Authorities in Da Nang are pooling feedback from local citizens and organizations on a collection of names, including a late local charismatic leader, to give streets and other public works over the next five years.
The municipal Department of Culture and Sports said it had coordinated with experts, historians, and culture pundits to draft a bank of names for streets and public works in the city from 2017-2022.
The list includes Nguyen Ba Thanh, the city’s former Party chief.
“Thanh was proactive, creative, daring, audacious, and willing to take responsibility despite challenges,” the draft says.
“He formulated populist and humanitarian social welfare policy to step-by-step form a modern and beautiful Da Nang.”
Thanh died on February 13, 2015 from Myelodysplastic syndrome, a type of cancer in which the bone marrow is unable to produce healthy blood cells and instead there are abnormal (blast) cells in the blood and/or bone marrow.
Citizens in Da Nang mourned his death in crowds, turning the national spotlight on the good Thanh did for his city.
Thanh, born in Da Nang’s Hoa Vang District in 1953, served as secretary of the Da Nang City Party Committee from 2003 to late 2012 before moving to Hanoi to serve as head of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for Internal Affairs.
From 1996 to 2003, he served as the first chairman of the city after Da Nang was separated from the former Quang Nam-Da Nang province.
Thanh was also deputy head of the Central Steering Committee for Anti-Corruption, led by Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong.
Other names on the list include Truong Quang Duoc, another former Party chief of Da Nang; Mai Thuc Lan, former Party chief of the erstwhile Quang Nam-Da Nang province; and several other ex-leaders.
The list also features flowers such as phong lan (orchid), phuong vy (delonix regia), hoa sim (rhodomyrtus tomentosa), and others.
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