Developing cultural and sports institutions to meet integration requirements

Attending the workshop were comrades: Tran Thanh Man, Politburo member, Permanent Vice Chairman of the National Assembly; Nguyen Xuan Thang, Politburo member, Director of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics, Chairman of the Central Theoretical Council; Tran Hong Ha, Party Central Committee member, Deputy Prime Minister, and many leaders of the National Assembly, ministries and central branches.

At the workshop, delegates who are experts and scientists analyzed from theory to practical basis the bottlenecks in the work of building cultural institutions in recent times. Many opinions also assessed that institutions and policies are important "supports" to attract social resources to invest in developing the system of cultural and sports institutions.

The workshop attracted about 300 delegates who are experts, scientists, and researchers on Cultural policy.

Mr. Nguyen Van Hung, Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, said: "We also see institutional bottlenecks, including legal gaps in the formation of these institutions. To mobilize resources, the State plays a leading role in investment and completion and mobilizes other social resources. We also discover institutional bottlenecks, although we have received investment, but the management and effective promotion of it by other legal tools are not yet synchronized."

Over the years, our Party and State have always paid attention to and invested in building and developing the cause of Culture and Sports. By the end of March 2024, the whole country had 66 provincial-level cultural institutions; 689/705 districts had cultural-sports centers or cultural houses, reaching a rate of about 97.7%; more than 77% of communes, wards and towns had cultural-sports centers; about 69,000/90,508 villages, hamlets, and villages... had Cultural Houses (reaching a rate of about 76.3%).

Conference delegates

In addition, there are nearly 600 projects that meet national and international sports competition standards with hundreds of thousands of stadiums; gymnasiums with stands that meet national standards and thousands of other sports fields serving elite sports as well as mass sports.

However, according to Mr. Nguyen Xuan Thang, Director of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics, funding for investment in developing cultural and sports institutions is still limited.

Director of Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics - Mr. Nguyen Xuan Thang

According to Mr. Thang: "Many legal policies and regulations are still heavy on general guidance without full specificity, leading to content that is left to the discretion of each person, both in resource investment and in organizing activities. The promulgation of policies has not really paid attention to the specific characteristics of some cultural and sports fields.

Here we must mention the fields of elite sports such as symphony theater, opera... and high-performance sports. Some regulations on the organization of activities and criteria of sports and cultural institutions are not suitable for reality".

Mr. Nguyen Van Quyet, Chairman of the Vietnam - Japan Friendship Association of Dong Nai province, also said that in order to develop better and mobilize the private sector to invest in cultural institutions, localities need to allocate land funds to plan and build grassroots cultural and sports institutions.

"In Vietnam's integration and development, culture must be considered a parallel economic leg. Businesses are not only concerned with money. They really want their profits to be long-term, sustainable spiritual profits, so this culture is important and what they need is a policy mechanism, including foreign and domestic businesses. If I benefit, I can promote culture, then the institutions, the programs to organize cultural activities from Resolutions, directives, decrees and decisions of the local National Assembly are the most basic things" - Mr. Quyet expressed.

Cultural Conference 2024 with the theme "Policies and resources for the development of cultural and sports institutions"

Concluding the workshop, Politburo member and Permanent Vice Chairman of the National Assembly Tran Thanh Man emphasized five groups of issues that need to be focused on in leadership, direction and implementation to develop cultural and sports institutions to meet integration requirements. In particular, perfecting institutions and policies, it is necessary to develop appropriate goals and roadmaps to perfect the system of legal documents regulating cultural and sports institutions to ensure consistency, unity and feasibility.

"Research and complete investment policies for the development and operation of the cultural and sports facilities system, including public investment policies, investment policies under the public-private partnership model and socialization policies; preferential policies and investment support, especially regarding land, taxes, and credit capital in the construction of cultural, physical training and sports facilities to encourage economic sectors to participate in investment and development," Mr. Tran Thanh Man emphasized.

The Standing Vice Chairman of the National Assembly also noted that it is necessary to strengthen leadership, direction, guidance and innovation in content and methods of organization, improve the quality and efficiency of activities, and at the same time, it is necessary to replicate typical models of organizing activities, suitable for regions, subjects, and ages, with priority given to mountainous areas, islands, border areas, remote areas, and ethnic minority areas.

In particular, it is necessary to strengthen inspection, examination, auditing and supervision of public assets in general and public assets in cultural and sports institutions in particular.

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