Names of Ho Chi Minh City "ya dingin" or "ya hering", meaning "cool and cold" or "cold and clear", respectively—perhaps referring to the appearance of the area's many waterways. On July 2, 1976, upon the formal establishment of the modern-day Socialist Republic of Vietnam, the new government renamed the city after Hồ Chí Minh, the first leader of North Vietnam. The official name is now "Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh"; "Thành phố" is the Vietnamese word for "city". In English, this is translated as "Ho Chi Minh City"; in French it is translated as "Hô-Chi-Minh-Ville" (the circumflex and hyphens are sometimes omitted). Due to its length,
Ho Chi Minh Thought (the public, the cooperative) from being under the power and influence of the national capitalists, the Party must communicate with the capitalist, intellectual, middle-class". Ho Chi Minh Thought is an ideology that adapts Marxism–Leninism to the specific social, political and economic conditions of the Vietnamese people by Ho Chi Minh, the leader of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. The tenets of Ho Chi Minh Thought are primarily constructed from the political statements and attitudes of Ho Chi Minh. Ho Chi Minh Thought has been identified as a legitimate ideology of the Communist Party of Vietnam alongside Marxism–Leninism, formally launched from