The city earlier held a design competition for the statue, which attracted 32 designs. The designs were displayed for public and expert opinions.
The selected design, which features the statue measuring 4.5m in height with a 1.8m-high platform, satisfies stringent artistic and technical standards. It also reflects the momentous significance of the statue in the southern hub, where President Ho set off for ways to liberate the country in 1911, while depicting President Ho’s portrait, his plain, modest lifestyle as well as his affectionate bonds with average people.
The Party’s city committee will also provide guidance so that the author will keep improving his design.
The new statue, which is to be placed in front of the HCMC People’s Committee in district 1, will be erected some 9m away from the current one, towards the Saigon River.
The statue and its surrounding 1-hectare area are of the greatest importance in the city’s downtown area and is supposed to create an open, congruous space with the city’s People’s Committee mansion, the city’s Opera Theater and Nguyen Hue Street’s section for passers-by. The city People’s Committee mansion has been listed as a treasured architectural item to be preserved.
The current statue of President Ho hugging kids will be relocated to the city’s Children House in April 2015 to mark his 125th birthday in May.
President Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969) is an eminent revolutionist and scholar and was key to the country’s triumphs in wars to gain independence in the 20th century. He wrote and read the country’s Declaration of Independence in 1945 and served as the country’s president from 1945 to 1969.
President Ho has been held in high reverence by locals and people around the world, and was voted as one of the 20th century’s 100 most influential personalities by the Time magazine.
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