Illustrative image (Source: baovanhoa.vn) The conclusion clarified that cultural industries refer toindustries that produce artistic and creative products with tangible orintangible nature through exploiting cultural values and intellectual productsand services with social and cultural significance to generate economic benefits.
It highlighted the Party and State’s policies, orientationsand laws aiming to promote the development of cultural industries, as well asthe effective investment of capital in the industries.
However, compared to other sectors, the development of Vietnam’s culturalindustries has yet to match the distinct potential, outstanding opportunities,and competitive advantages of the country, it said, underlining a number ofdifficulties and challenges in the work, including the unclear role,responsibility and authority of State management in a number of areas.
The conclusion sketched out a number of fundamental viewpoints in thedevelopment of cultural industries, including associating the process with thespreading of the image of Vietnam and its people as well aspreserving and promoting the national cultural identity, meeting the creative,characteristic, professional, healthy, competitive and sustainabilityrequirements, generally creating national trademarks for Vietnam’s culturalproducts and services to join global value chains.
In the conclusion, the PM stressed the need to implementtasks and solutions in a synchronous, drastic and consistent manner withcertain focal points, focusing on realising breakthrough policies to transform potentialcultural resources into products and services with high competitiveness.
The Government leader called for stronger determination and efforts as well asmore drastic and effective actions in the work, thus encouraging creativity,respecting the freedom to creativity, and increasing the cultural industries’contributions to the country’s GDP by 2030.
The PM asked the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism tocoordinat with relevant agencies, organisations and localities to build adraft directive of the PM on developing Vietnam’s cultural industries andsubmit the draft document to the authorised agency for approval in 2024./.
VNA
