The Nam Dinh Province people’s committee and party committee has named a road after the late Politburo member and Nobel Prize winner Le Duc Tho to commemorate his 100th birth anniversary, and began work on a memorial for him.

Tho, who was also secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam central committee and head of its Commission for Organization, was a native of the northern province.

Many senior officials attended the groundbreaking ceremony for the memorial, including Politburo member and standing member of the central party secretariat, Le Hong Anh, and another member of the secretariat and head of the central party committee’s Commission for Propaganda and Education, Dinh The Huynh.

A memorial house and stele, a worship place, a reception area, gardens, and a semicircular lake will be built.

The ceremony was followed by the renaming of the road which runs through Nam Truc District where Tho was born.

Tho (October 10, 1911 – October 13, 1990) was an outstanding student of President Ho Chi Minh and a prominent leader of the Vietnam Communist Party, Huynh said at a symposium held yesterday in Nam Dinh highlighting his life and revolutionary career.

In 1973 Tho was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, Vietnam’s only winner so far, but he declined it saying Vietnam was at war.