Leaders pay tribute to President Ho Chi Minh on Party’s 95th founding anniversary

The delegation included General Secretary To Lam, President Luong Cuong, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, and VFF President Do Van Chien.

The same day, the delegations from the Central Military Commission - the Ministry of National Defense, the Central Public Security Party Commission - the Ministry of Public Security, and the Party Committee, People’s Council and People’s Committee of Ha Noi also laid wreaths and paid tribute to President Ho Chi Minh at the late leader’s mausoleum and heroic martyrs at the Monument to Heroic Martyrs.

On February 3, 1930, in Hong Kong, China, comrade Nguyen Ai Quoc chaired the conference to merge three communist parties in Viet Nam in to the Communist Party of Viet Nam. 

This is the decision of great historical significance, gathering the three communist party organizations into a single force with a clear revolutionary and unified path. The first Political Platform adopted at the conference figured out the basic path of the Vietnamese revolution, meeting the pressing needs of history and became a flag to father and unite the communist party organizations, revolutionary forces, and the entire nation. This historic event put an end to the crisis in the policy and organization of the Vietnamese revolution, opening up a new era in our country's history – the era of struggle for national independence and advancement to socialism.

Since its inception, with the right guidelines, appropriate and creative methods, practical organizational capability, and tenacious fighting, and heroic sacrifices of many generations of cadres, party members, and with the people's trust, love, support and whole-hearted protection, the Communist Party of Viet Nam led the country to gain great victories of historic and era significance.

Within just 15 days after its birth, the Party evolved continuously and led the national liberation struggle, achieving the Victory of the August Revolution, establishing the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam on September 2, 1945, eradicating the semi-feudal colonial regime in Viet Nam, opening a new chapter in the nation's history. Vietnamese people from being slaves became the masters of the country, the society and their own lives.

After the success of the August Revolution, our country faced countless difficulties and challenges, concurrently confronting "hunger enemy, illiteracy enemy, and foreign invaders".

In a situation "hang by a thread", our Party led our people to steadfastly protect and build the young government, while actively preparing in all aspect for the resistance war against French colonial invasion. Our Party, with right guidelines and capacity to promote the strength of the entire nation, led our people to defeat all enemy's plots and invasion plans throughout nine years of arduous and heroic resistance war, culminating in the historic Dien Bien Phu victory, forcing the French colonists to sign the Geneva Agreement on restoring peace in Indochina in 1954.

During 20 years afterward, our country was divided and there was no peace. Under the leadership of the Party and President Ho Chi Minh, with an iron will and unshakable determination, our people overcome countless hardships and sacrifices during the great resistance war to defeat the war strategies of the American imperialists, completely liberating the South, reunifying the country, and writing down one of the most heroic pages of our nation, an event of global and contemporary significance. This was the realization of the vision and the determination adopted at the 3rd National Party Congress in September 1960: "Our country Viet Nam is one, our Vietnamese people are one. Our country will definitely unify on the basis of independence and democracy, our nation will definitely be reunited in peace, freedom and happiness. Rivers may dry up, mountains may erode, but our people's will to unify the Fatherland will be unshakable and definitely we will win".

While having to urgently overcoming the extremely severe consequences left by the war, our country had to continue to face new challenges. The Party continued to lead our entire army and people to strive to revive the society and economy, improve people's life, and stubbornly fight to maintain every inch of the Fatherland's sacred soil, protect national independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity, and living space of the nation, and concurrently performing noble international duty for the Cambodian people.

In the face of the new requirements in national development process, to overcome the shortcomings caused by the centrally-planning and bureaucratic mechanism that led to the socio-economic crisis in the post-war years, our Party envisioned and implemented a comprehensive innovation policy, marking an important milestone on the transition to socialism in Viet Nam. Such policy has proved to meet the practical requirements of the process of building the country's economy, defense, security, and diplomacy, demonstrating the steadfast stuff and creative thinking of the Communist Party of Viet Nam and opening up a new stage for national development.

After nearly 40 years of implementing the innovation policy under the leadership of the Party, our country has overcome all difficulties and obtained great achievements of historic significance. From a poor, war-torn, besieged and isolated country, Viet Nam has become a developing, middle-income country deeply and widely integrating into the global politics, the global economy, and the global human civilization, undertaking numerous international responsibilities and promoting active roles at many important international organizations and multilateral forums. National independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity have been maintained, national interests have been ensured. The size of the economy reached over US$450 billion in 2024, making Viet Nam the 32nd largest economy in the world and among the top 20 economies in terms of trade and foreign investment attraction. People's life has improved remarkably, the poverty rate has fell significantly down to 1.93 percent (according to multidimensional poverty standards) compared to that in 1986. Political, economic, cultural, social, scientific-technological, defense and security potentials have been constantly improved. Diplomatic stature has been increasingly expanded; the country's position and prestige have been increasingly enhanced, making positive contributions to addressing regional and international issues. Viet Nam has undertaken many tasks as a member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the United Nations and other international organizations and institutions, and widely recognized and highly appreciated by the international community.

The great achievements of the Vietnamese revolution over the past 95 years came as a result of various factors, in which the correct and wise leadership of the Party is the top decisive factor, along with the sacrifices, fighting, hard work and creativeness of the entire people and army under the leadership of the Party, as well as the support and assistance from international friends. In difficult and challenging times, our Party exhibited its stuff and solidarity, being a unified bloc of will and action, thereby leading and directing the whole political system to strive to gain great and comprehensive achievements across fields./.