President Nguyen Xuan Phuc and leaders and former leaders of the Party and State offer incense and flowers in front of the monument of Party General Secretary Nguyen Van Cu, Phu Khe ward, Tu Son city, Bac Ninh province. Photo: VNA

Earlier, President Phuc offered incense and flowers at Nguyen Van Cu's memorial site in Phu Khe ward, Tu Son city, Bac Ninh province and left a tribute-paying note, which describes Party General Secretary Nguyen Van Cu as an outstanding communist and leader of the Vietnamese Party and revolution, who had a strategic vision and set a shining example of revolutionary morality and the spirit of self-study, training and growth through the practice of revolutionary struggle.

Party General Secretary Nguyen Van Cu was born on July 9, 1912 into a patriotic Confucian family in Phu Khe village, Tu Son district, Bac Ninh province. He was the 17th generation descendant of the national hero, world cultural celebrity Nguyen Trai. He was elected Party General Secretary at the age of 26 (in 1938) and heroically died at the age of 29 (in 1941).