Telegram from Mao Zedong and Others Congratulating Ho Chi Minh on His 70th Birthday[1]

(May 18, 1960)

Comrade Ho Chi Minh, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Workers' Party and concurrently its General Secretary, and President of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, our beloved comrade:

On the happy occasion of your 70th birthday, we wish, on behalf of the Communist Party of China, the Government of the People's Republic of China, and the Chinese people, to extend to you—the founder and leader of the Vietnam Workers' Party, the most beloved leader of the Vietnamese people, an outstanding fighter in the international communist movement, and the closest friend of the Chinese people—our warm, fraternal congratulations.

For decades, with all your energy and your rich experience in revolutionary struggle, you have waged a protracted, heroic, and unyielding struggle for the complete liberation of the Vietnamese working people and for the cause of peace, unification, independence, and democracy in Vietnam, and have achieved tremendous victories. Your outstanding contributions to the revolutionary cause of the Vietnamese people, to the international communist movement and the workers' movement, and to world peace have won you the love and respect not only of the Vietnamese people but also of the people of China and all countries.

We wholeheartedly wish you good health and long life. May you achieve still greater and newer successes in leading the Vietnamese people in building socialism, striving for the peaceful reunification of Vietnam, opposing the war policies and aggressive policies of U.S. imperialism, and defending peace in the Far East and the world.

Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
Liu Shaoqi, Chairman of the People's Republic of China
Zhu De, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China
Zhou Enlai, Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China

May 18, 1960

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[1] This is a telegram sent in the name of Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, jointly with Liu Shaoqi, Chairman of the People's Republic of China, Zhu De, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, and Zhou Enlai, Premier of the State Council, to Comrade Ho Chi Minh, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Workers' Party and concurrently its General Secretary, and President of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, expressing warm, fraternal congratulations on Ho Chi Minh's 70th birthday.