Party chief attends live TV programme marking 70 years of regrouping to the North
A live television programme was held on November 16 evening to mark 70 years since compatriots, cadres, soldiers, and students from the South regrouped to the North (1954 - 2024), with Party General Secretary To Lam attending from the southernmost province of Ca Mau.
Ca Mau (VNA) – A live television programme was held on November 16 evening to mark 70 years since compatriots, cadres, soldiers, and students from the South regrouped to the North (1954 - 2024), with Party General Secretary To Lam attending from the southernmost province of Ca Mau.
Jointly held by Vietnam Television (VTV) and the Party Central Committee’s Information and Education Commission, the programme was linked to sites in Ca Mau, the northern port city of Hai Phong, and the central province of Thanh Hoa.
Ca Mau was one of the localities selected as assembly points in 1954, along with Ba Ria-Vung Tau and Dong Thap, while Hai Phong and Thanh Hoa as welcome points, apart from Thai Binh and Nghe An.
In the autumn of 1954, tens of thousands of compatriots, cadres, soldiers, and students from the South gathered in the North for training as decided by the Party Central Committee and President Ho Chi Minh in preparation for the struggle for the liberation of the South and national reunification.
The programme featured special art performances and a documentary highlighting the great national unity bloc, in which Party General Secretary Lam stressed that “We stand at a historic opportunity to lead the nation into a new era — the era of the nation's rise and transformation”.
He stressed the urgent need to strengthen and promote the great national unity bloc under the leadership of the Party, considering this one of the key solutions to bring the nation into the new era.
Earlier, the leader and his entourage visited the national historic site at the southern bank of the Doc River in Song Doc town, Ca Mau province’s Tran Van Thoi district, where southern forces regrouped to the North in late 1954 and early 1955.
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