Expecting the transformation and strong rise of the artist team
On the afternoon of December 30 in Hanoi, General Secretary To Lam and Party and State leaders attended a conference to meet with artists and representatives.
Also attending the Conference were Politburo members: Standing member of the Secretariat, Chairman of the Central Inspection Commission Tran Cam Tu; Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Head of the Central Organization Commission Le Minh Hung; Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Head of the Central Propaganda Commission Nguyen Trong Nghia; Director of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics, Chairman of the Central Theoretical Council Nguyen Xuan Thang. Also attending were leaders, former leaders of central departments, ministries and branches and the participation of 200 artists.
Speaking at the meeting, on behalf of the Party and State leaders, General Secretary To Lam expressed deep gratitude and warmly congratulated and commended the achievements in literary and artistic activities of the artists over the past nearly 80 years.
In addition to the achievements, the General Secretary also frankly pointed out the shortcomings and limitations of literature and art in recent times; suggesting important solutions to promote the development of literature and art more strongly, with more great achievements in the following years.
The General Secretary emphasized that our country is standing at the door of history to enter a new era, an era of development, prosperity and growth. The Party, the State and the people expect and believe in the transformation, strong growth and positive contributions of the artists in the new revolutionary period.
The General Secretary proposed to strongly increase the contribution and dedication of artists in implementing the strategic goals of 100 years under the Party's leadership and 100 years of the country's founding.
The team of artists strives to create a new collection of timeless, useful works that vividly reflect the reality of the new revolutionary period; illuminate the way, illuminate life, have the power to move emotions, call on the entire people and the entire army to implement the Party's policies; arouse and gather the people's hearts, multiply the people's strength, together with the entire Party, the entire people and the entire army, create an invincible strength to bring the Vietnamese revolutionary cause to new heights; actively contribute to building human civilization.
Conquering new heights in artistic creation
The General Secretary requested to build a team of artists who are truly steadfast revolutionary soldiers on the Party's cultural and ideological front. Artists must constantly follow the rhythm of life and the breath of the people, integrate with the country, dare to go into thorny, complicated, sensitive issues of the community, go to remote, disadvantaged areas, ethnic minority areas, border areas, islands, discover and reflect new factors, good practices, new issues arising in life, actively and responsibly participate in social tasks. The life experience of artists must reach out to all regions of the Fatherland, must beat with the heartbeat of the Fatherland.
Regarding works, they must have identity, high socialist ideological and artistic values; reflect the soul, style, and character; arouse national spirit and pride, great and strong things of people and predict the future; have the ability to spread socialist ethics, be beneficial to the public, and create cultural strength to help the nation survive.
Art must be simple and have soul, spirit, easy to understand, easy to absorb, easy to absorb, at the same time must be good, special, unique, attractive, widespread and convincing to the masses; both promoting the traditional cultural values of the nation such as patriotism, profound humanity, rich in national identity, and being a true mirror reflecting the vivid reality of the breakthrough and rise of the country and the nation in the new era.
According to the General Secretary, our country is entering a new stage of development, with determination, new spirit, belief and aspiration for a strong Vietnam, with great expectations for contributions from political power to create literature and art and a team of artists.
The General Secretary affirmed that the Party, State and people believe that, by promoting the glorious tradition, the country's artists will certainly achieve new achievements, conquer new heights in artistic creation, constantly foster and build an advanced Vietnamese culture imbued with national identity, creating endogenous strength for the country's development and actively contributing to the development of human civilization.
