November 24 designated as Vietnam Cultural Day
This content is stipulated in Resolution No. 80 of the Politburo on the development of Vietnamese culture, signed and promulgated by General Secretary To Lam.
The Politburo has recently issued Resolution No. 80 on the development of Vietnamese culture, which designates November 24 each year as “Vietnam Cultural Day.” According to the resolution, workers nationwide will be entitled to a paid day off on this occasion.
Signed and promulgated by General Secretary To Lam, the resolution identifies cultural and human development as the spiritual foundation, a vital endogenous resource, a powerful driving force, and a pillar and regulatory mechanism for the country’s rapid and sustainable development.
The resolution emphasizes that cultural values must be closely, harmoniously, and deeply integrated into all aspects of social life—from politics, the economy, society, and the environment to national defense, security, and foreign affairs—thereby truly becoming the nation’s soft power in the new era.
The designation of November 24 as Vietnam Cultural Day, with full pay for workers, aims to create favorable conditions for the people to enhance their access to and enjoyment of culture, while also motivating artists and writers to create, and encouraging society as a whole to uphold and practice a cultured and civilized way of life.
Regarding targets through 2030, the Politburo calls for intensified efforts to build and develop an advanced Vietnamese culture imbued with strong national identity. At the same time, it stresses the development of cultural industries and the formation of a startup ecosystem in cultural industries and creative arts.
The resolution also sets out the requirement to build several internationally competitive cultural industry groups, based on high technology platforms and innovative business models.
Looking ahead to 2045, the Politburo emphasizes the goal of affirming Vietnam’s cultural position as a developed, high-income, socialist-oriented nation; becoming an attractive destination for major regional and international cultural and artistic events; and emerging as one of the dynamic centers of cultural and creative industries.
Accordingly, Vietnam strives to establish 10 internationally recognized art festival and cultural event brands; secure the UNESCO recognition and inscription of an additional 8–10 cultural heritage elements; rank among the Top 3 in ASEAN and the Top 30 globally in the Soft Power Index; and increase the export value of cultural industry products.
To realize these goals, the Politburo calls for renewing cultural governance toward a facilitative and service-oriented approach; accelerating the application of science, technology, innovation, and digital transformation; and building a comprehensive cultural ecosystem to create breakthrough momentum for the development of Vietnamese culture in the new period.
Tran Thao