Permanent Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Le Hai Binh - Head of the Organizing Committee of the 3rd National Press Award "For the cause of developing Vietnamese culture" has just signed Decision No. 2513/QD-BTCGBC dated July 21, 2025 promulgating the Regulations of the Award.
Accordingly, the 3rd National Press Award "For the cause of developing Vietnamese culture" (hereinafter referred to as the Award) is organized by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism to select and award awards to authors or groups of authors with excellent journalism works on culture, information, family, sports and tourism published and broadcast by central and local press agencies within the prescribed time; award awards to outstanding press agencies with many participating works that won awards.
The award aims to recognize and honor the outstanding contributions of collectives and individuals of journalists to the development of Vietnamese culture.
Through the Award, it aims to inform and introduce the results and achievements of cultural work, information, family, sports and tourism. At the same time, discovered typical advanced examples in the fields of culture, information, family, sports and tourism; encouraged and motivated cadres in the whole industry to join hands and continue to contribute more to the development of Vietnamese culture.
At the same time, it creates conditions for journalists to exchange professional and technical experiences, contributing to improving the quality and efficiency of information and journalism activities in the fields of culture, information, family, sports and tourism.
Contents of the entries
The award is selected and awarded to authors or groups of authors, excellent journalism works, reflecting on real people, real things, being discoverable, accurately and promptly reflecting on collectives, individuals, positive actions, advanced models, criticizing bad habits and bad deeds in society... with one of the key contents:
The implementation of the 13th National Party Congress Documents has been put into practice, Party Congresses at all levels are moving towards the 14th National Congress of the Party; realizing the Directives and Resolutions of the Central Committee and Party committees at all levels; the role and importance of culture in the cause of socio-economic development of the country.
The directives of the Party and State leaders are associated with the innovation and efforts of the Culture, Information, Sports and Tourism sectors, accelerating, breaking through, and steadily entering the era of national growth with the whole country.
Major anniversaries, holidays, key events of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, cultural events, information, family, physical education, sports and tourism are popular all over the country.
The work of building and perfecting institutions, mechanisms and policies in the direction of "creating" and "unblocking" resources for developing culture, sports and tourism, especially the Comprehensive Program for Vietnamese Cultural Development for the period 2023 - 2025; National Target Program on Cultural Development for the period 2025 - 2035; Planning of the network of cultural and sports facilities and Tourism system for the period 2021-2030, vision to 2045; Strategy for developing physical education and sports in Vietnam to 2030, vision to 2045; Strategy for developing Vietnamese families to 2030; Law on Cultural Heritage (amended).
Building Vietnamese people in the period of innovation and development, associating with appropriate standard values, associated with preserving and promoting Vietnamese family values, cultural values, national and ethnic values; blending traditional values with contemporary values: patriotism, solidarity, self-reliance, affection, honesty, responsibility, discipline, creativity.
Comprehensive and synchronous development of the fields of culture, cultural environment, and cultural life: Preserving and promoting traditional cultural values, absorbing the quintessence of human culture, while improving the quality and creativity of new cultural values. Build a healthy and civilized cultural environment associated with the uncompromising struggle against evil, evil, uncultured, and anti-cultural; protect true - equal - beautiful values. Improve people's cultural life; build a joyful, healthy and happy cultural life; overcome the gap in the development and cultural enjoyment among regions and areas of the country.
Promote the role of creative subjects and cultural beneficiaries as the people; respect and protect the diverse expression of culture, of people, ethnic groups, regions and areas; develop profound and substantial cultural movements; improve conditions, enhance the level of cultural beneficiaries of the people, ensure fairness. Highly promote the pioneering role of intellectuals, artists, and those working in cultural work.
Strategy for developing cultural industries until 2030, vision to 2045; exploiting and enforcing copyrights in cyberspace; Promoting the development and implementation of the application of artificial intelligence in the development of digital culture; Digital transformation of the Culture, Information, Sports and Tourism sectors and achievements of digital transformation in sync with the contents and tasks of digital transformation of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
Protection, management and promotion of cultural heritage values in the fields of: museums, private heritages, relics and intangible cultural heritages; the role of cultural heritage - a resource for economic and social development. Preserving and promoting the good traditional cultural values of Vietnamese people.
Promote the development of a reading culture in the community, family, school and society; communicate about digital transformation in literature to form a modern literature network, improve the working capacity of literature, provide new literary services to meet the needs of users, contribute to improving literacy, building a learning society".
Journalism is responsible for spreading the message about the era of national growth; digital transformation of journalism; celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Vietnam Revolutionary Press Day (1925-2025).
Build a healthy cultural environment in cyberspace, arouse a sense of responsibility and national pride to gradually eliminate negative expressions, prevent obstacles, repel "standard" phenomena, and direct people to beauty. Solutions to monitor and handle bad information; solutions to prevent and combat the propaganda of obscene cultural products in cyberspace; improve awareness, skills in mastering information and technical tools and methods for people when participating in cultural activities in cyberspace.
Spreading the value of books and reading culture; the importance of books and reading culture in improving knowledge and skills, developing thinking, creativity, and fostering Vietnamese personality and people.
Achievements as well as lessons for Vietnamese sports to reach new heights; enhancing the role and awareness of physical exercise and sports among all classes of people.
Outstanding marks of Vietnam's tourism; improving the competitiveness of Vietnam's tourism, developing tourism into a spearhead economic sector.
Education, building family culture in the modern period; preserving and promoting the traditional values of Vietnamese families.
New models, good practices, typical collective and individual examples, advanced examples in implementing policies and guidelines on building and developing Vietnamese culture and people to meet the requirements of sustainable national development.
Along with reflecting good people and good deeds, typical examples, encouraging entries to clarify the current status of mechanisms and policies in the fields of culture, information, family, sports, tourism and solutions for improvement. Point out difficulties, problems and inadequacies, thereby providing innovative solutions, improving the effectiveness and efficiency of state consulting and management and organizing activities to develop cultural, information, sports and tourism activities from the central to local levels.
Journalism works must ensure authenticity, persuasion, spread in public opinion and be approved and highly appreciated by the people; serve well the information and propaganda work for the development of Vietnamese culture and are published and distributed on licensed press agencies according to the provisions of law.
Author, number of entries
Each press work is published and distributed for no more than 05 periods.
Authors whose works are participating in the Award are not subject to disciplinary action in the form of a reprimand or higher or are not subject to disciplinary review or are being investigated by the investigation agency for related violations.
Members and relatives (father, mother, wife/husband, brother, sister, younger siblings) of the Organizing Committee, the Jury, and the Secretariat are not allowed to register entries to the Award.
Criteria for award consideration
The works participating in the Award are presented in Vietnamese (or in ethnic languages, foreign languages translated into Vietnamese) and are published and broadcast for the first time in various types of press, meeting the regulations of the Festival.
Works participating in the Award must ensure authenticity, authenticity, authenticity, and accuracy and objectivity. The content of the work must raise issues of culture, information, family, sports and tourism that are of public interest; have discoverers, summarizers or guidance that is convincing and highly effective in society; have attractive and creative expression methods; have a positive impact to serve the work of innovation and development of Vietnamese cultural causes.
Journalism category considered for Award
These are press works in reports, reports, investigations, documentaries, pens, talk shows (except for live broadcasts and television programs)... about culture, information, family, sports and tourism, published and distributed for the first time in the following press types: Print newspapers, electronic newspapers, radio, television, newspapers from June 16, 2024 to June 30, 2025.
Do not consider the series of articles compiled from independent articles by individual authors, published at different times, without the names of the series. Not considering works of fiction (poetry, skits, short stories, art stories, radio plays, etc.).
The entries must ensure that there are no disputes over copyrights.
Works that have been awarded in local, ministerial and industry competitions are still eligible to participate in the Award, but the award level and information about the agency/unit and the award ceremony time must be clearly stated. Works that have been awarded at the National Press Awards will not be entered in the Awards.
Works considered violating regulations (not selected) are works that do not meet the regulations stated in the Charter.
Award structure
The award is given to outstanding works in various types of journalism, with the following quantities:
Collective award: 03 Co- ngan prizes for 03 press agencies with many entries to the Award, achieving high results.
Individual prizes: 01 First prize, 03 Second prizes; 05 Third prizes; 10 Encouragement prizes for each type of press.
The Award Ceremony is expected to be held in Hanoi on October 20, 2025.
