Lam and Vietnamese officials from the delegation paid a floral tribute to martyr Pham Hong Thai (1895-1924), one of Vietnam’s revolutionary activists, at his grave in Huanghuagang Park.
In 1924, Thai, an inhabitant of the central province of Nghe An, was commissioned to assassinate Martial Merlin, governor-general of French Indochina, who was visiting Guangzhou at the time.
Huanghuagang Park has since become “a red address” for all Vietnamese when they stop in Guangzhou.
Later, To Lam and his entourage visited the Vietnam Revolutionary Youth Association, the predecessor organization of the Communist Party of Vietnam founded by Vietnamese leader Nguyen Ai Quoc (Ho Chi Minh).
The relic site is a post related to the revolutionary career of Nguyen Ai Quoc who stayed in Guangzhou from 1924 to 1927, seeking paths to national salvation.
There, Nguyen Ai Quoc opened three political courses for Vietnamese revolutionary activists. His lectures were compiled and published in the e-book Đường Kách Mệnh (Revolutionary Path), one of the first theoretical documents of the Communist Party of Vietnam.
The Guangzhou leadership renewed and unveiled the relics on April 30, 2002, on the occasion of President Ho Chi Minh’s 112th birthday.
At the relic site, To Lam wrote in the visitor’s book praising President Ho’s notable contributions to the education of the first generation of stalwart communists in Vietnam. He also thanked the Chinese Party and state, as well as the Guangdong leadership, for preserving the relic site.