PM calls for more efforts to preserve, promote heritages
(VOVWORLD) - Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc attended a meeting on preserving and promoting Vietnam’s cultural heritages for sustainable development in Hanoi on Friday. Other attendees included Vo Van Thuong, Head of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for Communications and Education, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam, and chief representative of UNESCO Office in Vietnam Michael Croft.
 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc (C) addressed a meeting on preserving and promoting Vietnam’s cultural heritages for sustainable development in Hanoi on July 27, 2018 (Photo: Fatherland newspaper) |
PM Phuc told participants that heritage preservation and promotion is the responsibility of ministries and localities: “Heritage is a valuable endowment of nature or essence of our predecessors’ creativity generation after generation. We should understand that anything can be built, produced, and created, but heritage cannot be created. That’s why we shouldn’t damage or exchange heritage for any reason to serve development. Losing heritage, though a part of it, is shooting into the past and losing national identity.”
The Prime Minister called for creativity and dynamism to make heritage value linger in today’s life and education of heritage to inspire national pride and self-respect.