Keyword: Declaration of Independence

(GLO) – Vietnam marked the 80th anniversary of its independence by reaffirming ambitious long-term national targets: to become a modern upper-middle-income country by 2030 and a developed, high-income socialist nation by 2045.

On September 2, 1945, at the historic Ba Dinh Square, President Ho Chi Minh read the Declaration of Independence, on behalf of the entire nation, proclaiming to the world the establishment of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (now the Socialist Republic of Vietnam).