A ceremony marks the Hung Kings anniversary at the Hung Temples Historical Relic Area in Phu Tho Province. — VNA/VNS FIle Photo

HA NOI (VNS)— The culture sector and other agencies should make the best of the market economy to build an advanced culture deeply imbued with national identity and traditions, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said.

He was speaking at a meeting in Ha Noi yesterday to review 15 years' implementation of a Resolution of the Communist Party of Viet Nam's Central Committee, eighth tenure, on building and developing an advanced Vietnamese culture with national identity.

Theoretical issues and practicalities emerging from the implementation of the Resolution have touched upon the need to highlight the obvious role of culture in sustainable economic development.

"Culture provides a spiritual foundation for society, being a target and a driving force that spurs the country's development," Dung said.

The Party and State had always given due attention to cultural development, identifying it as an important front in the ideological field that contributed vastly to the triumph of the nation's revolutionary cause, he affirmed.

The Resolution demonstrated the Party's strategic vision and revolutionary thinking in the renewal process, Dung said, making clear that the role of culture was vital to the country's political and socio-economic development as well as intellectual life in the process of national modernisation and industrialisation.

The task of building an advanced culture with national identity would become even more important in the future, the Government leader emphasised.

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.

Reports delivered at the meeting looked at issues including Vietnamese people in a new period, developing a cultural environment, preserving and promoting the values of cultural heritage and ethnic minorities, implementing cultural policies on beliefs and religions, and expanding cultural co-operation. — VNS