Implementing Program No. 06-CTr/TU, term 2020-2025: Turning the Capital into a Globally Connected City:

A highlight in the implementation of Program No. 06-CTr/TU of the City Party Committee on "Cultural development, improving the quality of human resources, building elegant and civilized Hanoians in the period of 2021-2025" is the issuance of Resolution No. 09-NQ/TU on developing cultural industries in the capital for the period of 2021-2025, oriented to 2030, vision to 2045.

Thereby, affirming the determination to turn Hanoi into a cultural industrial center of the region, contributing to enhancing the prestige and position of the capital domestically and internationally.

Hanoi Tourism Ao Dai Festival 2024. Photo: HNM

Strategic vision in cultural development

Throughout the implementation of Program No. 06-CTr/TU, the development of cultural industry has always received special attention from Hanoi City. Standing Deputy Secretary of the Hanoi Party Committee Nguyen Van Phong, Head of the Steering Committee of Program No. 06-CTr/TU, always affirmed that the development of cultural industry is placed in the overall context and based on the foundation of developing Vietnamese culture and people in general and the capital Hanoi in particular. Developing cultural industry is a condition to maximize cultural and human resources. At the same time, it creates endogenous strength, an important driving force for the sustainable development of the capital.

Hanoi is the first locality in the country to issue a separate resolution - Resolution No. 09-NQ/TU on the development of cultural industry in the capital for the period 2021-2025, with a vision to 2030 and a vision to 2045. The resolution demonstrates Hanoi's determination and strategic vision in developing cultural industry into a key economic sector, contributing to realizing the goal of rapid and sustainable development of the capital.

The Resolution sets out clear and specific goals for each time period. Accordingly, by 2025, the capital's cultural industry will become an important economic sector, creating a new driving force to promote economic, cultural and social development; maintaining and developing the brand of the thousand-year-old capital, "City for Peace", "Creative City".

The city also determined to focus on developing industries and cultural industrial products with available advantages, such as: Cultural tourism, handicrafts, performing arts, design, cuisine, software and entertainment games. At the same time, pay attention to developing industries: Advertising, architecture, cinema, television and radio, publishing, fashion...

By 2030, the capital's cultural industry will basically become a spearhead economic sector; Hanoi will be among the cities with the most developed cultural industry in the region... By 2045, Hanoi will become a "Creative City" of Asia, a globally connected city, a large, unique cultural and tourist center with international competitiveness; striving to contribute about 10% of the Gross Regional Domestic Product (GRDP).

Assessing Hanoi's strategy in developing cultural industries, Associate Professor Dr. Pham Quang Long, former Director of the Hanoi Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism (now the Hanoi Department of Culture and Sports) said that with a strategic vision for socio-economic development, the Party committees and the Hanoi city government quickly agreed on viewpoints, guidelines and policies for developing cultural industries. That has helped Hanoi seize opportunities in terms of market potential, national culture, science and technology, and cultural industry development experiences of countries around the world... to develop cultural industries with their own identities.

According to Associate Professor Dr. Bui Hoai Son, Member of the National Assembly's Committee on Culture and Society, with its position as the political, cultural, educational and scientific center of the country, Hanoi's issuance of separate resolutions for the development of cultural industries shows the determination and strategic vision of Hanoi's leaders in turning culture into an important resource for the development of the capital. With its existing advantages along with the methodical development strategy of the past term and the efforts and endeavors in the coming term, Hanoi has many foundations and conditions to become the cultural center of the region.

Realizing the vision

In fact, over the past 5 years, Hanoi has made significant changes in the development of cultural industry, gradually turning culture into a new resource for the development of the capital. Some key areas have shown strong breakthroughs, such as: Performance, fashion, exhibition, cinema, cultural tourism...

In the performance field, after the success of entertainment programs such as "Anh trai vu ngan cong gai" and "Anh trai say hi", there has been the rise of large-scale music festivals that are considered national-scale music festivals (national concerts), with elaborate investments on par with the region.

According to director Hoang Cong Cuong, the large-scale entertainment programs recently held in Hanoi have had artistic quality, investment level and staging that meet regional standards, showing that Hanoi is gradually affirming its position as a major performing arts center. Along with the improved artistic quality, the formation of international standard theaters such as the Hoan Kiem Theater, and the upcoming Hanoi Opera House on West Lake... are the basis for Hanoi to confidently become a destination for large-scale artistic events.

In the field of fashion and cinema, Hanoi also shows a breakthrough when it is the host of many major events, such as: Hanoi International Film Festival, Vietnam International Fashion Week... In the field of exhibitions, the putting into use of the Vietnam Exhibition Center (in Dong Anh commune) with a scale of more than 900,000m², the most modern exhibition, economic and cultural complex in the region, in the top 10 largest exhibition centers in the world and the largest in Southeast Asia today, has brought great opportunities for the Capital to become an exhibition center, organizing large-scale cultural, economic and tourism events in the region.

According to the report of the Steering Committee of Program 06-CTr/TU on the implementation results in the 2021-2025 term, Hanoi advocates developing cultural industries associated with positioning new brands, implementing commitments to join the UNESCO Creative Cities network in the field of creative design. To realize this, Hanoi has participated in activities on developing cultural industries at home and abroad; built over 200 creative cultural spaces... Hanoi has also built cultural industrial products associated with technology at Ngoc Son Temple, Temple of Literature - Quoc Tu Giam, West Lake Light Festival...

Hanoi has also consecutively received the awards “Vietnam’s Leading Cultural Destination”, “Asia’s Leading City Destination 2024”, “Asia’s Leading Short-Term City Destination 2024” by the World Travel Awards for the third consecutive time in 2022, 2023, 2024 and many other awards. Thereby, affirming the position, image and brand of Hanoi’s culture and tourism in the international arena.

Following Resolution No. 09-NQ/TU, to realize the goals of developing cultural industry, taking culture as a new resource for the development of the Capital, recently, the Hanoi People's Committee has had a Plan to implement Resolution No. 24/2025/NQ-HDND dated July 10, 2025 of the City People's Council regulating the organization and operation of cultural industry centers in Hanoi and a Plan to implement Resolution No. 25/2025/NQ-HDND dated July 10, 2025 of the City People's Council on commercial and cultural development zones in Hanoi. The plans set out specific tasks to develop Hanoi into a cultural and commercial industrial center of the country and the region.

According to Associate Professor Dr. Bui Hoai Son, Member of the National Assembly's Committee on Culture and Society, Hanoi's issuance of Resolution No. 24/2025/NQ-HDND and Resolution No. 25/2025/NQ-HDND shows the city's efforts and determination in concretizing actions to develop new creative cultural spaces, turning cultural resources into a driving force for the capital's development in the era of rising up. These quick and timely decisions also show the consistency and continuity of the city's leadership, closely following the spirit of the draft Political Report of the 17th City Party Executive Committee at the 18th Congress of the Hanoi Party Committee with the theme "Promoting the thousand-year tradition of civilization and heroism, solidarity, bravery, and creativity; pioneering in rising up with the nation, building a civilized and modern capital, happy people".

It can be seen that, along with Program 06-CTr/TU, the issuance of resolutions on cultural industry development and cultural development strategies in recent times clearly demonstrates Hanoi's strong determination in realizing its strategic vision, which is to turn culture into a new resource for development. This is also the consistent orientation of the city's leaders over many terms and will continue to be inherited and promoted more strongly in the coming term.

Source: https://hanoimoi.vn/thuc-hien-chuong-trinh-so-06-ctr-tu-nhiem-ky-2020-2025-dua-thu-do-tro-thanh-pho-ket-noi-toan-cau-bai-cuoi-de-ha-noi-tro-thanh-tam-cong-nghiep-van-hoa-hang-dau-khu-vuc-718942.html