Principles for allocating resources for the national target program for cultural development

Accordingly, the Decision stipulates:

+ Comply with the provisions of the Law on Public Investment, the Law on State Budget and Resolution No. 70/2025/UBTVQH15 dated February 7, 2025 of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly stipulating the principles, criteria and norms for allocating public investment capital from the state budget for the period 2026 - 2030 and related legal documents.

+ Closely follow the specific goals, targets and criteria of the Program for the 2026 - 2030 period, ensuring that it does not exceed the total development investment capital and career capital of the Program approved by competent authorities.

+ Focus on key, key and sustainable investments, focusing on the contents that need to be prioritized first to create breakthroughs in cultural development:

- Important and urgent tasks in preserving and promoting cultural heritage values and comprehensive human development.

- Perfecting the system of cultural institutions at all levels and a number of tasks that the State needs to invest in to lead, orient, control, and create a foundation to attract the whole society to participate in cultural development, especially the tasks of developing cultural industries.

- Tasks on innovation and digital transformation in the cultural field.

- Support localities with difficult socio -economic development conditions.

+ Based on the total central budget support capital (including development investment capital and career capital) and local budget capital sources, the People's Council of the province or centrally-run city decides on allocation, ensuring consistency, no overlap, no duplication in scope, objects, content, and activities with other national target programs.

Ensure centralized management, unified in objectives, mechanisms and policies; implement decentralization in investment management according to law provisions, create initiative for ministries and central agencies and thoroughly decentralize to local authorities.

- Local budget allocation for counterpart:

+ Localities with a ratio of additional balance/total local budget balance expenditure of 60% or more: Annually, the local budget shall allocate counterpart capital of at least 10% of the total central budget to support the implementation of the Program for the locality.

+ Localities with the ratio of additional balance/total local budget balance expenditure from 40% to less than 60%: Annually, the local budget shall allocate counterpart capital equal to at least 20% of the total central budget to support the implementation of the Program for the locality.

+ Localities with the ratio of additional balance/total local budget balance expenditure below 40%: Annually, the local budget shall allocate counterpart capital equal to at least 30% of the total central budget to support the implementation of the Program for the locality.

Source: https://svhttdl.dienbien.gov.vn/portal/pages/2025-11-14/Nguyen-tac-phan-bo-nguon-chuong-trinh-muc-tieu-quo.aspx