State President Nguyen Xuan Phuc on February 17 offered incense and flowers in tribute to late Acting President Huynh Thuc Khang (1876 – 1947) at his tomb on Thien An Mount, north of Tra Khuc River, during his visit to the south-central province of Quang Ngai.
State President Nguyen Xuan Phuc on February 17 offers incense and flowers in tribute to late Acting President Huynh Thuc Khang (1876 – 1947) at his tomb during the visit to the south-central province of Quang Ngai.
Quang Ngai (VNA) – State President Nguyen Xuan Phucon February 17 offered incense and flowers in tribute to late Acting PresidentHuynh Thuc Khang (1876 – 1947) at his tomb on Thien An Mount, north of TraKhuc River, during the visit to the south-central province of Quang Ngai.
Born in 1876 in Thanh Binh Village inTien Phuoc District of nearby Quang Nam province, Khang became a feudal scholar, passing the imperial examination and received his doctorate in 1904. He was oneof the initiators of the Duy Tan, a movement espousing non-violent patrioticactivities, and the founder of Tieng Dan (People’s Voice) newspaper.
After the success of the August 1945 Revolution, President HoChi Minh invited him to join the government system, and Khang served as ActingState President. He died in 1947 while on an inspection tour of the centralregion.
On the same day, Phuc met with leaders of Quang Ngai, one ofthe central region’s industrial hubs. Last year, its State budget revenueexceeded 24.19 trillion VND (1.06 billion USD), 51 percent higher than theyearly plan, despite COVID-19 impacts. Industrial production index (IIP) pickedup 14.5 percent year-on-year.
Speaking at the meeting, President Phuc highly valued theprovince’s performance in 2021, factoring in that its economic growth is thehighest in the central region in the face of the pandemic.
He asked the province to further improve business climateand take advantage of its location – its long coastline –to accelerate growth, pointing to the need of greater heed to enhancing qualityof human resources and sustainably developing Dung Quat Economic Zone.
Theprovince was also urged to improve the effectiveness of agriculture’stechnologies to enable firms to climb up national value chains and removebarriers to the development of tourism and services.
The leader took the occasion to present 150charitable houses for local ethnic minority people from difficultbackgrounds./.
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State President Nguyen Xuan Phuc on February 17 offers incense and flowers in tribute to late Acting President Huynh Thuc Khang (1876 – 1947) at his tomb during the visit to the south-central province of Quang Ngai. 
