Relics of Money Printing Factory at Chi Ne Plantation

Relics of Money Printing Factory at Chi Ne Plantation

The first money printing factory of the Vietnamese revolutionary government was located at Chi Ne plantation (period 1946 - 1947), now Co Nghia commune, Lac Thuy district, Hoa Binh province. Here, the first "Financial Notes - Uncle Ho's Notes" carrying a great historical mission in the early days of independence of the revolutionary government were born. The relic was ranked at the National level by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism in 2007. After the August Revolution of 1945 succeeded, our country faced extremely harsh challenges. One of the emerging issues is finance, but importantly the issuance of currency by the Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. While the Provisional Government is facing difficulties and confusion with the facility to print and issue Vietnamese banknotes so that it can be financially proactive and fight economically with the enemy, Mr. Do Dinh Thien, a bourgeois Patriotic people voluntarily spent money to buy back the entire French To-Panh (Taupin) printing factory in Hanoi and donated it to the Government to set up a money printing factory. Thanks to that, the revolutionary government had its own money printing house, meeting part of its spending needs in a situation where the treasury was almost empty. In March 1946, facing the risk of the money printing at Topanh Printing House being exposed, President Ho Chi Minh, the Government and the Ministry of Finance decided to find a new location to move the entire printing house out of Hanoi. . Once again, it was Mr. Do Dinh Thien who proactively proposed that the Ministry of Finance move the printing factory to his family's plantation in Chi Ne (Hoa Binh). It was here that the 100 dong Vietnamese banknote, also known as the "green buffalo" banknote, was born. Uncle Ho's Finance Note was born with an extremely important historical mission: to contribute to the monetary struggle with the enemy to protect national independence and become a weapon of struggle on the economic and financial front. - currency, removing the Indochina currency of the French colonialists from our country, making a decisive contribution to providing material needs and circulating goods in our people's long resistance war against the French. The money printing factory at Chi Ne plantation was twice honored to welcome Uncle Ho to visit. This is where the first historical marks of the Ministry of Finance in particular, the national Finance in general and a glorious revolutionary period are kept. In 2007, the historical site of the Money Printing Factory at Chi Ne Plantation (1946-1947) was ranked by the State as a national historical site. The money printing factory at Chi Ne plantation has a total area of ​​15.64 hectares, including items such as: Money printing factory; Uncle Ho's family came to visit and work; Silver storage; Hall house; Reception house; reliefs at the printing workshop area; garden planted with trees; transportation system throughout the region; flower garden park; Reception areas and cultural and entertainment facilities; resorts, hotels, restaurants... The relic site is truly a meaningful project, a place to preserve historical marks of the Ministry of Finance in particular, of the national finance in general and a period of glorious revolutionary history of the Vietnamese people. . Source: Ministry of Finance electronic information portal

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