Officials cut ribbon to open the photo exhibition (Photo: VNA) Speaking at the opening ceremony, Deputy Minister of Culture,Sports and Tourism Ta Quang Dong said that with 80 photos displayed, theexhibition is divided into two parts.
The first part comprises documentary photos, mostly blackand white, taken and archived since 1945, including those of the full text of the document published on the first issue of Tien Phong magazine in November 1945, the first national conference on culture in 1946, and Party and State leaders attending cultural and artistic events.
The second features photos of Vietnam’s achievements in preserving and promoting heritage valuesand cultural identities, together with a number of prominent cultural andartistic activities in recent years.
Nguyen Trong Nghia, Secretary of the Party Central Committee and Chairman of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for Information and Education (C) and delegates visit the exhibition (Photo: VNA) It will be moved to the Hanoi Opera House onFebruary 28.
In 1943, by applying Marxism and the guidelines of the Partyand leader Nguyen Ai Quoc, Party General Secretary Truong Chinh wrote theOutline on Vietnamese Culture (also known as the 1943 Outline on Culture), stressingthat the content, nature, organisation and development orientation of acultural revolution can only be associated with the national liberationrevolution and a cultural revolution can be realised when the politicalrevolution has succeeded.
The three principles of “nationalisation”, “popularisation”,and “scientification” stated in the document have kept their value over time,guiding the development of the national culture./.
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