On Wednesday, in recognition of the 70^th anniversary of the War Invalids and Martyrs’ Day (27 July), a group of Da Nang’s leaders led by municipal Party Committee (PaC) Deputy Secretary Vo Cong Tri offered incense and laid wreaths at the Quang Nam Province Martyrs’ Cemetery.  Also present at the memorial was Quang Nam’s PaC Deputy Secretary Phan Viet Cuong.

The leaders of the 2 localities at the cemetery

The Da Nang delegation also visited the sandstone monument whose centre features a bust of revered heroic Vietnamese mother Nguyen Thi Thu.  She lost her husband, 9 sons, 1 son-in-law, and 2 grandsons in the war, and she herself died in 2010 aged 106.

Deputy Secretary Tri expressed his deep gratitude to the province’s heroic martyrs who laid down their lives for the nation’s re-unification in the former Quang Nam-Da Nang Province, which in 1997 was officially divided into the 2 administrative divisions of Quang Nam Province and Da Nang City. 

He vowed that the authorities of the 2 localities would jointly boost their bilateral cooperation to accelerate progress in the years ahead, especially to offer better material and spiritual support to their local social policy beneficiaries.

To mark the occasion, the Da Nang delegation presented 4.2 billion VND from the city budget to Quang Nam Province.  The money will be spent on helping 70 social policy families in the province to build new houses or repair their downgraded ones.

Deputy Secretary Tri (right) and heroic Vietnamese mother Nhan

On the same day, the visiting group visited and gave 60 million VND from the city budget to heroic Vietnamese mother Le Thi Nhan in the province’s Phu Ninh District.  The money will be used to help her family to build a new house.

On behalf of the Quang Nam leaders, provincial PaC Deputy Secretary Phan Viet Cuong thanked the party, government, and people of Da Nang for their kind support for the province’s social policy beneficiaries over recent years.  He proudly said that the province has become a pioneer in the implementation of programmes for building new houses and repairing downgraded ones for social policy beneficiaries.