly attended Party cell meetings, listened to the radio every day, read newspapers and books, and wrote down his feelings in his notebook.

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This spring of At Ty, both comrades Nguyen Dinh Trien and Ngo Xuan Lan have enjoyed the full blessing of longevity, both were awarded the 80-year Party membership badge. Previously, both comrades were recognized as pre-uprising cadres and were awarded the First Class Resistance Medal against the French/Americans. That is a rare thing. The two veteran cadres Nguyen Dinh Trien and Ngo Xuan Lan are exemplary models of studying and following Uncle Ho's moral example, the pride of the Party Committees where the two comrades worked and contributed, and also the Nghi Loc District Party Committee and Yen Thanh District Party Committee - the hometown of the two comrades.