Culture is a spiritual foundation of society, being a target and a stimulus of the national socio-economic development, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung made the statement during a conference in Ha Noi yesterday to review the fifteen-year implementation of Party resolution on building and developing Viet Nam's advanced culture deeply imbued with national identity.

The Party and State always pay much attention to cultural development and consider culture as an important ideological front, which has made great contributions to the success of the national revolutionary cause, PM Dung stressed.

The Government leader also emphasised the Party’s strategic vision and revolutionary outlook of building an advanced culture with national identity in the renewal process and its high valuation to the role and mission of culture in socio-economic and political development.

He recognised the outcomes of the resolution implementation in the past 15 years and asked the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism to work closely with relevant agencies to seek creative and effective solutions to grasp opportunities, promote strengths and limit negative impacts of the market economy on building and developing Viet Nam's advanced culture imbued with national identity.

In order not to lose our national identity during the process of global integration, the culture, sports and tourism sector should continue to embrace the Party and State's policy and guidelines on culture, and implement the "Culture Development Strategy from now to 2020", the PM requested. He also asked the culture sector to improve its management of all aspects of cultural life.

He asked the whole society to join hand in building a sound and civilised cultural environment which lay a strong foundation for current and future generation links.

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