Reporters from the Da Nang Newspaper recently interviewed some of the delegates at the ongoing 21^st Congress of the Da Nang Party Committee (PC) to find out what the city should do to develop high-quality human resources and boost the local culture for the sake of the city’s future progress.

The Director of the University of Da Nang, Professor Tran Van Nam, expressed his hope that the city authorities will issue more incentive policies for training high-quality human resources.  He remarked that the development of high-quality human resources locally would create a strong momentum for fulfilling local tasks well.  

An impressive Tuong street performance

He also explained that the city’s labour market, with its high-quality human resources, would make both domestic and foreign businesses feel more secure about investing in the city.  This is particularly important because Viet Nam will integrate into the Association of South-East Asian Nations Economic Community (AEC) on 31 December 2015, and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement will come into effect in the near future.  Given the context of deeper economic global integration, the development of local high-quality human resources will help the city enhance its competitiveness in international markets.

The former Chairman of the city’s Union of Literature and Art Associations, poet Bui Cong Minh, affirmed that culture has created a firm spiritual foundation for the society which has boosted the development of the city’s economy and human resources and local security has been ensured.  He also stressed the need for local artists to make every effort to improve the quality of their arts performances.

The Vice Chairman of the city’s Union of Literature and Arts Associations and Chairman of the municipal Artistic Photography Association, photographer Ong Van Sinh, suggested that greater importance should be paid to promoting the development of local literature and arts.  Even more favourable conditions should be created for local writers, artists and photographers to widely introduce their works to art lovers.  This will create an incentive for them to enhance their creativeness in order to improve the quality of local literature and arts activities.  

Artist Nguyen Trung Ky from the city’s Fine Arts Museum said he hoped that more documents and artifacts for display at the museum should continue to be collected from individuals and organisations at home and abroad.  Once the museum opens its doors to the public, more activities including exhibitions and creative painting camps should be organised to satisfy the increasing demand for cultural values from both local residents and visitors. 

He also remarked that the museum, which will become one of the city’s key cultural attractions, will help preserve and promote the cultural values of fine arts heritages in the city and in the south-central localities.