External cultural strategy up to 2020 with a vision towards 2030

(Cinet)- Ninh Binh province organized the workshop to discuss about culture and arts by some domestic and foreign managers and researchers to specify the Vietnam’s external cultural strategy to 2020 with a vision towards 2030 on August 13.

Some participants suggested developing professional media publications while focusing on personnel training in the cultural diplomacy and combining cultural diplomacy with other affairs relating to overseas Vietnamese and politic and economic diplomacies.

Addressing a workshop on August 13, Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Ho Anh Tuan noted that culture is the spiritual foundation of society, serving as the nation’s inner strength to ensure sustainable development and firm protection of the country for the goal of wealthy people, a strong, democratic, equal and civilised country.

Minister Anh said that it was a crucial task for building the culture and people of Vietnam in comprehensive development toward the true, the good and the beautiful, deeply imbued with the national identity, democracy and science and human values

According to Mr. Poul Bache, Director of the Danish Cultural Agency, the external cultural services aim to expand cultural exchanges, absorb the quintessence of the mankind’s culture to enrich the national culture. It also helps developing the potential of the national culture in order to actively participate in the international cultural integration and exchange while supporting other types of diplomacy used in international relations.

They also discussed how to strengthen ties with countries and territories, promote the image and people of Vietnam to the world, and absorb the world’s quintessence to enrich the national cultural identity.

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