THE PRIME MINISTER OF GOVERNMENT
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SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM
Independence - Freedom - Happiness
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No: 167/2006/QD-TTg
Hanoi, July 14, 2006
 
DECISION
APPROVING THE SCHEME ON DEVELOPMENT OF CULTURAL AND INFORMATION ACTIVITIES IN THE MEKONG RIVER DELTA UP TO 2010
THE PRIME MINISTER
Pursuant to the December 25, 2001 Law on Organization of the Government;
Pursuant to the June 29, 2001 Law on Cultural Heritages;
At the proposal of the Minister of Culture and Information,
DECIDES:
Article 1.- To approve the Scheme on development of cultural and information activities in the Mekong River delta up to 2010, with the following principal contents:
1. The scheme's name: "Development of cultural and information activities in the Mekong River delta up to 2010."
2. The scheme's managers: The Ministry of Culture and Information and the People's Committees of Mekong River delta provinces.
3. Objectives of the scheme:
a/ To conserve, selectively inherit, preserve and promote traditional cultural values and typical cultural values, to gradually do away with obsolete and backward things; to build and develop new cultural and artistic values; to shape a civilized lifestyle and a new type of cultured families in the Mekong River delta.
b/ To unite and promote the aggregate strength of the whole nation, improve the cultural life in all economic, political and social activities; to help repel the peaceful evolution ploy of hostile forces, prevent and combat deceptive and distorting allegations, contributing to socio-economic stability and development;
c/ To discover and train ethnic minority people who are able to create literary and artistic works;
b/ To survey, collect, study and popularize cultural and artistic values; to conserve and promote traditional crafts of various ethnic groups in the Mekong River delta.
4. Contents of development of cultural and information activities in the Mekong River delta
a/ Stepping up and raising the quality of propagada work
- To step up propaganda about the Party's guidelines and the State's policies and law, political tasks and great anniversaries of the Party and the nation;
- To promote the operation efficiency of the mass media system;
- To organize a system for publishing and distributing books, newspapers and cultural publications in the whole region;
- To build itinerant communication teams and film projection teams strong and professional.
b/ Effectively organizing cultural and information activities in the Mekong River delta
To organize performances, contests, folk festivals, and cultural and sport festivals of ethnic groups; to step up the movement "All people unite to build a cultured life." To conserve and promote traditional cultural values of ethnic groups in the Mekong River delta so as to build a cultured life and raise their cultural enjoyment level and improve their spiritual life.
c/ Building a comprehensive system of cultural institutions from provincial to grassroots levels
- To plan land areas for building cultural and information institutions at each level;
- To build material foundations and supply technical equipment and facilities for the organization of cultural and information activities.
d/ Building up and developing grassroots cultural life
- To build cultured families, villages, hamlets and population centers and civilized, clean, beautiful and safe working offices;
- To collect, conserve and promote traditional cultural values of ethnic groups;
- To intensify professional cultural and sport events in service of local people; to organize cultural and sport exchanges within the region, between regions and ethnic groups;
- To develop and organize grassroots cultural and information activities.
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