The Declaration of Independence
On August 25, 1945, President Ho Chi Minh arrived in Hanoi. The house of businessman Trinh Van Bo was chosen by the Central Committee of the Communist Party as his residence and workplace in those first days after returning to the capital from the Viet Bac resistance base.
Assigned by the Central Party Secretariat, President Ho Chi Minh drafted the Declaration of Independence. Seated at a dining table on the second floor of 48 Hang Ngang Street, Hanoi, he wrote this pivotal historical document with great enthusiasm, joy, and boundless pride. He remarked that, although he had written much in his lifetime of revolutionary work, this was the first time he could compose a Declaration of such significance.
The historic Declaration of Independence proclaimed the founding of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, the total abolition of colonial and feudal authority, and affirmed the right of the Vietnamese nation to freedom and independence before the people of Vietnam and the world.