NGHỆ AN  — Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has signed a decision to publish a special stamp collection to celebrate the 130th anniversary of President Hồ Chí Minh's birthday and the 50th anniversary of Hồ Chí Minh Museum.

The collection includes only one stamp designed by painter Tô Minh Trang, from Vietnam Post.

Newly released stamp celebrating President Hồ Chí Minh's 130th birthday anniversary and 50th anniversary of Hồ Chi Minh Museum. VNA/VNS Photo Thống Nhất

Measuring 43 x 32mm in size, the stamp features a portrait of President Hồ in the centre. On the right of the portrait is the image of Hồ Chí Minh Museum in Hà Nội with a general layout that looks like a white lotus representing the President’s simple and noble revolutionary life.

The stamp will be available till December 31, 2021.

Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Phạm Anh Tuấn said that with special language containing lots of meaningful messages, the stamp will be a multi dimensional message confirming great values of Hồ Chí Minh’s ideology, contributing to encouraging and educating all people in the society to learn and follow the President’s ideology, morality and lifestyle.

At the stamp releasing ceremony held in the President’s homeland in Nam Đàn District, the central province of Nghệ An on May 16, Minister of Information and Communications Nguyễn Mạnh Hùng handed the stamp model to Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc and local leaders as a gift.

The Vietnam Post representatives handed local Kim Liên Relic Site a painting featuring the stamp at the same ceremony.  — VNS