Advance payment of nearly 31 billion VND for Ho Chi Minh Prize

Accordingly, an advance of 30.8 billion VND will be allocated from temporarily idle state funds to supplement the budgets of literary and artistic associations, enabling them to promptly pay prize money to authors and co-authors who have received the Ho Chi Minh Prize and the State Prize for Literature and Art. The Ministry of Finance is responsible for the content and data in the report and proposal.

Authors and representatives of the authors' families receive the State Prize for Literature and Art.

The list of literary and artistic associations that received additional funding to pay prize money to authors and co-authors includes: Vietnam Musicians Association (5.6 billion VND), Vietnam Film Association (5.46 billion VND), Vietnam Fine Arts Association (2.68 billion VND), Vietnam Photographers Association (3.18 billion VND), Vietnam Theatre Artists Association (2.57 billion VND), Vietnam Writers Association ( 5.36 billion VND), Vietnam Folk Arts Association (506.6 million VND), Vietnam Architects Association (253.3 million VND), and Vietnam Dancers Association (5.15 billion VND).

The government requires the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism to take full responsibility for the list of authors and co-authors receiving awards and for the estimated payment of the prizes.

Literary and artistic associations are responsible for managing and using the additional funds to pay prizes to authors and co-authors in accordance with regulations.

The Ho Chi Minh Prize and the State Prize for Literature and Arts in 2022 were awarded to 128 authors and co-authors; of which 16 authors and co-authors were awarded or posthumously awarded the Ho Chi Minh Prize.

Previously, on October 12th, Deputy Prime Minister Le Minh Khai emphasized that, up to that point, the allocation of funds to pay out the prize money for the two awards had been very slow.

The reason is that some provisions in the regulations are not entirely reasonable or clear. In addition, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Ministry of Finance have not coordinated well. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism did not propose budget estimates in a timely manner, while the Ministry of Finance did not process them promptly, leading to delays in submitting them to the Prime Minister for consideration.

The Deputy Prime Minister also requested that the two ministries conduct a serious review, learn valuable lessons, and prevent similar incidents from happening again.

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