The Standing Board of the provincial Party Committee has issued Conclusion 1062 on the review of the three-year implementation of Resolution 04, issued on October 11, 2021 by the Standing Board, on the preservation and promotion of cultural heritage values of ethnic groups in Hoa Binh province in the 2021 - 2025 period, with orientation towards 2030.
Ethnic groups’ cultural heritage values to be preserved, promoted more effectively.
Accordingly,
to continue effectively performing the tasks and targets set in Resolution 04,
the Standing Board demanded promoting Party committees and administrations’
leadership over the preservation and promotion of cultural heritage values.
They need to direct reviewing the implementation of the targets under
Resolution 04 to ensure effective preservation and promotion of local ethnic
groups’ cultural heritage values in the coming period as in accordance with the
Hoa Binh provincial Master Plan for 2021 - 2030, with a vision to 2050.
All-level authorities and sectors need to press on with efforts to realise
specific targets to uphold and bring into play ethnic groups’ cultural heritage
values while at the same time developing a model for heritage preservation and
promotion clubs at the grassroots level.
It is also important to properly plan and manage relic sites, assign management
and protection tasks to the communal-level localities that are home to
heritage, enhance state management activities, and boost communications to
introduce and popularise the Muong ethnic culture and the Hoa Binh
Civilisation.
In addition, the Standing Board asked for continuing to reform activities of
the Vietnam Fatherland Front as well as socio-political organistions, and
improving their role in the preservation and promotion of ethnic groups’
cultural heritage values.
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The provincial Department of Culture, Sports, and Tourism on December 24 organised a conference to report on the results of collecting, researching, restoring, and preserving "Bi doi”, a musical instrument of the airophonic family and a traditional instrument of the Muong ethnic people in Da Bac district.