Resolution No. 80 establishes a new mindset regarding the role and position of culture: not only as a spiritual foundation, but also as an endogenous resource, a "regulatory system" for the development process. Years of practice have shown that the gap between policy and implementation remains significant; policies lack coordination; resources are fragmented; the cultural market is developing slowly; and many potentials remain untapped... Without a legal breakthrough, major orientations are likely to become "correct but difficult to translate into action and practical value."
Many aspects of Resolution No. 80 are groundbreaking, innovative, and even unprecedented in the current legal system. From developing the cultural industry as a key economic sector; building a digital culture and digital cultural resources linked to ensuring sovereignty in cyberspace; to promoting public-private partnerships, implementing models of public leadership and private governance, and public investment and private management... All of this requires a comprehensive legal framework – one that is both flexible and groundbreaking enough to promote development and innovation, yet rigorous enough to ensure discipline and effective governance.
Looking ahead, with the draft Resolution of the National Assembly , experts believe that it is necessary to legalize the regulation allocating at least 2% of the total state budget expenditure to culture, gradually increasing it according to practical needs, institutionalizing it as a principle for budget allocation and incorporating it into the medium-term public investment plan, linked to a strict monitoring mechanism. At the same time, there needs to be regulations on a separate financial mechanism for the three breakthrough areas identified in Resolution No. 80: talent training, digital transformation, and commissioning the creation of high-quality cultural works. This is not just a matter of spending, but a focused and targeted investment for the future.
Another bottleneck is the mechanism for mobilizing social resources. The National Assembly needs to remove current legal barriers, especially in the field of public-private partnerships (PPP); it needs to clearly define which cultural institutions can apply new models such as "public investment - private management," "public leadership - private governance," etc. Simultaneously, there should be outstanding preferential policies regarding land, tax exemptions and reductions for corporate income tax for innovative startups in the cultural sector to create real incentives for private sector participation.
Another important pillar is the development of the cultural industry in conjunction with ensuring people's right to enjoy culture. Resolution No. 80 sets specific targets for the contribution of the cultural industry to GDP, while also emphasizing the requirement to ensure equal access for disadvantaged groups. To realize this requirement, a national cultural index should be issued as a basis for evaluating the responsibility of local governments, and a mechanism for ordering public services in the cultural field, such as digital libraries, digital museums, and online art learning platforms, should be established so that people in all regions have the opportunity to access them.
Of course, to have a synchronized and unified legal system for the effective implementation of the Party's policies and guidelines on culture, much work remains to be done. The National Assembly will have to focus on developing laws on artistic and literary activities, copyright, and the cultural industry... in a way that fosters and unlocks resources for cultural development; it must amend, supplement, and replace inadequate and overlapping legal documents; remove institutional bottlenecks and obstacles; and supplement the legal framework to address new issues arising from practice.
But for now, the immediate issuance of a National Assembly Resolution will create a breakthrough in the institutional framework for cultural development, providing a legal foundation for a fundamental shift in development thinking: from viewing culture as a "budget-consuming" sector to viewing culture as a resource, a driving force, and the foundation of national "soft power".
In the context of increasingly global competition linked to competition in values and identity, the urgent preparation to submit to the National Assembly for promulgation a Resolution on cultural development at the First Session of the 16th National Assembly is a strategic step to position Vietnamese culture in the new development space, while affirming the determination to truly imbue culture into, guide, and promote sustainable national development in the new era.
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