Vũ Quốc Uy

To the Party and people of Haiphong city, Vũ Quốc Uy prided on living and working 'in new hometown with heroic features'. With a confidentiality of an artist official, Vũ Quốc Uy wrote his reminiscences such as 'I came back to Haiphong in the general uprising', 'Acting under the light of cultural platform' and 'Hard days in Deo Voi', ... On the occasion of 30th anniversary of liberation of Haiphong (May 13, 1955 May 13, 1985), Vũ Quốc Uy wrote a volume of book named 'Sunrise on Cam River' to recall 500 days of Haiphong from uprising to struggling against the French colonialists (August 1945 – July 1954) and with a task of writing on sea port land such as 'nop lan Dang liem cuoi cung cho Dang bo Haiphong'. On November 19, 1994, Vũ Quốc Uy died in regret of his comrades and people of Haiphong city where he considered as his hometown with heroic features.

In April 1945, he escaped from house arrest and intended to go to the liberation area in Viet Bac but was reassigned to Haiphong.

After participation in an uprising in Hanoi, Vũ Quốc Uy was once again assigned to Haiphong and gathered the forced and raised in army to seize power on August 23, 1945. As a title of a chairman of Interim Revolutionary people's committee of Haiphong, Vũ Quốc Uy declared that the old authority was overthrown and then established the Interim revolutionary people's committee of Haiphong.

Actively acting in the field of culture and art, Vũ Quốc Uy was suddenly arrested and put under house arrest by the French in 1944.

Vũ Quốc Uy (1920–1994) was a Vietnamese writer and cultural politician.