Ensuring national cultural security is an important and regular task to protect national security and the construction and development of culture-the spiritual foundation of society. Cultural security is a new concept in the category of non-traditional security, implying the stability and sustained development of national security and culture. The contents and main tasks of ensuring national cultural security include: 1. To maintain and popularize ideologies (ideological foundation) of the ruling class, and of the political party which leads the state and society in building and developing the national culture; 2. To inherit and promote national traditional and cultural identity; 3. To innovate and disseminate the ruling party’s ideological orientation, institutions, state laws and traditions, and national cultural identity; 4. To effectively fight against harmful and erroneous cultural products, sabotage of ideology and culture staged by hostile forces and security disorder in … [Read more...] about Ensuring national culture security in the new situation
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National culture comes first
National culture comes first (28-08-2008) Nguyen Huu Chau, director of the National Institute for Education Strategy and Curriculum Development, talks to Thoi Bao Kinh Te Viet Nam (Vietnam Economic Times) about ways to develop education. How have economic fluctuations affected Viet Nam's education? Viet Nam is developing with a high economic growth rate and people are enjoying an improved living standard. However, during the past time, the country's financial market has had to deal with a lot of changes. For example, escalating inflation has strongly affected education and had an impact on things like building new schools, paying teachers' salaries and increasing credit funds for students. We have had to change some policies to fix problems related to inflation. What are the main challenges education faces now? The first challenges is to keep our national cultural characteristics and ensure sovereignty in education and the training sector. Because during global integration, we have to … [Read more...] about National culture comes first
Preserving and promoting national cultural identities in Lao Cai province
(CPV) - Over the past five years, the project to preserve and promote national cultural identities of ethnic people in the northwestern province of Lao Cai has achieved a great deal. Many objects and traditional villages have been preserved and reinstated. Many cultural and tourist villages have been established and put into operation. People's lives have been improved. A correspondent from the Communist Party of Vietnam Online Newspaper interviewed Tran Huy Son, head of the Lao Cai provincial Department of Culture and Information about this. * Dear Mr Son, how did the Department of Culture and Information cooperate with committees and agencies to implement the project? Implementing the 5th resolution of the Party Central Committee (the 8th tenure) on building an advanced Vietnamese culture imbued with national identities and Plan No 03 of the Lao Cai provincial Party Committee on key tasks until 2005, including the project to preserve and promote cultural identities of ethnic people … [Read more...] about Preserving and promoting national cultural identities in Lao Cai province
Folklore and the national culture
Culture, including folklore is the product of social development at a certain level. However, after taking shape, culture will again influence the society as the "spiritual foundation of the society", and "the motivation and objective of social development". Vietnam is a Southeast Asian country, which has its own folklore with a special trait. This is the oral cultural tradition, which is different from both China and India who have a written cultural tradition. Vietnam's folklore was formed and developed very long ago, originating from primitive society. In the sovereign feudal time while the scholarly, professional and court culture was formed and developed, folklore still existed and played an important role in the development of Vietnam's culture and society, particularly among the working masses. … [Read more...] about Folklore and the national culture
Preserving and promoting the character of national culture
For centuries, the character of the national culture has been its strong vitality which has helped the Vietnamese people to overcome many difficulties and challenges and grow in strength. Realizing the important significance of the national character, the Vietnamese Communist Party has issued a number of directives and resolutions in order to mobilize both internal and external resources to preserve and promote the character of the national culture in response to the development needs of society and the people in the process of accelerating industrialization and modernization and international economic integration. … [Read more...] about Preserving and promoting the character of national culture