Visitors queue to enter the Mausoleum to pay tribute to President Ho Chi Minh. (Photo: Anh Tuan/VNA)

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said Sunday that the long-term preservation of President Ho Chi Minh’s body and the promotion of the mausoleum’s political and cultural values, is a special task of great importance to maintaining a socialist Vietnam.

Since its inauguration in 1975, the mausoleum has received more than 60 million visitors, including 10 million foreigners from almost every country in the world.