The 2025 Con Son - Kiep Bac Spring Festival will open on February 13. According to the Organizing Committee, the new feature this year is that right after the opening ceremony, Hai Duong province will organize the launching ceremony of "Tree Planting Festival to forever remember Uncle Ho" in 2025.
The Organizing Committee will plant 60 large pine trees (4-5m high, 10-15cm in diameter), symbolizing the 60th anniversary of Uncle Ho's visit to Con Son and 300 small pine trees planted by the Organizing Committee at the Con Son Relic Site.
On November 28, 1959, President Ho Chi Minh wrote the article "Tet tree planting" published in Nhan Dan newspaper under the pen name Tran Luc, calling on everyone, every household, every organization, and every locality to actively compete in planting and caring for trees and proposed to organize a "Tet tree planting" day throughout the country, becoming a beautiful custom, a meaningful cultural activity every time Tet comes, Spring returns.
In recent years, the tree planting movement during Tet holidays in Hai Duong province has achieved positive results. Forest protection and development work continues to be widely and effectively implemented, contributing positively to environmental protection and socio-economic development of the country.
During his lifetime, on February 15, 1965, Uncle Ho visited the relic and scenic spot of Con Son. He advised: "Cadres and people must protect historical relics well, plant many trees so that Con Son becomes a beautiful pine forest". Remembering his teachings, over the past 60 years, cadres and people of Hai Duong have taken practical actions to restore, embellish and build the Con Son - Kiep Bac relic site into a famous scenic spot at home and abroad.
Since 1960, Con Son has been a national relic ranked in the first phase, and in 2012 became a special national relic. From the late 70s to early 80s, the bamboo forest, pine forest, and vegetation were completely destroyed, with only a few pine trees remaining.
Over the years, special attention has been paid to the protection, renovation and planting of forests here, especially during the annual Spring Tree Planting Festival. The restoration of the Con Son relic site not only revives the natural forests but also connects the forest with the relic site, the country's top scenic spot, ensuring historical, cultural and religious values.
