HANOI- “CREATIVE INFRASTRUCTURE”

04/05/2023 Introduction

Hanoi has a lot of creative potentials from the capital’s cultural and human resources, and the opportunity to develop the “Creative City” brand. Besides maintaining its traditional identity, Hanoi is becoming an “incubator” for creativity across the country and especially attracts young people.
With 5,922 cultural and historical relics, 1,793 intangible cultural heritages, 169 national treasures, 1,350 craft villages, Hanoi becomes a place to nurture, converge and promote creative inspiration to spread in the world. society. It is an endogenous resource, an important soft power for Hanoi to create and develop its culture, adding new vitality and creativity to the community. With the advantage of rich and diverse cultural capital, Hanoi capital is gradually developing strongly cultural industries.

People have fun in the pedestrian area of Hoan Kiem Lake.

Since joining UNESCO’s Creative Cities Network, Hanoi has always strived to implement initiatives and solutions to promote creative potential as a development resource; effectively implement the city’s commitments with UNESCO.

In recent years, the policy of socializing cultural activities has brought positive results to the cultural sector. The policy of socialization has become the driving force to promote the development of cultural activities, to meet the increasing demand for creativity and enjoyment of cultural values of all classes of people, contributing to the implementation of tasks. building an advanced Vietnamese culture imbued with national identity in the current international integration context.

Besides maintaining its traditional identity, Hanoi is becoming an “incubator” for creativity across the country and especially attracts young people. The large number of young projects aiming at diverse cultural colors of the Capital with a unique approach is a clear proof of that potential.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the digital economy create favorable opportunities for the cultural development of the Capital, helping us to exploit the economic potential of culture in the digital environment, creating favorable conditions for benefits for participating in the global value chain of science – technology development and innovation.

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According to Master Le Thi Trang – Institute of Culture and Development, Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics, the roadmap to turn cultural potentials into opportunities in developing Hanoi’s “Creative City” brand is still possible. many difficulties and challenges, especially the issue of mobilizing social resources.

Although the participation of all social sectors in cultural and artistic creative activities of Hanoi Capital has been expanded, the social community has not really become a co-constructor of culture together. with the state. The policy to encourage investment in culture has not met the needs and is not commensurate with the role and cultural position of the Capital when placed in the perspective of sustainable development.

Challenges from the multi-dimensional, multi-benefit, multi-subject relationship in the process of socialization associated with the development orientation of “Creative City”. This is considered a core issue in terms of mobilizing resources to participate in creating new cultural values, contributing to the development of cultural industries of the Capital. Challenges from maintaining and developing creative cultural spaces.

Hanoi has been trying to find a suitable breakthrough path, take advantage of opportunities, promote strengths, limit weaknesses, and overcome challenges to develop the Creative City brand. The big goal of Hanoi in the near future is to become the “Creative Capital” of Southeast Asia, contributing to making Hanoi capital one of the cultural “bright spots” of the region and the world. gender.

According to Master Le Thi Trang from the Institute of Culture and Development, Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics, an important element to this vision is the capture and promotion of cultural and creative industries. . To do that, Hanoi needs to focus on a number of directions: First, mobilizing private investors to participate in the cultural industry, by creating a market for the cultural industry, building develop appropriate incentive policies and a clear and attractive plan for each creative economy sector.

Attracting and supporting investment, the City aims to plan and arrange land funds and investment resources of the State and non-State for high-quality cultural development works and projects, in which priority is given to investment projects. develop public space, cultural tourist attractions, entertainment, performing arts, street-walking space, shopping spots, expand to create cultural space for the community.

At the same time, Hanoi city needs to focus on forming and strongly developing a network of young creative designers – Hanoi’s abundant, potential and available human resources…

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