Politburo Member, National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man, on behalf of the National Assembly, has just signed and promulgated Resolution No. 28/2026/QH16 on the development of Vietnamese culture.
This Resolution stipulates a number of mechanisms and policies for developing Vietnamese culture.
Including policies on preferential treatment, talent development, and specialized human resources in the field of culture, arts, and sports.
The State has policies prioritizing the development of talents in the fields of culture, arts, and sports through focused and in-depth training at home and abroad.
It is necessary to ensure conditions on facilities, equipment and specialized health care to serve performances, practices, and research in a synchronous and modern direction to meet regional and international standards associated with the goals and tasks of cultural and cultural industry development.
Allowing public non-business units in the fields of culture, arts, and sports to apply a non-exam recruitment mechanism for: Students who are trained and graduated in the country and abroad in the fields of culture, arts, and sports with particularly outstanding professional achievements; or talented athletes and artists who have won medals and awards at national, regional, and international levels.
Officials and employees operating specifically in their professions in public performing arts units and performing arts units under the armed forces are entitled to professional preferential allowances, training and performance allowances according to the roadmap until the new salary regime is implemented as follows:
Professional preferential allowances from 40% to 60% of the current salary plus leadership position allowance and seniority allowance beyond the frame (if any) for officials and employees operating specifically in the profession in traditional performing arts, classical performing arts and circus...
Professional preferential allowances from 20% to 30% of the current salary plus leadership position allowance and seniority allowance exceeding the frame (if any) for public employees and workers operating specifically in the cultural field that are not in the prescribed cases.
The training and performance allowance regime is based on the role and level of participation in activities in the work, program, and performance to determine: training allowance regime from 5% to 15% of the base salary for one practice session; performance allowance regime (preliminary review, general review and performance) from 15% to 30% of the base salary for one performance session.
The State supports funding for retraining officials in the fields of traditional arts, circus, and dance when they are past their professional age to study to change jobs.
Training and fostering high-quality human resources for cultural industries; specialized human resources on innovation, digital transformation, creative digital content about culture; curators, appraisers of cultural, artistic, and cultural heritage works.
Along with that, provincial-level local authorities allocate budgets and mobilize social resources to treat and support artisans and artists to create, practice, and teach culture, folk art, and traditional arts in the locality, in general schools in the area, or participate in promoting Vietnamese culture abroad.
