Introduction
Respecting talents is a long-standing tradition of our country, Vietnam. Our ancestors had many ways of appreciating talents, such as exams, those who competed in the Trang Nguyen, Bang nhan, Tham hoa test would be appointed as mandarins.
Or through self-introduction, for example, Mr. Dao Duy Tu, was directly introduced to Lord Nguyen by his former owner in Dang Trong – southern Vietnam, in the 1700s.
Or the court or the government calls people to take care of the country.
President Ho Chi Minh and the Vietnamese Government after the August 1945 Revolution also repeatedly called for talented people to take charge of the country’s affairs.
Below is an article by President Ho Chi Minh in 1946 year calling on talented people to send their contributions to building the country and send it to the Government.
TALENT AND NATIONAL BUILDING
After 80 years of being tormented by the French colonialists, our country is poor in everything, only the enthusiasm of the people is very high. Now, if we want to maintain our independence, we must put all that enthusiasm into the path of national construction.
Resistance must go hand in hand with national construction. If the resistance war is victorious, then national construction will be successful. If the nation is built successfully, the resistance war will soon win. Construction requires talent.
Even though our country doesn’t have much talent, if we choose wisely, distribute wisely, and use wisely, the talent will grow more and more.
What we need most now is:
Diplomatic construction
Economic construction
Military construction
Educational construction
So we hope that our compatriots who have talent and initiatives for those jobs, and are willing to enthusiastically help the country, will please send a clear plan to the Government.
We will study that plan carefully so that we can implement it immediately.
HO CHI MINH
Ho Chi Minh: Complete Works,
volume 4, p. 99.