Advanced culture spurs all-sided development

The culture sector and other agencies should make the best of advantages and positive sides of the market economy in building an advanced culture deeply imbued with the national identity and traditions, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has said.
The culture sector and other agencies should make the best of advantagesand positive sides of the market economy in building an advancedculture deeply imbued with the national identity and traditions, PrimeMinister Nguyen Tan Dung has said.

He was speakingat a meeting in Hanoi on August 8 to review 15 years of theimplementation of a Resolution of the Communist Party of Vietnam CentralCommittee, eighth tenure, on building and developing an advancedVietnamese culture advanced with national identity.

Theoretical issues and practicality emerging from the implementation ofthe Resolution have touched upon the need to highlight the obvious roleof culture in sustainable economic development.

“Culture provides a spiritual foundation for society, being a target anda driving force to spur the country’s all-sided development,” PM Dungsaid.

The Party and State have always given dueattention to cultural development, identifying it an important front inthe ideological field contributing vastly to the triumph of the nation’srevolutionary cause, he affirmed.

TheResolution demonstrates the Party’s strategic vision and revolutionarythinking in the renewal process, PM Dung said, making clear that itgives high evaluation to the role of culture in the country’s politicaland socio-economic development as well as intellectual life in theprocess of modernisation and industrialisation.

Therefore, the task of building an advanced culture with nationalidentity will be heavy in the coming time, the Government leaderemphasised.

In order not to lose the nationalidentity when integrating deeply into the world arena, the culture,sport and tourism sector should continue to grasp thoroughly the Partyand State’s policy and guidelines on culture and implement the “CultureDevelopment Strategy from now to 2020”, the PM requested.

Action plans should be built towards making the full use of theworld’s cutting-edge communication technologies and culturalquintessences possessed by the human kind and the nation should beabsorbed and merged, the PM said.

He also asked the culture sector to further improve its State management role in all aspects of the cultural life.

Reports delivered at the meeting looked at the issues of buildingVietnamese people in a new period, developing a cultural environment,preserving and promoting the values of cultural heritages and culturesof ethnic minorities, implementing cultural policy on belief andreligions, and expanding cultural cooperation among others in thereviewed time.-VNA

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