Finding solutions to promote the development of Vietnam's cultural industries

​(News Portal – Dong Nai) - On the morning of December 22, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired a national conference on developing Vietnam's cultural industry. This is the first conference that holds a particularly important meaning in the development of Vietnam's cultural industry.  ​

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh delivered a concluding speech at the conference 

Attending the conference were Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha; representatives of leaders of relevant ministries, departments and sectors; leaders of associations, unions, and organizations; representative of UNESCO Office in Vietnam; leaders of provinces and municipalities; as well as leaders of organizations, businesses, and agencies operating in fields related to the cultural fields...

Representing Dong Nai province in the online conference were comrade Vo Tan Duc, Member of the Standing Committee, Acting Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee and representatives of provincial departments and branches attended the conference.

Implementing the strategy for developing cultural industries to 2020, with a vision to 2030, shows that the Party and State have issued and effectively implemented many guidelines, directions, policies and laws to develop cultural development and cultural industry. Cultural industry gradually becomes an important service economic sectors. The investment of capital in cultural industry has promoted the cultural industry market to make new strides, positively contributing to socio-economic development...

However, the development of cultural industry still has many shortcomings and challenges, such as: there is no specific, appropriate legal framework or policy mechanism to develop cultural industry; investment resources are still few and far between; the content and form of products and services of the cultural industry have not focused on exploiting traditional values and indigenous culture; copyright infringement...

At the conference, representatives of organizations, businesses, and agencies operating in fields related to cultural industry, as well as relevant ministries and departments have focused on evaluating and analyzing the achievements and limitations in the development of culture and cultural industry; causes and lessons learned; and solutions to promote the development of Vietnam's cultural industry in the future.

At the conference, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh assigned the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism to preside over and coordinate with the Government Office to receive opinions and promptly compile them to submit documents for promulgation after the conference to create changes in terms of awareness, perception and action, creating specific products and results in developing the cultural industry.

The Prime Minister also pointed out important political foundations for developing the cultural industry...; opportunities and challenges posed to the development of cultural industry. At the same time, the Prime Minister also raised key perspectives, tasks and solutions for developing cultural industry.

Accordingly, the general spirit that the Prime Minister raised was that all levels, departments, localities, agencies and organizations need greater determination, greater efforts, more drastic, effective, focusing on specific goals; proactively, closely coordinate, and focus on implementing tasks and solutions to strongly develop cultural industry, encourage all exploration and creativity, and respect creative freedom; focus on industries with a lot of potential and advantages (such as cinema, performing arts, cultural tourism, handicrafts, design, software and entertainment games), so that by 2030 the added value of cultural industry accounts for a majority of the national's GDP. ​

Delegates attended the online conference at the Provincial People's Committee office 

In addition to pointing out the tasks of each industry and each field, the Prime Minister also requested the People's Committees of provinces and municipalities to base on the actual situation to build and promulgate mechanisms and policies to attract investment and arrange land banks and infrastructure for the cultural industry. Promoting regional and local linkages in developing, exploiting and trading cultural industry products and services, building signature local cultural industry products and services associated with cultural industry products and services with tourism and promote the development of the night-time economy. Increasing propaganda, cultural promotion, cultural industry... activities. ​