PANO – The Hanoi City's Standing Committee of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union held a seminar “Hanoi Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union: 80 years with the capital’s glorious development road” on March 21st to mark the 80th anniversary of the Union (March 26th, 1931).

28 reports and memoirs of heads of city’s party boards, scholars, scientists and cadres from youth union organisations delivered at the seminar affirmed that Hanoi Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union has made great contributions to the the causes of national liberation, capital’s construction and protection as well as the Union’s activities .and movements nationwide  during the past 80 years.

During the resistant wars against French and American invaders, members of the Hanoi Youth Union have been very active in the insurrections to wrest back power through various movements such as “Determined to die for national salvation”, “Three Readinesses”, “Truong Son stick” and so on.

The participants also noted that at present, the youth union has been confronting with both advantages and disadvantages, so it should bring into play nation’s traditions as well as continue to make greater efforts to fulfill the assigned tasks to further contribute to the cause of national construction and defence.

Translated by Van Hieu