The ideology of serving the people was always highly valued by President Ho Chi Minh. This ideology originated from the very beginning of the nation’s founding, starting the arduous journey of building a truly state of the people, by the people, and for the people. Article 1 of the 1946 Constitution affirmed: “Viet Nam is a democratic republic. All power in the country belongs to the entire Vietnamese people, without distinction of race, gender, wealth, class, or religion.”