The National Assembly (NA) Office handed over a relic site of the NA Standing Board in Trung Yen commune, Son Duong district of the northern province of Tuyen Quang to the local authorities for management during a ceremony on August 15.
The site was built in 2006 on the occasion of the 60 th anniversary of the first general election. Later in 2010, a memorial complex inside the relic was built and inaugurated, covering more than 2,000 square metres and encompassing a memorial and a commemorative house.
The house sprawls over 300 square metres and showcases 66 artefacts, 255 photos and materials depicting the history of the Vietnamese NA and its Standing Board in the Viet Bac military zone during the first days of the resistance war.
In mid-1952, the NA’s Standing Board chose Dong Ma village, Trung Yen commune, Son Duong district as its headquarters during the anti-French resistance war, in which a number of key meetings were held and presided over by President Ton Duc Thang.
The handover ceremony was to celebrate the 70 th anniversary of National People’s Congress and the 70 th anniversary of the August Revolution (August 19) and National Day (September 2).-VNA