Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and students of Military University of Culture and Arts. (Photo: VNS)

Hanoi (VNA) – Prime Minister Pham Minh
Chinh urged the Hanoi-based Military University of Culture and Arts to play a
more active role in preserving and developing the traditional culture
sustainably while visiting the university on January 31.  

The PM highlighted the Party’s guidelines and
policies on culture which has significantly contributed to the struggle for national
liberation in the past, as well as the present rapid, sustainable national
development.

The Vietnam People’s Army (VPA) is a pioneer in cultural
preservation and promotion, he said, adding that the university has played a
role in the development of culture and arts of the army and the country as well.

Pointing to a host of challenges to cultural
conservation, Chinh asked the university to thoroughly grasp the Party’s
viewpoint that culture is the spiritual foundation of society, the
objective, the intrinsic strength, and the important momentum for the nation to
move ahead.

The educational institution was also urged to organise
high-quality, modern art programmes, and produce more art works with high values
in terms of ideology, arts and culture, contributing to promoting Vietnamese
culture abroad.

The leader also emphasised the importance of
information-technology and digital transformation to teaching, saying the
university should pay more attention to the training of teachers and managers,
and Party building.

Over the past nearly 70 years, the university has strived
to overcome difficulties to complete the task of training artists and musicians
for the army.

It trained nearly 5,000 students over the past decade,
and compiled and published hundreds of documents on culture and arts over the
past five years./.