| THE PRIME MINISTER OF GOVERNMENT ----- | SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM Independence - Freedom - Happiness ------- |
| No: 19/2003/QD-TTg | Hanoi , Day 28 month 01 year 2003 |
DECISION
APPROVING THE NATIONAL TARGET PROGRAM ON CULTURE TILL 2005
THE PRIME MINISTER
Pursuant to the Law on Organization of the Government of December 25, 2001;
Pursuant to the Prime Minister’s Decision No. 71/2001/QD-TTg of May 4, 2001 on the national target programs in the 2001-2005 period;
At the proposals of the Minister of Culture and Information (Official Dispatch No. 2831/VHTT-KH of July 25, 2001) and the Minister of Planning and Investment (Official Dispatch No. 7114 BKH/VPTD of October 22, 2001),
DECIDES:
Article 1.- To approve the national target program on culture till 2005 with the following principal contents:
1. The program’s objectives:
a/ General objectives:
- To conserve and promote the nation’s typical cultural values.
- To build and develop the cultural life at the grassroots level (wards, communes, townships, towns, villages, hamlets,...).
- To modernize the film production, archival and dissemination technologies.
b/ Specific objectives:
- To efficiently preclude dangers of degradation and disappearance of cultural heritages. To invest in reparation, replenishment, restoration and building of monuments and beauty spots, and develop non-material cultural heritages into valuable cultural products in the work of education of historical and old-age cultural traditions in service of the demands for cultural activities of the whole society in general and the tourist development demands in particular.
To continue promoting the results achieved in the building and development of grassroots information and culture, especially in highland, deep-lying, remote, mountainous, border, island and ethnic minority areas. Not to allow the existence of places where cultural activities are not organized; to build bright spots of cultural activities in all fields of the social life.
- To create harmony between cultural conservation and development in building an advanced Vietnamese culture strong with national identity.
- To modernize the film production and dissemination techniques. To improve the skills to use modern film production and dissemination equipment and techniques for cinematographic professionals in order to raise the quality of cinematographic works, meet the people’s increasing demands for cultural enjoyment, and export Vietnamese films to foreign countries.
2. The program’s contents:
Including the following 3 major tasks:
1. The task of conserving, replenishing and promoting the nation’s typical cultural heritage values, involving the following 3 projects:
a/ The project for degradation combat and replenishment of historical, revolutionary and resistance war relics, including the following contents:
- To continue conserving and replenishing historical, revolutionary and resistance war monuments, especially those relics of particularly important value.
- To study and preserve monuments by modern technologies.
- To train managerial officials, protect and organize activities at relics.
b/ The project for collection and conservation of typical non-material cultural values and building of a data bank on the non-material culture, including the following contents:
- To systemize non-material cultural heritages in localities.
- To collect in a comprehensive manner the typical non-material cultural heritages of some localities and of ethnic minority groups.
- To study for restoration and dissemination of a number of types of typical traditional cultural and artistic activities.
- To establish a data bank on the non-material culture.
- To train officials who shall collect and manage the non-material culture.
c/ The project for survey and conservation of a number of typical villages and hamlets (hereafter referred collectively to as villages) and unique traditional rituals of ethnic minority groups, including the following contents:
- Surveys and compilation of dossiers of a number of typical villages of ethnic minority groups, which have still maintained many traditional cultural particularities. Selection of villages for project formulation and experimental conservation of 2 or 3 particularly typical villages.
- Support for the organization of unique traditional rituals of ethnic minority groups.
2. The task of building the cultural life at the grassroots level, including the following 4 projects:
a/ The project for building grassroots cultural and information institutions, building models of culture and information activities in villages and communes (with priority given first to highland, deep-lying, remote and mountainous and ethnic minority areas in order to narrow the cultural enjoyment gap between regions), including the following contents:
- To provide equipment in service of activities of cultural houses, cultured villages and mobile information teams.
- To equip transport means used exclusively for mobile cultured and information activities (special-use automobiles and culture boats).
- To build a number of information clusters at border gates.
- To train officials who shall perform the work of grassroots culture and information.
