Leaders will have to show the way for Ho Chi Minh City which will begin to apply the late President Ho Chi Minh’s moral example, the city leader has said.
Le Thanh Hai, secretary of the city Party Committee and head of the Steering Board for the campaign to “Learn and follow Ho Chi Minh’s moral example”, was speaking at a meeting to review implementation of the campaign in the city.
The main aim of the campaign was to “encourage people to follow Uncle Ho’s moral example of fighting against bureaucracy and embezzlement”, not to squander money, and to practice thrift, he said.
City leaders would also have to keep ensure that the cadres followed these practices, he said.
Last year the city organized courses for 739,031 party members, officials, and the public on Ho Chi Minh’s moral precepts. Party organizations also held essay competitions for members and the public on the subject.
Mr. Hai appreciated the courses saying their contents were germane.
The campaign to learn about and follow Ho Chi Minh’s moral path is a continuation of similar campaigns in the past. It is aimed at promoting the traditional moral values of Viet Nam, and fighting moral decline, red tape, corruption, squander, and social evils.
The campaign is also targeted at consolidating socialist moral values and building a socialist society in which people have upstanding morality, firm political will, and a cultured lifestyle and are able to develop healthy and progressive social relations.
The campaign, which began in 2007, will go on until 2011. In the first stage, intensive learning courses have been organized by all Party cells and committees and State agencies on Ho Chi Minh Thought and the leader’s moral precepts.
Party organizations have developed a specific moral code of conduct for people to practice. Starting this year the campaign will be reviewed annually on Ho Chi Minh’s birth anniversary on May 19.
