(VOVWORLD) - Over the past few years, the Vietnamese Party and State have paid much attention to building an advanced culture embracing strong national identity. 2021 marked an important milestone in Vietnam’s development with the 13th National Party Congress identifying major orientations for the coming years focusing on the role of culture. The National Culture Conference on Wednesday was a step in enhancing culture development in the 2021-2025 period.
 The National Culture Conference is held on November 24, 2021 (photo: VGP) |
The Resolution of the 5th Plenum of the 13th Party Central Committee says “Vietnamese culture is the accumulation of thousands of years of creatively working and bravely struggling for national construction and defense of Vietnamese ethnic groups and the result of exchanging and inheriting the quintessence of world civilization to perfect itself. Vietnamese culture has enhanced the Vietnamese soul and strength and glorified Vietnamese history.
Throughout the process of building and developing Vietnamese culture, Vietnam has focused on promoting traditional values, screening and eliminating backward customs, and adopting the cultural essence of the world’s culture and civilization in order to comprehensively develop Vietnamese people with sincerity, honesty, and aesthetics, a beautiful lifestyle, and good personality. Absorbing the national spirit of patriotism, self-reliance, and kindness, generations of Vietnamese people have stayed united to overcome difficulties and challenges and build a better life.
In order to build an advanced culture embracing national identity, Vietnam has harmonized economic and cultural issues while focusing on culture and human factors. As a result, culture has become a firm foundation of society and the resources for national development.
Promoting Vietnamese cultural values is one of the key tasks of the Vietnamese Party, State, and public. It has become more important in the context of globalization, international integration, and the strong influence of new media which have made the world a global village. Failing to maintain national identity will make the country diluted in a vast world and push it to the verge of getting lost because losing culture means losing everything. Countries that focus on promoting their national cultural identity create their own uniqueness and competitive edge in sustainable development.
The soft power of culture was for the first time mentioned in the 13th National Party Congress’s document, which maps out a major direction to comprehensively develop people and build an advanced Vietnamese culture embracing national identity to make culture an internal strength and motivation for national construction and defense.
To make culture and people the country’s internal resources, the National Culture Conference is an important step to map out major orientations and key tasks for cultural development in the 2021-2025 period and vision toward 2045.
Being as important as politics, economics, and social issues, culture has been and will be one of the key drivers for national development in the coming time. The conference will discuss ways to effectively and practically preserve and properly exploit cultural resources and make culture a new driver for sustainable development and international integration.
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