Speaking at the Conference - Workshop, Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Hoang Dao Cuong emphasized that from the first documents on cultural heritage protection to the Law on Cultural Heritage No. 45/2024/QH15, "institutional work and awareness of cultural heritage conservation have been increasingly improved and developed".
This process has strengthened the firm belief and also entrusted the industry with great responsibilities to protect and promote the value of cultural heritage in the new period: Preserving cultural identity to contribute to the sustainable development of the country in the era of national growth.
Deputy Minister Hoang Dao Cuong pointed out at the Conference - Workshop 6 key tasks to continue improving the quality and effectiveness of activities to protect and promote the value of cultural heritage in the coming time, including:
Continue to implement the Resolutions of the Party Central Committee, Projects, Action Programs of the Government, Plan to implement the Minister's Directive on strengthening state management of a number of cultural and artistic activities, festivals, protecting and promoting the value of cultural heritage, and restoring and developing tourism.
Focus on research, consulting, and perfecting institutions, mechanisms, and policies on cultural heritage, especially developing documents guiding the implementation of the 2024 Law on Cultural Heritage, creating a favorable legal corridor for the protection and promotion of cultural heritage values to be effectively implemented in practice.
Remove policy barriers, harmoniously resolve the relationship between conservation and development, exploit cultural resources, encourage active participation of society, create motivation to promote soft, endogenous power of culture for socio-economic development.
Continue to effectively implement the Program for preserving and promoting the sustainable values of Vietnamese cultural heritage, period 2021 - 2025; Program for digitizing cultural heritage, period 2021 - 2030; National target program on cultural development, period 2025 - 2035, promote digital transformation, apply information technology in documenting the document system and building a national database on cultural heritage.
Actively and proactively integrate and cooperate internationally to mobilize resources and learn from the experiences of preserving cultural heritage of countries around the world, keeping up with the international trend of conservation associated with sustainable development in the current global context.
Strengthen training and fostering to improve professional qualifications and skills and innovate the thinking of civil servants and public employees in the industry about the position, role and development trends of the career of protecting and promoting the value of cultural heritage.
At the Conference - Workshop, Associate Professor, Dr. Le Thi Thu Hien - Director of the Department of Cultural Heritage - shared: "On the international level, Vietnam has affirmed itself as one of the member countries actively participating in UNESCO Conventions, contributing experience as well as demonstrating efforts to preserve the cultural heritage of humanity. Cultural heritage has been and is contributing significantly to the economic and social development of localities and the overall development of the country".
The Conference - Workshop "65 years of protecting and promoting cultural heritage values" received more than 30 comments and presentations from delegates, experts, organizations, scientists and institutions.
With a spirit of democracy, openness, enthusiasm and high responsibility, the delegates exchanged and discussed topics, contributing to clarifying a number of theoretical and practical issues in the management, protection and promotion of cultural heritage values.
