On August 19, in Hanoi, the Ministry of Information and Communications coordinated with the Central Propaganda Department and the Vietnam Publishing Association to organize a scientific workshop on "Improving policy mechanisms, supporting publishing activities and collecting opinions on amending and supplementing the Publishing Law".
The workshop was organized in both in-person and online formats. There were about 15 presentations, focusing on issues and groups of issues related to the main theme of the workshop to recognize the role and position of publishing activities, discuss in depth some major issues, and lay the foundation for industry development, such as: Publishing house model, preferential policies suitable to specific characteristics, human resource development and improving the quality of publishing house leadership in the new situation.
The workshop focused on recognizing the role and position of publishing activities and some issues that lay the foundation for the development of the industry. (Photo: Nhan Dan Newspaper)
In his opening speech, Vice President of the Vietnam Publishing Association, Director of the Department of Publishing, Printing and Distribution Nguyen Nguyen summarized the outstanding results of the publishing industry over the past 20 years; the existing limitations and causes of limitations. Over the past 20 years, the growth rate has been about 6-8%, relatively stable. In 2023, it will reach about 5.3 copies/person/year. The printing sector has also developed strongly, in 2023, the whole industry will have more than 2/100 printing establishments with high revenue. The distribution sector has flourished, with more than 2,000 units, and e-books have developed rapidly.
The main shortcomings identified are: The total scale of all three sectors is still limited, reaching only about 102,000 billion VND in 2023. The publishing sector has a revenue exceeding 100 billion VND/year, which is still low. The printing sector is still small-scale, with limited technological capacity and outdated equipment. The distribution system is developing unevenly, with many shortcomings; bringing books to remote areas is still difficult.
Many new problems have arisen that require early remedial measures: Regulations on policies; regulations on models; implementation of administrative procedures; regulations on electronic publishing... Three subjective reasons leading to the limitations include: The institutionalization of the contents, orientations, and directions of Directive 42 is still slow, lacking attention to resource allocation; inadequate awareness of responsibilities of agencies; limitations and weaknesses of a part of the leadership.
At the Workshop, the proposals and recommendations mostly focused on the policy mechanism that urgently needs to build a comprehensive, long-term and sustainable development strategy for the publishing industry, both ensuring the specific nature of publishing activities in accordance with the policies and guidelines of the Party and State, and adapting to the development laws of the region and the world.
In addition, it is necessary to develop specific mechanisms and policies for the type of publishing enterprises as units operating in the fields of politics, culture and ideology. These are mechanisms and policies on land and housing rental prices, headquarters, tax exemptions and reductions, infrastructure investment, publishing costs, human resource training, support and preferential interest rates on bank loans, long-term and in-depth projects...
Relevant agencies need to urgently develop a strategy and roadmap to apply the strengths of digital transformation to publishing activities in all three stages: publishing, printing, and distribution. Especially the ability to connect in exploiting data sources, researching and exploiting market needs and reader preferences.
H.Anh
Source: https://www.congluan.vn/can-gap-rut-xay-dung-mot-chien-luoc-ap-dung-chuyen-doi-so-vao-hoat-dong-xuat-ban-post308334.html
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