During their stay, Vietnamese reporters paid floral tribute to martyr Pham Hong Thai at his grave in the Huanghuagang Cemetery Park as well as visited the relic site of the headquarters of the Viet Nam Revolutionary Youth League, Guangzhou Museum of Modern History and Guangzhou Uprising Memorial Hall in Guangzhou City.
At the Huanghuagang Cemetery Park, which is a cultural destination in Guangzhou City, Vietnamese reporters laid flowers and offered incense in tribute to martyr Pham Hong Thai.
Pham Hong Thai was born on May 14, 1895 in the central province of Nghe An in Viet Nam. During his stay in Guangzhou for revolutionary operation, Thai tried to assassinate then French Governor-General Martial Merlin. After the unsuccessful assassination, he was hunted and then threw himself in the Pearl River on June 19, 1924.
The event shocked the press and public opinion in China at that time, contributing to encouraging the rising national liberation movement across Asia.
Deeply moved and respectful of Thai's self-sacrificing spirit for the nation, the Guangzhou municipal government buried his remains in the Huanghuagang Cemetery Park.
The delegation then visited the relic site of the headquarters of the Viet Nam Revolutionary Youth League, the predecessor organisation of the Communist Party of Viet Nam. This site is connected to the revolutionary career of late President Ho Chi Minh in Guangzhou during the 1924 – 1927 period.
At this place, President Ho Chi Minh wrote articles, laid out, and printed the issues of Thanh Nien (Youth) Newspaper - the first official organ of the Vietnamese revolution.
There, the leader also held three political training courses for Vietnamese revolutionary cadres. He was the direct supervisor and the main lecturer. His lectures were compiled and published into the book "Duong Kach menh" (The Revolutionary Path), which served as a handbook for the Viet Nam Revolutionary Youth League.
On the same day, the delegation visits Guangzhou Museum of Modern History and Guangzhou Uprising Memorial Hall.
