Today, December 18, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MCST) held a national online conference to review the work in 2024 and deploy key tasks in 2025 with the theme: "Building an advanced culture imbued with national identity - The driving force for national development in the new era - The era of the Vietnamese people's rise". Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh; Head of the Central Propaganda Department Nguyen Trong Nghia attended. Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Hoang Nam attended the conference at the Quang Tri province bridge.
Delegates attending the conference at the Quang Tri province bridge - Photo: NTH
Reporting on the summary of work in 2024, Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Nguyen Van Hung said: During the year, the ministry has strongly changed the development institution from cultural practice to cultural management, building a system of cultural values to affirm that "Culture lights the way for the nation to go", culture is both the goal and the driving force of development. The work of building a cultural environment and cultural people is focused, taking the grassroots as the center.
State management of cultural heritage has gradually promoted its value, turned heritage into assets, and created space for cultural tourism development. The cultural industry has developed into an attractive destination for performing arts, contributing nearly 4.3% to the country's GDP. Cultural diplomacy continues to be more diverse and profound, while spreading Vietnamese culture abroad.
Vietnamese sports participation in international sports events left a positive impression. Vietnam's tourism promotion and advertising activities developed in all indicators, tourism recovered after the COVID-19 pandemic, attracting 110 million domestic visitors and 17 million international visitors. Vietnam was honored as the leading destination in Asia for the fourth consecutive time.
Regarding the key tasks in 2025, the culture, sports and tourism sector will accelerate and strive to successfully achieve the cultural, sports and tourism goals in the socio-economic targets for the 2021-2025 term, while streamlining the organizational apparatus to meet the requirements of the new era - the era of the Vietnamese nation's rise.
Focus on advising on comprehensive institutionalization of institutions, mechanisms and policies for the development of the culture, sports and tourism sector according to the motto of the state creating policies, creating and building a cultural environment and comprehensive development of Vietnamese people, with the people at the center. From the viewpoint that culture is the foundation, sports is the strength, tourism is a key economic sector closely linked with culture and sports to create endogenous strength for development, striving for 2025 for the Vietnamese tourism industry to welcome 120-130 million domestic visitors and 23 million international visitors.
In his speech, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh emphasized that the culture, sports and tourism sector is the crystallization of the past, the present and an attractive destination for the future. The mission of the culture, sports and tourism sector is to internationalize Vietnamese culture and human values and Vietnamize the quintessence of world culture, creating an endogenous strength to make our country stronger and develop more firmly. The ultimate goal is to make all people enjoy cultural values in the most satisfactory way.
Accordingly, the culture, sports and tourism sector must strive to improve its institutions, remove “bottlenecks”, make its institutions a “breakthrough of breakthroughs”, and end the situation of asking and giving, and banning if you cannot manage. Develop infrastructure, especially digital infrastructure, digitize industry data to serve development.
There are specific mechanisms and policies for training human resources, encouraging the development of human talents, and retaining talented people in the fields of culture, sports and tourism. Mobilizing resources for development, first of all, resources of mechanisms and policies to lead and activate social resources to invest in the development of the culture, sports and tourism sector, turning cultural heritage and human assets into material wealth for national development.
Smartly manage the culture, sports and tourism sector, closely follow the management of goals to build appropriate and effective mechanisms and policies, create higher added value, create opportunities and mechanisms for people to enjoy culture, sports and tourism with innovative thinking, strategic vision, think deeply to do big things, and resolutely break through to accelerate the implementation and completion of set goals.
Thanh Hai
Source: https://baoquangtri.vn/nganh-van-hoa-the-thao-va-du-lich-trien-khai-nhiem-vu-nam-2025-190482.htm
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