“Building and developing an advanced Vietnamese culture rich in national identity” is the latest book on the cultural field of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, published by the Central Propaganda Department, Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, National Political Publishing House The Truth jointly launched on June 21, 2024.
The book has 927 pages, a selection of 92 articles, speeches, talks, notes, interviews, letters... of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong on building and developing Vietnamese culture, in The earliest article is from 1968.
And one of the statements - speeches that left the deepest impression on all people, especially those who are working and interested in the cultural field, was the directive speech of General Secretary Nguyen. Phu Trong at the 2021 National Cultural Conference.
At this Conference, General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong made very profound, enthusiastic, and declarative statements, requests, and instructions... in the field of culture such as: "Culture is still a nation. ”!
In particular, the General Secretary requested to overcome the "economic only" ideology, focusing only on the economy and paying little attention to culture. We must seriously grasp the viewpoint that "culture must be placed on par with economics, politics, and society".
Or "soon overcome the situation of patchwork and arbitrariness in the arrangement of officials for cultural work, at both the central and local levels"...
However, there are small local advices that do not appear in the book, but have great lesson value and are guiding principles for cultural workers - like the General Secretary's advice during the trip. visited the Hue Monuments Complex in 2014, recently recounted by Dr. Phan Thanh Hai, Director of the Department of Culture and Sports of Thua Thien Hue Province, former Director of the Hue Monuments Conservation Center at that time.
"It is a treasure trove of typical and extremely valuable cultural and artistic knowledge of the ancients, but we need to learn and understand to be able to promote it well" - General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong advised. people working in heritage management after being introduced to some typical poems on Hue royal architecture.
Notably, after advising the team of people working to preserve Hue's cultural heritage to constantly study and strive to improve their knowledge, General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong also repeatedly emphasized a very good and new idea, whose importance has not been appreciated by many people: "We must always foster love for the nation's priceless heritage."
Because reality shows that learning to understand heritage is easy, many people can do it, but to have love and dedication to heritage is very difficult and not everyone can do it.
And by extension, not only the cultural heritage left by our ancestors, but any area of life, including love between people, must always be fostered!
