Vietnam holds great potential for cultural industry development

Vietnam is assessed to boast huge potential and advantages for developing cultural industries, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said while chairing the national conference on developing Vietnam's cultural industries held on December 22 in Hanoi.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh speaks at the event

This is the first conference that holds particularly important significance for the development of Vietnam's cultural industries.

Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha and Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Nguyen Van Hung also co-chaired the event which was connected online to 63 provinces and cities nationwide.

In his opening speech, PM Pham Minh Chinh highlighted Vietnamese culture as the result of thousands of years of creative labor and resilient struggle to build and defend the country of the Vietnamese ethnic community. It also is the result of exchanging and absorbing the essence of many world civilizations to constantly improve ourselves.

​Vietnamese culture has molded the soul, spirit, and bravery of Vietnam, thus brightening the nation's glorious history.

Cultural industries refer to industries that produce artistic and creative products bearing a tangible or intangible nature, through exploiting cultural values and intellectual, socially and culturally meaningful products and services to gain economic benefits.

In the world, cultural industry development is taking place strongly, is a trend and is gradually becoming the important driving force in promoting the socio- economic   development of countries, he went on to say.

The PM said that in recent years, the Party and State have issued and effectively carried out many guidelines, policies and laws to boost cultural development culture and cultural industries.

The strategy for developing Vietnam's cultural industries to 2020, with a vision to 2030, affirms that cultural industries are an important component of the national economy.

The State creates favorable conditions to attract maximum resources from businesses and society to develop cultural industries. The strategy identifies 12 areas of cultural industries, while setting goals of carrying out these fields by 2020 and 2030.

The 13th Party Congress sets out the task of urgently implementing focused development of cultural industries and cultural services on the basis of identifying and promoting the soft power of Vietnamese culture.

PM stated that, with the special attention of the Party and State and the involvement of all levels, sectors and localities, over time, cultural industries have gradually become important service economic sectors.

The investment of capital in cultural industries has promoted the cultural industry market to make new strides, positively contributing to socio-economic development.

However, compared to some other industries, the nation's cultural industries have not yet fully exploited in line with their potential and advantages.

In order for cultural industries to develop quickly and sustainably, thus effectively exploiting its potential and strengths, there needs to be a strong transformation from awareness to action, innovation in thinking, breakthroughs in working methods towards building Vietnam's cultural industry, Chinh emphasized.

He underlined the need to discuss, evaluate and thoroughly analyze the results achieved, shortcomings and limitations in the development of cultural industries over the past time in order to pinpoint causes and lessons learned.

In addition, the PM asked the participants to propose specific, feasible and breakthrough solutions, clearly outline roadmaps to overcome current shortcomings, especially in terms of mechanisms and policies aimed at attracting social resources for the development of cultrual industries.

It is essential to strengthen links and coordination between ministries, branches and localities in effectively protecting and enforcing intellectual property rights as well as adopting policies on encouraging and creating favorable conditions for infrastructure development coupled with technological application, capital investment and digital transformation, Chinh continued.

He also underscored the necessary of building a cultural industry development strategy for the new period with a long-term vision and more synchronous solutions.

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