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Leader backs effort to save historic base
President Nguyen Minh Triet has urged the country as a whole to help develop the historic village of Pac Bo in Truong Ha Commune in the northern mountainous province of Cao Bang, a place famous as a revolutionary base during the anti-French resistance.
The president's message was conveyed on the occasion of his two-day visit starting on Monday. The commune was the place that president Ho Chi Minh stayed in 1941 after his 30-year period of travel abroad. President Ho used the Pac Bo base as the headquarters of the revolutionary struggle for national freedom and independence.
Triet said: "There are many provinces, such as Cao Bang, that have met many difficulties when trying to develop their local economy due to their unique geographical location. Helping to improve local people's living standards is the whole country's responsibility."
Triet also listened to a report on a cattle raising project based at Pac Bo village and the project to remove mud brick houses, and to build cultural villages in the commune.
During his trip to the village in 2008, Triet presented Pac Bo residents with VND400 million (US$22,000) for the purchase of 80 buffaloes and cows for 80 households. The president was happy to see that the villagers have efficiently used that money as now the number of cows and buffaloes of the village has reached 137, livestock now worth VND800 million (US$44,000).
On the occasion, the Saigon Commercial Bank and other enterprises from HCM City presented Truong Ha Commune with VND5 billion ($278,000). This money will help the commune replace mud brick houses, build cultural villages and relocate cattle raising sites further from people's housing to improve environmental and sanitary conditions.
President Triet hoped that Truong Ha authorities would efficiently use the funding and help the commune residents to become more involved in farming and cattle rearing, while improving their living standards.
Truong Ha, which shares the border with China has an area of 3,000ha with only 10 per cent of the land being cultivable. The commune consists of nine villages with 395 households, in which 49 per cent are listed as poor households.
The president also visited Cao Bang High School in the province during his trip.
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