National Press and Arts Conference 2014

(Baonghean.vn) - On August 22, in Cua Lo Town, the 2014 National Press and Arts Conference took place, jointly organized by the Ministry of Information and Communications, the Central Propaganda Department and the Central Council for Literature and Arts Theory and Criticism.

Attending and chairing the Conference were comrades: Nguyen The Ky - Deputy Head of the Central Propaganda Department, Hong Vinh - Chairman of the Central Council for Literature and Arts Theory and Criticism, Hoang Huu Luong - Director of the Press Department - Ministry of Information and Communications. Comrade Dinh Thi Le Thanh - Member of the Provincial Party Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee attended and delivered a welcome speech at the Conference.

Overview of the conference

The report at the Conference stated: Literary and artistic press is an important part of revolutionary press. The whole country currently has over 80 literary and artistic press agencies under the Vietnam Union of Literary and Artistic Associations, Literary and Artistic Associations of provinces and centrally run cities and literary and artistic press of a number of ministries and branches. In 63 provinces and cities across the country, in addition to the literary and artistic press publications of local literary and artistic associations, Party newspapers and radio and television programs have also built specialized pages, columns and topics on literature and art with considerable duration.

The comrades chaired the conference

The press is impacting all aspects of life, in which people are receiving literature and arts mainly through the press. Literary and arts press in particular, by always sticking to the orientation and serving political tasks well, has contributed to the cause of building and defending the Fatherland. By introducing new works to the public, literary and arts press is contributing to nurturing and training literary and artistic talents, especially young artists; contributing to preserving the purity and enriching the Vietnamese language and the languages ​​of Vietnam's ethnic minorities; cultural and arts exchange and discussion programs of newspapers and radio stations have updated, reflected the current situation, praised typical examples and provided lessons on building new cultural content at the grassroots level... in a timely and lively manner.

The report also pointed out the difficulties and shortcomings of current literary and artistic journalism activities, especially local specialized magazines that have not kept up with the trend and have not met the needs of readers. A few newspapers have indulged in negative social information, information that is unverified and arbitrary, creating negative social effects. Content has not received equal attention in terms of both creative writing and critical theory. Operating budget is limited, circulation is low. The human resources of literary and artistic journalism are still lacking and not highly skilled.

Many cultural press agencies, cultural pages of newspapers belonging to socio-political organizations and ministries have not invested properly to create a unique identity for their publications and pages. Cultural and artistic programs broadcast by radio and television stations still contain offensive content, not suitable for the fine arts and cultural traditions of the nation. The cultural and artistic sections of many electronic newspapers still lack direction, leading to the situation of mainly exploiting the private lives of actors, singers, celebrities, etc.

Comrade Dinh Thi Le Thanh - Vice Chairman of Nghe An Provincial People's Committee delivered a welcome speech at the conference.

Delegates attending the Conference

The conference also proposed solutions and directions for the upcoming activities of the literary and artistic press in the context of the current information explosion and complex social interactions; focusing on improving the quality of information in the right direction and healthily, contributing to preserving and developing the good traditional values ​​of Vietnamese culture and people; truthfully and vividly reflecting the life, history of the nation and the country's renovation; encouraging the team of cultural, literary and artistic activists to create many works of valuable ideology and art...

In the discussion, representatives of central and local press and radio agencies focused on raising specific issues in their cultural and artistic information activities in each page, column, and program... In-depth discussion of difficulties as well as requirements to improve the quality and efficiency in building content and organizing literary and artistic information for the press to reach the public in order to create the highest possible positive effect; experience in training and improving the capacity and skills of the press and art team; mentioning the relationship of the press and art to the creative team and artists in general; Focus on the field of theoretical criticism... The conference also highly agreed that the literary and artistic press, in its goal of improving the quality and efficiency of its operations in the coming time in order to provide aesthetic information to the public in the fastest and most timely manner, needs to closely follow the orientation from the implementation of Resolution 9 of the 11th Central Committee on "Building and developing Vietnamese culture and people, meeting the requirements of sustainable national development" and Resolution 23 of the 10th Politburo on "Continuing to build and develop literature and art in the new period".

Video clip of the 2014 National Press and Arts Conference:

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