(VOVworld) - An exhibition highlighting the country’s development path over the past seven decades opened in Hanoi on Tuesday as part of activities to mark the upcoming National Day. On display are 1,500 items of various kinds ranging from books, magazines, newspapers, photos to digitalized documents and videos illustrating the national liberation and construction under the leadership of the Party and late President Ho Chi Minh. The exhibition’s highlights include a collection of photos presented to the Vietnamese government by French historian Philip De Viler. The photos depict the general uprising to seize power and the birth of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam; and the significance of and lessons from the August Revolution for the nation and international friends. Historian Duong Trung Quoc is the exhibition’s content adviser: "We collected several historical documentary photos of the very first days after the August Revolution and the birth of the Vietnamese government. Most of the selected photos feature the cultural life of those days as, in addition to economics, culture also plays a vital role in national development. This spirit is echoed in President Ho Chi Minh’s saying at the National Cultural Congress in November 1946: “People walk on the roads lit by culture”.
The exhibition will run until September 6.