HCM City, April 20 -- A national scientific seminar looking back on the Great Spring Victory 1975 and charting Vietnam's path toward a new era of development was held in Ho Chi Minh City on April 20.

The event was hosted by the Ministry of National Defence, in coordination with the Party Central Committee's Commission for Information, Education, and Mass Mobilisation, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics, and the municipal Party Committee.

In his opening remarks, Minister of National Defence Gen. Phan Van Giang underscored the monumental significance of the 1975 Spring Offensive. He vividly recalled how, under the leadership of the Politburo and the command of the General Staff of the Vietnam Peo...