The mountainous region of Vietnam accounts for three-quarters of the country's total area, is a place with a very important position in politics, foreign affairs, national defense, “a place contiguous with neighboring countries”... During his lifetime, President President Ho Chi Minh has deeply concerned about the prosperous, happy and progressive life of the compatriots, especially training and fostering ethnic minority cadres. He gave strategic instructions on building a contingent of ethnic minority cadres with the aim of “making the ethnic groups gradually manage all their affairs by themselves”. The article clarifies Ho Chi Minh's thought on training ethnic minority cadres and their application to the process of building ethnic minority cadres in the mountainous districts of Nghe An meet the country's renovation requirements.