Elegant, civilized, creative – the model of Hanoians in the new era

On this occasion, Nhan Dan Newspaper reporters interviewed Permanent Deputy Secretary of the Hanoi Party Committee Nguyen Van Phong to clarify the above contents.

Reporter : Dear comrade , during the 2020-2025 term, Hanoi city has implemented many solutions to build the culture and people of the capital in the spirit of Program 06 of the City Party Committee. Could you please tell us about the outstanding results, as well as the limitations and shortcomings after 5 years of implementing this program?

Comrade Nguyen Van Phong : In the period of 2020-2025, with high political determination, methodical and creative approaches, the task of building the culture and people of the Capital has had many positive changes, been widely implemented and achieved many important results, notably:

- Firstly, strongly innovate the thinking in the strategy of building the culture and people of the Capital, focusing on completing and implementing the Project on the value system of Hanoi people in the new period, including 6 groups of core qualities: Patriotism, Compassion, Loyalty, Honesty, Creativity, Integration.

- Second, Hanoi is the first locality in the country to issue and effectively implement Resolution No. 09 - Thematic Resolution on "Developing cultural industries in the city for the period 2021-2025, orientation to 2030, vision to 2045"; marking a breakthrough in thinking about developing cultural industries in the capital, changing the perception of the role of culture in the cause of building and developing the capital, thereby the capital's culture is interested and invested, focusing on building and perfecting mechanisms, policies, and planning to integrate the task of developing cultural industries into the Hanoi Planning to 2030, vision to 2050.

The Temple of Literature - Imperial Academy relic site is sparkling at night. (Photo: GIANG NAM)

- Third, Hanoi pays special attention to building elegant and civilized Hanoians. The highlight is that Hanoi has issued Directive No. 30-CT/TU on "Strengthening the leadership of Party committees at all levels in building elegant and civilized Hanoians".

- Fourthly, by the end of 2024, Hanoi has completed most of the cultural targets of Program 06 ahead of schedule, in which the city has made appropriate investments in education, training and culture, clearly defining the goal: Taking culture and people as one of the five important pillars and the driving force for the development of the Capital.

Comrade Nguyen Van Phong, Permanent Deputy Secretary of Hanoi Party Committee.

With the results achieved in the period of 2020-2025, culture has truly become a spiritual foundation, an endogenous driving force for sustainable development and improving the quality of people's lives. Hanoi has been affirming its role as a major cultural center of the country.

However, besides the achievements, there are still some shortcomings and limitations.

Despite many positive changes, the formation of Hanoian values faces many difficulties. Among them, a part of the youth still shows deviations in behavior, especially in cyberspace.

Cultural institutions and policies are not yet synchronized, lacking appropriate management tools for the times. Investment resources for culture are limited; socialization work faces difficulties. Cultural industry development is not commensurate with its potential.

The city has clearly identified the existing problems and is very receptive to receiving recommendations and suggestions from experts and people in the capital, thereby coming up with appropriate solutions.

The Hanoi Party Committee will continue to innovate its thinking and take more drastic actions to build a new era of Hanoi people - elegant, civilized, creative, integrated - worthy of the position of the thousand-year-old capital.

Reporter : In building modern Hanoians, education - especially cultural, moral and lifestyle education - plays a fundamental role. According to you, what experiences has the city drawn from combining intellectual education with traditional cultural education in schools and communities?

Comrade Nguyen Van Phong : In recent years, the City has proactively implemented many models and solutions to effectively integrate knowledge education and traditional cultural education in schools and communities, creating a foundation for the development of elegant, civilized, and culturally rich Hanoians. From that reality, many valuable lessons can be drawn from both theory and practice.

- The first, Hanoi clearly identifies that cultural education is not outside of intellectual education, but is the foundation of morality and identity. The core values of Hanoians such as "respecting loyalty - valuing etiquette - promoting learning" must be nurtured along with globalized knowledge.

- Second, creatively integrate traditional cultural education into the curriculum, while linking traditional education with practical experiences at relics, craft villages, and cultural spaces (practice-real learning-real feeling) to spread cultural education from schools to the community .

Kim Lan ancient pottery village is gradually becoming an attractive tourist destination. (Photo: DUC HIEP)

- Third, socialize traditional education through strengthening the close connection between school-family-society. Promote the role of community-family-artisan-press in cultural education.

- Fourth, take advantage of digital technology to modernize traditional cultural education.

Another important experience is that Hanoi always puts culture at the center of education, while ensuring that modern knowledge is not separated from traditional roots.

Artists take to the streets to perform at the Tourism Gift Festival, creating an attractive feature for the Festival. (Photo: GIANG NAM)

Reporter : The new era of development of the country with rapid urbanization, digital transformation, and globalization poses an urgent need to shape the new cultural identity of Hanoians. According to you, what are the core qualities that Hanoians need to preserve and what values need to be further cultivated to adapt to the times?

Comrade Nguyen Van Phong : In the context of digital transformation, globalization and increasingly rapid urbanization, Hanoi is facing an urgent need to clearly define the new cultural identity of Hanoians, both preserving traditional character and flexibly adapting to the times. Building elegant and civilized Hanoians is no longer a purely cultural task, but has become a fundamental factor in the strategy for developing a sustainable, modern capital with its own identity, internationally competitive and worthy of being the "heart of the whole country".

Irreplaceable core qualities, over thousands of years of history, Hanoi people have formed unique cultural qualities, which are both the "soul" of Thang Long-Hanoi and the quintessence of the countryside converging here. Of these, there are five core qualities that need to continue to be preserved and promoted, including elegance-civilization, intelligence-love of learning, humanity-responsibility-loyalty; sophistication-high aesthetics; national pride and the courage to integrate. In the era of openness and deep international integration, Hanoi people are not allowed to "dissolve". Receiving the quintessence of humanity must always go hand in hand with the awareness of preserving the national soul.

In addition to traditional core qualities, Hanoi is also proactively cultivating new values, contributing to shaping the new cultural identity of Hanoians to adapt to the digital age, in which, cultivating new values are: Responsibility, creativity, proactive adaptation. Spirit of innovation - ready to change thinking, methods, actions to catch up with global trends; Personal digital transformation capacity - knowing how to apply technology to study, work, life management; Global citizen mindset - living responsibly towards society, the environment, and the future of the Capital.

Reporter : What solutions will the city implement to meet the needs of the times in building culture and people of Hanoi in the era of development? What solutions are needed to improve communication culture, behavior and civic responsibility in the digital age?

Comrade Nguyen Van Phong : Entering a new era of development with the speed of urbanization, digital transformation and globalization becoming more and more profound, Hanoi is facing an urgent need: Building a modern Hanoian, but imbued with its identity. That is not only a cultural task, but also a long-term, sustainable development strategy of the City. To meet that requirement, Hanoi is synchronously implementing many specific solutions, focusing on the following 5 main groups:

- Firstly, promote education, propaganda and raise awareness of Hanoi people about the cultural values that create elegance and civilization, which are summarized through the thousand-year-old history of Thang Long-Hanoi. Pay attention to promoting the exemplary role of leaders, cadres and party members at all levels in practicing cultural and ethical standards, spreading the values of elegant and civilized Hanoians in the new era.

- Second, linking cultural development with human education from family, school to community. Integrating content on behavioral culture, history and traditions of Hanoi, especially in the digital cultural environment, cyberspace; lifestyle values, community awareness, awareness of compliance, respect for discipline and law into subjects and learning content at schools, levels and grades in the capital.

Thang Long Imperial Citadel becomes an attractive experience space for tourists of all ages during the Tourism Festival. (Photo: GIANG NAM)

- Third, perfect and effectively implement codes of conduct in public places to build the image of elegant and civilized Hanoians, research, develop and deploy codes of conduct in the digital environment.

- Fourth, promote the strong development of cultural industry and creative ecosystem. Along with that, accelerate digital transformation in the field of culture and education.

- Fifth, strengthen cultural diplomacy and spread the values of the Capital to the world.

Facing the trend of the times, Hanoi has been having solutions to improve the culture of communication, behavior and sense of responsibility of the capital's citizens in the digital age, specifically:

- Firstly, promote propaganda, education, and raise people's awareness of cultural attitudes and behaviors in cyberspace.

- Second, supplement and perfect regulations, management rules, and behavioral culture when using cyberspace.

- Third, proactively spread official, positive, and reliable information to the people of the capital, especially students, union members, and young people of the capital.

- Fourth, arouse the right motivation for the people of the capital in developing a culture of behavior in cyberspace.

- Fifth, strictly and promptly handle and impose sanctions on individuals and organizations whose attitudes and behaviors violate cyberspace culture in the capital.

Building a culture of behavior and communication in the context of the digital age, especially in cyberspace today, is a necessary task, thereby contributing to building and developing cultural values, the people of the Capital in particular, and the Vietnamese people in general, fostering beautiful ways of life, nurturing noble ideals, helping people reach the standards of truth-goodness-beauty, constantly perfecting their personalities, contributing to building a civilized and modern society, meeting the requirements and tasks of building and protecting the socialist Vietnamese Fatherland in the new era.

Reporter : Could you please tell us what breakthrough solutions the city will implement in the coming time to build Hanoians who are not only elegant and civilized, but also brave, creative, ready to integrate and spread the good values of the capital in the country and to the world?

Comrade Nguyen Van Phong: To realize the goal of building elegant, civilized, comprehensively developed Hanoians with courage, creativity, dynamism, spreading the good values of the Capital throughout the country and the world, Hanoi has been implementing many groups of breakthrough solutions:

- Developing cultural industry and creative spaces according to Resolution 09-NQ/TU, making culture an important soft resource, contributing to the City's GRDP by 2025 and the following years.

- Integrating cultural education with intellectual education in schools: Bringing Hanoi's cultural values into the curriculum; promoting extracurricular activities about the capital's traditions; building a "green, civilized, creative school".

- Strengthen cultural diplomacy, promote the image of Hanoi people internationally through exchange activities, exhibitions, seminars, digital platforms, etc.

- Applying digital transformation in cultural management and dissemination: Digitizing heritage, building Hanoi's cultural knowledge system on cyberspace, connecting young creative communities.

- Institutional and policy breakthroughs to support culture. Hanoi has implemented policies in the cultural field, creating a legal corridor and policy mechanisms to promote cultural development, including: The Capital Law 2024, creating a legal corridor for experimental models of innovation, startups, and technology transfer; Program 06-CTr/TU: Putting Hanoi's culture and people as important endogenous resources for development.

- Spreading the model of modern Hanoi citizens. The formation of the model of "New-age Hanoians" is not only aimed at sustainable development of the capital, but also has the meaning of spreading Vietnamese values to the world. Hanoians are both the preservers of the national cultural soul and digital citizens, global citizens - integrated but not assimilated, modern but still preserving their identity.

It is a harmonious combination of “traditional beauty” and “modern values”; between polite behavior and innovative thinking; between Thang Long’s character and the aspiration to reach out to the world.

Hanoi today is a living symbol of modern Vietnamese culture.

Building elegant, civilized, brave, creative, and integrated Hanoians is creating an important endogenous driving force for the Capital to firmly step forward in its journey to affirm its position as the heart of the whole country, a place where the best values of the Vietnamese people crystallize and spread, a place where global values converge and connect.

Reporter: Thank you very much, comrade!

HA THANH

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