Nearly 6,900 delegates in Nghe An attend the online National Cultural Conference

On the morning of November 24, the Politburo and the Central Party Secretariat held a national cultural conference to implement the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress. The conference lasted for one day.

Party and State leaders presided at Dien Hong Hall, National Assembly. Photo: dangcongsan.vn

At the main bridge point of Dien Hong Hall, National Assembly House, General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong attended and directed the Conference; Politburo members: Nguyen Xuan Phuc - President; Vuong Dinh Hue - Chairman of the National Assembly; Vo Van Thuong - Permanent member of the Party Central Committee Secretariat; and delegates who are leaders and former leaders of the Party and State; departments, ministries, branches, the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front, socio-political organizations;...

The conference was connected online to 63 provinces, cities and district and commune-level bridges. At the Nghe An province bridge, there were the following comrades attending: Thai Thanh Quy - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; Nguyen Van Thong - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee; Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; comrades of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, members of the Provincial Party Executive Committee, leaders of departments, branches, sectors, provincial-level organizations, the Nghe An Literature and Arts Association, the Nghe An Union of Science and Technology Associations, intellectuals and artists.

The conference was also connected online to 26 district-level (equivalent) points and 364 grassroots-level points with nearly 6,900 delegates attending in Nghe An province.

DEVELOPING VIETNAMESE CULTURE AND PEOPLE

Panorama of the conference at the main bridge of Nghe An province. Photo: Thanh Duy

The conference aims to evaluate the implementation of the Party's guidelines, policies, resolutions, directives and conclusions on cultural and artistic work in recent times; the results of building Vietnamese culture and people after 35 years of carrying out the country's renovation; and deploy viewpoints, policies, tasks and solutions to build and develop Vietnamese culture and people according to the Resolution of the 13th National Congress of the Party.

It can be said that cultural development is one of the key issues and outstanding content in the documents of the 13th National Party Congress. This is the first time in the documents of the Party Congress that our Party has comprehensively and deeply mentioned the cultural field, from the Congress theme to the viewpoints, goals, major orientations, key tasks, and strategic breakthroughs.

The conference is also a forum to listen and an opportunity to encourage and motivate cultural workers, intellectuals and artists to continue to promote the spirit of solidarity and unity in will and action; to unite forces working in culture and arts at home and abroad to form a united front, devoting all their efforts to serving the Fatherland and the People; to arouse the aspiration to develop a prosperous and happy country; to promote the will and strength of great national solidarity, combined with the strength of the times, to successfully implement the Resolution of the 13th National Congress of the Party.

Delegates attending the conference at the main bridge in Nghe An province. Photo: Thanh Duy

The conference listened to Comrade Nguyen Trong Nghia - Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Head of the Central Propaganda Department present a summary report on "Inheriting and promoting national cultural traditions; Building and developing culture after 35 years of carrying out the country's renovation; Main orientations and solutions to develop Vietnamese culture and people in the spirit of the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress".

Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Nguyen Van Hung, representatives of leaders of Hanoi, Thua Thien Hue, An Giang, and intellectuals, scientists, and artists presented papers. Leaders of several localities, intellectuals, scientists, and artists also presented papers at the conference.

CULTURE MUST BE PLACED ON EQUAL RANGE WITH ECONOMY, POLITICS, AND SOCIETY

Speaking at the conference, General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong affirmed: Our Party's awareness of building and developing culture in the renovation period has been gradually supplemented, developed and increasingly perfected comprehensively and deeply. This is a very basic premise for us to thoroughly grasp and deploy implementation in practice.

Looking back at the achievements in the field of building and developing Vietnamese culture under the leadership of the Party, especially in the recent 35 years of renovation, we have the right to be proud of the great contributions of culture to the cause of national salvation and construction.

General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong delivers a speech at the conference. Photo: VNA

On behalf of the Party and State leaders, General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong warmly welcomed, congratulated, commended and thanked the great contributions of the entire Party, the entire people, all cadres and Party members, and especially the intellectuals, artists and forces participating in the cultural front in the recent past.

However, in addition to the achievements, the General Secretary also pointed out the need to look directly at the limitations, shortcomings, and weaknesses in the cultural field to find causes and solutions to overcome them.

In particular, according to the General Secretary, the outstanding limitation and weakness is that culture has not been deeply recognized by all levels and sectors and has not received adequate attention, commensurate with economics and politics; it has not truly become an endogenous driving force for the country's sustainable development.

The role of culture has not been properly defined, and still tends to focus on entertainment; while this is also a channel with the function of educating people, improving political qualities, ethics, and lifestyle;...

Delegates attending the conference at the main bridge in Nghe An province. Photo: Thanh Duy

On that basis, to continue building, preserving, reviving and developing the nation's culture, the General Secretary suggested focusing on implementing a number of key tasks well.

First of all, it is necessary to more strongly arouse the spirit of patriotism, self-reliance; the spirit of solidarity, the aspiration to develop a prosperous and happy country of the entire nation; to highly promote the cultural values, strength and spirit of dedication of all Vietnamese people, to create endogenous resources and breakthrough motivation to successfully implement the country's development goals to 2025, 2030, with a vision to 2045 set forth by the 13th National Party Congress.

Delegates attending the conference at the main bridge in Nghe An province. Photo: Thanh Duy

Building Vietnamese people in the period of innovation, development and integration with standard and appropriate values, associated with preserving and promoting Vietnamese family values, cultural values, and national values; skillfully combining traditional values ​​with modern values: Solidarity, self-reliance, loyalty, honesty, responsibility, discipline and creativity.

“Those values ​​are nurtured by Vietnamese family culture with core values: Prosperity, happiness, progress, civilization; nurtured and developed by advanced Vietnamese culture, imbued with national identity with the value system: Nation, democracy, humanity, science; on the foundation of the national value system and also the noble goal of the nation: Peace, unity, independence, rich people, strong country, democratic society, equality, civilization, happiness”.

General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong

The General Secretary also set out the requirement to comprehensively and synchronously develop the cultural fields, cultural environment, and cultural life; preserve and promote traditional cultural values; absorb the cultural quintessence of humanity; improve quality, efficiency, creativity, and build a healthy and civilized cultural environment; closely linked to the uncompromising fight against evil, unculture, and counterculture; protect the values ​​of truth, goodness, and beauty; improve the cultural life of the people, build a joyful, healthy, and happy cultural life; overcome the gap in the level of development and cultural enjoyment between regions of the country.

Promote the role of the people as creative subjects and cultural beneficiaries; promote the pioneering role of intellectuals, artists, and cultural workers.

Delegates attending the conference at the main bridge in Nghe An province. Photo: Thanh Duy

General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong also noted the need to focus on building the Party and the political system in terms of culture and ethics; resolutely fight against corruption and negativity so that our Party and the political system of our country are truly ethical and civilized, representing the conscience and dignity of the Vietnamese people; build culture in leadership and management; promote the exemplary role of cadres and Party members, especially strategic-level cadres and leaders following the ideology, ethics and cultural style of President Ho Chi Minh; enhance the role and leadership capacity of the Party, the management effectiveness of the State, and the active participation of the Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations in the cause of cultural development.

Building a digital cultural environment suitable for the digital economy, digital society and digital citizens; adapting culture to and regulating the country's sustainable development in the context of the 4th industrial revolution; urgently developing cultural industries and building a healthy cultural market.

To revive and develop Vietnamese culture and people in the above directions, General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong also emphasized a number of tasks in the coming time.

Delegates attending the conference at the main bridge in Nghe An province. Photo: Thanh Duy

In particular, it is necessary to continue to improve the awareness and leadership capacity of the Party and the State's management in the cultural field; continue to innovate the Party's leadership methods and the State's management to ensure unity of thought and action in building and developing culture from the central to grassroots levels.

Party committees and authorities at all levels must deeply understand and fully grasp the Party's viewpoints and guiding thoughts on culture; on that basis, develop programs and implementation plans, and mobilize maximum resources to develop culture; overcome the "economic only" ideology, focusing only on the economy and paying little attention to culture; must seriously grasp the viewpoint: Culture must be placed on par with economics, politics, and society.

Delegates at the main bridge in Nghe An province followed the speech of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong at the conference. Photo: Thanh Duy

State management also needs to promptly overcome the slow institutionalization of the Party's guidelines, viewpoints, and policies into laws and specific, feasible policies on cultural development and human development; promote the reorganization of the cultural management apparatus from the central to grassroots levels; develop and promulgate appropriate mechanisms and policies, paying attention to the specificity of cultural and artistic activities; reasonably increase investment from the State budget; and at the same time, unleash social resources, domestic and foreign resources for cultural development.

In the process of diversifying cultural activities, the State needs to focus on investing in the mainstream of revolutionary culture to serve as the core and lead the main inspiration in nurturing pure and healthy thoughts, souls, and emotions, contributing to building the spiritual foundation of society;...