Thanh Hoa is determined to become the cultural, sports and tourism center of the region.

VHO - In the period of 2025 - 2030, the Thanh Hoa Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism aims to continue to innovate, promote the patriotic emulation movement, and strive to build Thanh Hoa into a center of culture, sports and tourism in the North Central region.

In the period of 2020 - 2025 , Thanh Hoa's culture, sports and tourism sector has made comprehensive development: high-performance sports have risen to the top of the country with many continental and world medals; culture and heritage have been preserved, many relics and festivals have been restored and embellished; tourism has strongly recovered after the pandemic, welcoming more than 58.2 million visitors, with revenue of nearly 129 trillion VND.

Timely and fair emulation and reward work has motivated thousands of collectives and individuals to work enthusiastically and creatively, contributing to creating a solid foundation for the 2025 - 2030 period.

On the threshold of a new development stage, Van Hoa reporter had an interview with Mr. Pham Nguyen Hong - Director of Thanh Hoa Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism about the orientations, tasks and key solutions of the industry in the coming time.

. Reporter: Sir, Thanh Hoa Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism has successfully completed many goals for the period 2020 - 2025. So, moving into the new period, what is the overall goal of the department?

- Director Pham Nguyen Hong: Our overall goal is to continue to innovate and improve the quality of patriotic emulation movements, considering emulation as a driving force to complete and exceed the development targets of culture, information, sports, tourism , press and publishing.

The leaders of Thanh Hoa province and the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism awarded Certificates of Merit from the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee to collectives with many contributions to the process of building and developing the cultural sector.

By 2030, Thanh Hoa strives to welcome 21.5 million tourists, including 1.6 million international visitors; total revenue reaches 94,200 billion VND, of which revenue from international visitors reaches about 900 million USD.

High-performance sports maintain their leading position in the country. Grassroots culture is increasingly improved, the rate of people regularly practicing sports reaches 45%.

What are the specific targets that the industry sets for the period 2025 - 2030, sir?

- We set many targets, including some highlights: Organizing 900 professional art performances/year, participating in over 5 national competitions and performances/year.

Organize 10-15 film screenings and film weeks each year, reaching about 1,450 film screenings.

The annual cultural title recognition rate reaches 80-85%.

Build 3,200 - 3,700 grassroots sports clubs, raising the rate of sports families to more than 31%.

Maintaining high sports achievements in the top group of the country, Thanh Hoa Football team strives to rank high in V-League, Women's Volleyball team maintains position in the strong group.

These figures are both the target to strive for and the measure to evaluate the actual results of the emulation movement in the whole industry.

Mr. Pham Nguyen Hong - Director of Thanh Hoa Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism spoke about the industry's development orientation for the period 2025-2030 at the conference of advanced models.

To achieve that goal, what are the key solutions that the industry will implement in the coming time, sir?

- We identify 5 key solution groups:

Firstly, strengthen the leadership of Party committees and authorities, promote the responsibility of leaders, and promote the exemplary vanguard role of cadres and Party members.

Second, continue to promote propaganda and raise awareness of emulation and reward work; widely disseminate the Law on Emulation and Reward and guiding documents.

Third, innovate the content and form of emulation movements, linking the movements with political tasks and practical life; ensure practicality and effectiveness, and avoid formality.

Fourth, take care to discover, nurture and replicate advanced models, using real people and real deeds as a driving force for spreading.

Fifth, implement timely, objective and fair rewards; prioritize collectives and individuals directly working at the grassroots level and typical creative examples.

Crowded tourists at Sam Son beach - one of the key destinations of Thanh Hoa tourism

In the cultural field, what are the industry's orientations in the coming period?

- We continue to pay attention to preserving and promoting heritage values, considering this a particularly important resource. Plans to preserve, restore and embellish key relics associated with tourism development will be implemented synchronously.

At the same time, we focus on developing grassroots culture, improving the quality of the movement "All people unite to build a cultural life", building a civilized lifestyle in weddings, funerals and festivals.

The goal is that by 2030, the rate of households achieving the title of cultural family will reach over 85%, the rate of cultural residential areas will reach over 90%, contributing to improving people's spiritual life.

.With sports, what is the focus in developing high performance and mass sports?

- We will continue to maintain and develop strong sports such as Judo, Vovinam, Muay, Pencak Silat, Athletics...; strive to win medals at continental and world competitions. At the same time, we also develop mass sports, strive to achieve a rate of 45% of the population practicing sports regularly, and build more than 3,000 grassroots sports clubs.

Outstanding collectives and typical advanced models in the patriotic emulation movement for the period 2020-2025 were awarded Certificates of Merit by the Director of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Thanh Hoa for their outstanding achievements.

Regarding tourism, what will Thanh Hoa do to truly become an attractive destination?

- We focus on synchronizing solutions: Completing planning, attracting investment in key tourism projects such as Sea Square, festival landscape axis in Sam Son, Flamingo Linh Truong Eco-tourism Area...

Strengthening promotion, promotion, and connecting tours within and outside the province and internationally. Building new, unique tourism products that are imbued with Thanh identity. Focusing on training human resources, improving service quality; at the same time ensuring security, safety, environmental sanitation, and creating trust for tourists.

Can you share more messages to cadres, civil servants, public employees and workers in the whole industry?

- I hope that all cadres, civil servants, public employees and workers of the Thanh Hoa Culture, Sports and Tourism sector will continue to be united, proactive, creative, uphold the spirit of responsibility and strongly respond to emulation movements.

Each individual needs to clearly define their responsibilities in building Thanh Hoa into a cultural, sports and tourism center of the North Central region. This is not only the task of the industry, but also the common aspiration of the Party, government and people in the province.

.Thank you very much. Wishing the Thanh Hoa Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism to continue to reap many successes, contributing to the successful implementation of the Resolution of the 20th Provincial Party Congress.

(Department of Organization and Personnel, Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism)

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