Cultural development strategy until 2030 approved

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The strategy aims to comprehensively develop the culture and people of Vietnam in accordance with trend and requirements of the fourth Industrial Revolution and impacts of natural disasters, epidemics and crises, among others. It strives to build a healthy cultural environment across all spheres, thereby improving people's spiritual life, gradually reducing the gap in cultural enjoyment between those live in urban and rural areas, policy beneficiaries and the vulnerable; and paying heed to cultural development in ethnic minority groups

It sets a target that by 2030, all provincial administrative units have three types of cultural institutions: cultural or culture-art center, museum and library by 2030; and all units at district and communal levels have culture-sport center. Efforts will be made to ensure a minimum of 75 percent of residents in remote, mountainous and border regions and island, along with 80 percent of ethnic people can enjoy and take part in cultural activities and gain access to national and regional radio and television channels.

The strategy sets out 11 tasks and solutions such as Raising awareness, promoting propaganda on cultural development; perfecting institutions, policies and legal frameworks; building Vietnamese people to develop comprehensively; building a healthy cultural environment to create a driving force for economic and social development and international integration; improving the quality and efficiency of cultural activities; protecting and promoting national cultural heritage; perfecting the market mechanism in the field of culture, giving priority to the development of a number of cultural industries, and so on.