INTRODUCTION

 

Central Office for South Vietnam Base Special National Historical Relic: is the historical relic of special national relic ranking according to Decision No. 548/QD-TTg dated 10/5/2012 by the Prime Minister and consists of: Central Office for South Vietnam Relic, South Vietnam Liberation Front Relic, Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam relic.

The relic is located at Rum Duon, Tan Tien hamlet, Tan Lap commune, Tan Bien district, Tay Ninh Province and about 60 km away from Tay Ninh City. The relic was restored with the simple and beautiful thatched houses mixed in the green colour of forest and climbers. The Central Office for South Vietnam is the nerve-centre agency which directly led the South Vietnam Revolution from the first days of the resistance war against the United States to save the country and unify the country. Under the leadership of the Central Party Committee, Central Office for South Vietnam set up the strategies and applied creatively the South Vietnam revolutionary directions to defeat all war strategies of the United States and liberate totally the South Vietnam to unify the country.

Located at Bay Bau hamlet, Tan Lap commune, Tay Bien district, about 50 km away from Tay Ninh city to the North. For 15 years of the wars, Security Board of the Central Office for South Vietnam had completed successfully the mission of ensuring the absolute security for the nerve-centre organizations of the South Vietnam revolution. On 23/12/1995, the Relic was ranked by Ministry of Culture and Information as a national relic at Decision No. 3777/QD-BT.

Located at Tua Hai hamlet, Dong Khoi commune, Chau Thanh district, Tay Ninh province on Road 22B, it is about 7 km away from Tay Ninh city to the Northwest. Tua Hai is the name of a watch tower in French time and then the United states and puppet regime continued to built a big strategic military base here. In 1960, Tua Hai was a stand by weapon warehouse for 3 strategic zones of the Puppet Regime. At this place, there were Regiment 32 under Division 13 of the Puppet Regime, a ranger training school, a standing battalion and 2 spy companies operated within the community. In the evening 25th and early morning 26th of January 1960, the troops and people of Tay Ninh joined the army forces of the South Vietnam secretly approached and attacked suddenly the headquarters of the enemy in Tua Hai. This was the battle to open for Army Dong Khoi Movement throughout South Vietnam.

1. Soil Resource

Tay Ninh has 4 main soil groups: gray soil, alum soil, alluvial soil and yellow - red soil.

- Grey soil group (including 6 types) has the area of 339,833 ha, accounting for about 84.37% of the natural area and distributed on the entire province. This soil type consists of light chemical properties, easy-drainage and suitable with many kinds of trees.

- Alum soil group (including 3 types) has the total area of 25,359 ha, accounting for 6.3% of natural area, mainly distributed in districts of Chau Thanh, Go Dau, Trang Bang.

- Yellow-red soil group (3 types) accounts for a small percentage, of about 1.6% of the natural area and mainly distributed in districts of Tan Bien and Tan Chau. This soil type can be used for forestry development.

- Alluvial soil group (2 types) accounts for 0.44% of natural area and formed due to the alluvial from rivers therefore, it is very suitable for planting rice and crops.

- Regarding the land use purposes:

+   Area of agricultural land: 346,378.6 ha;

+   Area of non-agricultural land: 57,040.9 ha;

+   Area of unused land (Including unused delta land, unused hill and mountain land, stone mountain without tree forest): 705.8 ha.

2. Water Resources

2.1. Water Surface: In Tay Ninh province, surface water is mainly from rivers, streams, channels, ditches and Dau Tieng Tay Ninh lake.

- Tay Ninh has the topography stretching to North - South direction with two main rivers of Vam Co Dong river and Sai Gon river.

- Small rivers and streams started from the province have the features of: in rainy season, water level in rivers and streams raises high and it plays the important role in supplying water for underwater. In dry season, it drains locally. Small rivers and streams maintain their flows all year round thanks to the groundwater regulating.

Therefore, the surface water reserves in Tay Ninh is very big and able to supply water for irrigation, transportation of goods by waterway and this is also a strength for economic development of Tay Ninh province.

2.2. Underground water: it exists two main forms: holes in Cenozoic sediments and cracks in Cenozoic formation and Cenozoic basalt eruption.

- Water in holes: existed in Cenozoic sediments with large distribution area and accounting for a large area of the region. The sediments are only interrupted by the remaining mountains in Ba Den, Trai Bi and partially in the Northeast. The average thickness is 100 - 150 m. The thickness increases gradually from the Northeast to Southwest and the maximum thickness reaches 300 - 320 m.

- Water in cracks: Water is in Cenozoic formation and Cenozoic basalt eruption and distributed in the North, Northeast and the remaining in the South and Southwest is covered with the thick Cenozoic sediment. Due to the poor cracking degree and being filled, this form of existence is generally poor in water and is not meangingful for water supply.

Therefore, underground water in Tay Ninh province is widely distributed and only interrupted by the remaining mountains of Ba Den, Trai Bi and a part in the Northeast. In general, the groundwater reserves is plentiful, especially in dry season, water reserves is still ensured with good quality to serve for domestic, agricultural production and industrial production demands.

3. Mineral natural resources

3.1. Peat

The whole province has 8 regions planned for peat exploitation with the total area of 529.98 ha, distributed mainly on two banks of Vam Co Dong river.

The planned peat reserves up to 2020: 3,912,580 m³.

3.2. Tile and brick clay

The whole province has 13 areas planned for tile and brick clay exploitation with the total planning area of 346 ha, mainly concentrated in districts of Tan Chau, Tan Bien, Chau Thanh, Ben Cau, Duong Minh Chau

The planned tile and brick clay reserves up to 2020: 12,424,871 m³.

3.3. Construction stone

There are construction stone planning areas in Loc Trung (12.69 ha), Mo Cong (30 ha) and Doi 95 (77.5 ha) with the total reserves of more than 15 million m³.

3.4.Construction sand

Including the sand locations along Vam Co Dong River, Sai gon River, Dau Tieng Lake and stream branches dumping to Dau Tieng Lake. In addition, there are Loc Trung sand mines (Duong Minh Chau District) put into reserves planning after 2020.

The planned construction sand reserves up to 2020: 20,280,083 m³.

3.5.Backfilling material (backfilling soil)

Backfilling material minerals (gravel, backfilling soil) are planned throughout the districts of the province and exploited to have special contribution to economic-social development of the province.

The planned backfilling material reserves up to 2020: 87,097,002 m³.

3.6. Limestone

Tay Ninh has the redundant reserves of limestone with good quality for producing cement which cannot be found in many other provinces/cities. In particular:

+ Limestone for cement production: 3 mines, the reserves B + C₁ + C₂: 69.36 million tons: resource P: 121.77 million tons (from the elevation of - 50 m, it is forecasted to have 805,632 million tons).

+ Cement clay: 05 mines, the reserves B + C₁ + C₂: 16.5 million tons; P: 67.13 million tons.

+ Cement additive: 6 mines, the forecasted reserves of 24.6 million tons.

+ Kaolin: 10 mines, the forecasted reserves of 20.43 million tons.

The redundant reserves of limestone mentioned above has been exploited by Tay Ninh Cement Factory to produce such products as: Multi-purpose Fico cement PCB40, PCB50 etc. to supply for the domestic markets and export to the countries in the region.