The book conveys profound messages from the General Secretary to the intellectuals, scientists, artists and those working in cultural affairs. The opinions of the Party leader on culture, literature, art, journalism and publishing expressed in the book cover the core issues of each field in a systematic, comprehensive and creative manner, and are valuable in inspiring the creative aspirations and contributions of soldiers on the cultural and ideological front of the Party.
Through thousands of years of history of creative labor and resilient struggle to build and defend the country, while absorbing achievements of human culture, the Vietnamese ethnic community has formed a Vietnamese culture with unique, rich and unified values in diversity.
In the flow of history, under the leadership of the Party over the past 94 years, the construction and development of Vietnamese culture and people have achieved important achievements, contributing to the construction and firm protection of the socialist Vietnamese Fatherland, enhancing the potential, position and prestige of the country.
After nearly 40 years of renovation, the development of society, culture and people has achieved many important results. The intellectual community is increasingly elite and numerous, unprecedented in history. Culture is increasingly diverse in fields, types and products, meeting new needs and all aspects of social life.
However, the implementation of the task of building, preserving and promoting Vietnamese culture still has many shortcomings, limitations and weaknesses, negatively affecting socio-economic development, human development and cultural environment. In the context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the strong globalization trend, with profound impacts, many opportunities and challenges are intertwined in preserving and promoting traditional cultural values.
Implementing the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress and the direction of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong at the National Cultural Conference on November 24, 2021, with great determination and persistent efforts of the entire political system, the cause of building and developing Vietnamese culture and people has had important changes, from awareness to effective action. The great achievements in the cause of building and developing Vietnamese culture and people in recent years are the achievements of our entire Party, people and army, in which the most important and decisive factor is the direct and comprehensive leadership of the Party, headed by General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong.
Having held many positions, with important responsibilities assigned by the Party, State and people, General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has always paid special attention and devoted great enthusiasm to the cause of building and developing Vietnamese culture and people. The book Building and developing an advanced Vietnamese culture imbued with national identity by General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, introduced to readers on the occasion of the 76th anniversary of Uncle Ho's Appeal for Patriotic Emulation (June 11, 1948 - June 11, 2024), the 99th anniversary of Vietnam Revolutionary Press Day (June 21, 1925 - June 21, 2024) is of great significance. With 92 articles, speeches, talks, notes, interviews, letters... of Comrade Nguyen Phu Trong on building and developing Vietnamese culture over the past 60 years selected in the book, the Party's leadership and direction on building and developing an advanced Vietnamese culture imbued with national identity have been systematized, helping sectors, levels, localities, cadres, party members, and people clearly define viewpoints, goals, orientations, and tasks of cultural development, so that culture truly becomes the spiritual foundation, driving force, and endogenous resources for national development. The speeches and articles demonstrate the General Secretary's deep concern for building, preserving, and developing Vietnamese culture with traditional and modern elements, identity, and integration, creating endogenous resources and mobilizing the strength of Vietnamese culture and people in the cause of building and developing a prosperous, happy, and prosperous country.
The important highlights in the book Building and developing an advanced Vietnamese culture with strong national identity are specifically shown:
Firstly, the General Secretary has clarified the core theoretical and practical issues in the Party's guidelines for the cause of building and developing Vietnamese culture and people. He has analyzed, interpreted and directed important contents on the characteristics, nature, position, role, goals, directions, tasks and solutions for building and developing an advanced Vietnamese culture imbued with national identity; to promote the role of culture as the spiritual foundation of society, both a goal and an important driving force for national development. The thoughts and guiding views of the General Secretary in the book are drawn from rich practice, affirming the far-sighted, broad vision, the close, comprehensive and convincing direction of the General Secretary; contributing to clarifying our Party's theoretical thinking on culture: Culture is the spiritual foundation of society, the endogenous strength, the driving force for national development and national defense; determining that cultural development is synchronous and harmonious with economic growth and progress, social justice is a fundamental orientation of the process of building socialism in Vietnam. The culture we build is an advanced culture, imbued with national identity, unified in diversity, based on progressive and humanistic values; Marxism-Leninism and Ho Chi Minh thought play a leading role in the spiritual life of society, inheriting and promoting the fine traditional values of all ethnic groups in the country, absorbing the achievements and quintessence of human culture, striving to build a progressive, civilized, healthy society, for the true interests and dignity of human beings... People hold a central position in the development strategy; Cultural development and human development are both the goal and the driving force of innovation.
The book has raised the theoretical level of building and developing an advanced Vietnamese culture imbued with national identity; it is a valuable handbook to help Party committees, Party organizations, sectors, levels, cadres and Party members grasp and effectively implement the work of building and developing Vietnamese culture and people in the coming time.
Second, the General Secretary has systematically and dialectically discussed the process of movement, development and unique values of Vietnamese culture throughout the history of the nation, especially in the Ho Chi Minh era. General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has drawn out issues of objective law and profound guiding value on the direction of building and developing the national culture; in which the focus is on building the national value system, the cultural value system, the family value system and the standards of Vietnamese people in the new era, at the same time there are very important suggestions about the elements in each value system. National value system: Peace, unity, independence, rich people, strong country, democracy, fairness, civilization, happiness. Cultural value system: Nation, democracy, humanity, science. Family value system: Prosperity, happiness, progress, civilization. Standards of Vietnamese people in the new era: Patriotism, solidarity, self-reliance, loyalty, honesty, responsibility, discipline, creativity... These are good, typical, core values, inherited and developed from national traditions, on the foundation of Marxism-Leninism, Ho Chi Minh thought as well as through the Party Congresses. Building a system of national values, a system of cultural values, a system of family values and standards of Vietnamese people in the new era is the way for us to firmly consolidate the ideological battlefield, revive culture, and make an important contribution to building soft power and endogenous power to develop the country.
It can be affirmed that the book is a work of special significance, making an important contribution to clarifying the identity, planning the fundamental and long-term direction for the task of building and developing Vietnamese culture, contributing to building and protecting the socialist Vietnamese Fatherland.
Third, with in-depth knowledge and understanding of the characteristics of each type of culture, from literature, theater to fine arts, photography, sports, from folk songs, folk songs to ca tru, quan ho, from cheo melodies to vi dam songs, or don ca tai tu,... reflecting the cultural identity of each region, area, and locality across the country such as Thang Long-Hanoi, Bac Ninh-Kinh Bac to Phu Tho, Thai Binh, Central, Central Highlands and Southern folk songs..., comrade Nguyen Phu Trong has very vivid evidence and convincing arguments, orientations that are both strategic, comprehensive, far-sighted, and very specific and close. Talking about the role of literature and art - "the voice of emotions" and writers - "forecasters", "secretaries of the times", he pointed out: "Every truly valuable literary and artistic work must have the power to move the public and readers with the responsibility, heart, and soul of the artist"; "The career of literary creation requires people with talent, soul, personality, and especially a correct position and perspective." To fulfill their mission, writers need to have "great aspirations, noble ideals, harmonizing their heartbeat with the heartbeat of the entire nation, struggling with the great reality of people's lives, not just going into personal moods, gnawing at their thoughts, being pessimistic, using tricks instead of talent, looking at life with a narrow perspective, even considering literature as a hobby, entertainment or a game, a trivial passion", making readers after closing the book feel "the pulse of life beating under the cover like blood beating under the skin".
Regarding the stage arts, he suggested that it is necessary to "create many valuable plays about the Vietnamese nation, about the Vietnamese people who are bravely overcoming challenges, accelerating the process of innovation, industrialization and modernization of the country", and at the same time create and stage many plays about history, revolution and resistance at a new level, worthy of the heroic deeds of our nation and people; because "life is in great need of plays that breathe life, have the stature of the nation and the times, attract and appeal to a large audience". The stage artist must voluntarily participate in the revolutionary cause, constantly cultivate both qualities and talents - the decisive factors for success in creative activities to contribute good works to the people and the country.
Regarding the role of culture and arts in education and nurturing human moral qualities and personality, comrade Nguyen Phu Trong affirmed: "Culture plays an important role in educating and nurturing human qualities, ethics and personality, enhancing national spirit and consciousness, preserving national identity, developing the market economy without destroying social moral values, "integrating without dissolving". To create conditions for cultural development, he affirmed that our Party and State always encourage, create conditions, have specific mechanisms and respect the creative freedom of artists, but each artist must also "have both courage and alertness, as well as qualifications, vision, ways of thinking and new methods of expression in artistic creation, suitable to practical requirements". Only when there are great aspirations and ambitions, far-sighted vision and profound thinking, can artists have good works, with high ideological and artistic value. works that "reflect the national soul and character, the great and powerful things of humanity and predict the future".
With the viewpoint: Vietnamese people are the crystallization of Vietnamese culture; building and developing Vietnamese culture is also the process of implementing human strategy, in which education and training are considered the top national policy, therefore, comrade Nguyen Phu Trong always pays special attention to the cause of education and training. During visits and working sessions with educational management agencies, training institutions, academies, universities, colleges, high schools, etc., he repeatedly reminded: "Improving people's knowledge, training human resources, and nurturing talents is a task that is both strategic and urgent for the entire Party and the entire people, first of all, the responsibility of schools and the education and training sector". The task of education and training is "to build Vietnamese people who are comprehensively developed in terms of intelligence, morality, physical strength, creativity, civic awareness, etc., making culture a factor that promotes people to perfect their personalities". That is the training of "cultured people", who live with meaning and affection, with integrity, with personality, with courage, with patriotism, with a strong attachment to the people, and are ready to contribute their efforts and intelligence to build and protect the country. Always hoping for the future of the young generation, comrade Nguyen Phu Trong reminded: "Our ancestors left us a very beautiful Vietnam. The responsibility of today's and future generations is to make Vietnam's mountains and rivers increasingly rich and powerful".
Inheriting the Vietnamese tradition of "respecting teachers", no matter what job he does or what position he holds, even when he is a leader of the Party and State, Comrade Nguyen Phu Trong still regularly writes letters to inquire about the health of his former teachers. In his speeches and articles, Comrade General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong also pays close attention to leading and directing agencies, units, and professional organizations operating in the cultural field, and cadres working in cultural work. He always emphasizes the need to pay attention to promoting the talents, enthusiasm, and encouraging the creativity of intellectuals and artists in participating in the development of the country's culture and arts; encouraging young talents and having a form of honoring artists who have contributed to the cause of building and developing culture. Culture is the people's career, so every citizen must actively participate and contribute to the creation of material and spiritual cultural values, cultivating the national culture to become more and more perfect and beautiful.
The General Secretary highly appreciated the role, responsibility and outstanding contributions of localities, agencies, units; cadres, party members and people of all walks of life in preserving, building and developing Vietnamese culture and people through practical activities such as promoting patriotic emulation movements; organizing cultural activities, building grassroots cultural institutions; preserving and promoting cultural heritage; praising typical examples in effectively implementing the content of building and developing Vietnamese culture and people in the new period; promptly criticizing signs of degradation in political ideology, ethics, lifestyle, contrary to the nation's fine customs,...
General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong also pays great attention to maintaining and promoting the pioneering role of the press and publishing on the cultural and ideological front of the Party, contributing to the cause of innovation and national construction. Comrade Nguyen Phu Trong has worked at the Communist Review for nearly 30 years, trained and matured as an editor of the Review, so he understands very well the role and tasks of journalism and journalists: "Journalism is truly a noble profession, a profession that is useful to society"; "Journalists must first of all correctly understand and firmly grasp the functions and tasks of the newspaper they serve and collaborate with". Directly serving as Editor-in-Chief of the Communist Magazine - the Party's theoretical organ, then as a Politburo member in charge of the Party's ideological-cultural and scientific work, as Vice Chairman, then Chairman of the Central Theoretical Council, in charge of the Party's theoretical work, he has worked, talked and shared experiences many times with cadres and editors of key press agencies and specialized newspapers and magazines. He requested that press agencies need to perform well their functions and tasks as the main force, pioneers on the ideological front, "contributing effectively to the formation of healthy public opinion; building the mettle, intelligence, soul and spirit of the Vietnamese people in the new period; contributing to encouraging and creating the strength of solidarity, unity and consensus of the entire nation". With a rich knowledge base, deep understanding of a former Bachelor of Literature, Hanoi University of Science, now a Professor, Doctor, General Secretary of the Party, with rich practical experience as a journalist, along with the process of continuous self-study and self-training, he shared: Every reporter, editor, journalist must have high determination, passion for the profession, be willing to study hard, persevere in training "to have both solid political qualities, good professional ethics, and sufficient qualifications and capacity to research and edit, and write articles", need to "be careful in every sentence, every word", always focus on training the pen to have "a dignified, clear writing style; tight, clear arguments, sharp, accurate evidence, and high persuasiveness" to have the most effective articles.
For the Vietnamese Publishing, Printing and Distribution industry - an important arm on the cultural and ideological front of the Party, the General Secretary requested that it "always maintain a firm political and ideological orientation, ensure harmony between political tasks and production and business, restore and strongly develop reading culture; build a team of cadres working in publishing, printing and distributing books with steadfast political will, pure ethics; good expertise and professionalism, meeting the requirements of the period of industrialization, modernization, development and deep international integration, contributing to affirming the position and role as one of the sharp ideological activities of the Party, State and People". The articles, speeches, addresses, letters... of Comrade Nguyen Phu Trong in the book show the profound and comprehensive understanding of the nature and characteristics of Vietnamese culture of the leader of our Party.
The consensus, response, determination, and quick, synchronous, and creative participation of all levels, sectors, localities, agencies, units, intellectuals, scientists, artists, and people of all walks of life are very convincing proof of the important and very special role and contributions of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong to the cause of building and developing an advanced Vietnamese culture imbued with national identity.
The book Building and developing an advanced Vietnamese culture imbued with national identity by General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong was launched at a very important time. The entire Party, the entire people and the entire army have been making efforts, united, seizing every opportunity, overcoming all difficulties and challenges, determined to successfully implement the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress. Our Party is mobilizing the combined strength of the entire political system, promoting the intelligence of experts, scientists, intellectuals, artists and people of all walks of life to participate in summarizing the theory and practice of the cause of national renewal in the direction of socialism over the past 40 years in Vietnam; summarizing 10 years of implementing the Resolution of the 9th Central Committee, Session XI on building and developing Vietnamese culture and people to meet the requirements of sustainable national development; urgently prepare to organize party congresses at all levels, towards the 14th National Congress of the Party...
The book Building and developing an advanced Vietnamese culture imbued with national identity is an important contribution of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, contributing to the completion of the theoretical system and practical foundation for building socialism and the path to socialism in our country. The book is a testament to the maturity and development of our Party's theoretical thinking and practical leadership capacity in the cause of building and developing an advanced Vietnamese culture imbued with national identity. We deeply believe that the launch of the book, together with the wise leadership of the Party and State, the synchronous and harmonious participation of the entire political system, the consensus and support of intellectuals, artists, and people of all walks of life, will continue to achieve even greater achievements in the coming time; directly contribute to building and developing our country prosperous, civilized and happy.
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