Lam and Vietnamese officials from the delegation paid floral tribute to martyr Pham Hong Thai (1895-1924), one of Vietnam’s revolutionary activists, at his tomb in Huanghuagang Park.
In 1924, Thai, a local from the central province of Nghe An, was accused of murdering Martial Merlin, governor-general of French Indochina, who was visiting Guangzhou.
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 site of the relic is a charge related to the revolutionary career of Nguyen Ai Quoc who remained in Guangzhou from 1924 to 1927, seeking paths of 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 Road), one of the first theoretical documents of the Communist Party of Viet Nam.
The Guangzhou leadership renovated and inaugurated the relics on April 30, 2002, on the occasion of President Ho Chi Minh’s 112th birthday.
Visiting the relics, To Lam wrote in the guestbook praising President Ho’s remarkable contributions to the education of the first generation of unwavering communists in Viet Nam. He also thanked the Chinese Party and state, as well as the Guangdong leadership, for preserving the relics.