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The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee has issued directives to departments and agencies to urgently implement conclusions of Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Tran Luu Quang from a meeting with business community stakeholders operating in the cultural industry.
The city requires relevant units to research, advise, and create the most favorable conditions regarding mechanisms, capital, land, and administrative procedures to facilitate the participation of businesses and citizens in developing the cultural economy.
City leaders emphasized a spirit of “fair treatment” for all types of enterprises, regardless of scale, to build an open and transparent business environment and a healthy cultural ecosystem.
The Department of Finance is tasked to lead, in coordination with other units, to review the current stock of public land and properties and propose options for allocation and conversion of use to cultural institutions, creative spaces, and professional performing arts venues.
Units are also required to study plans to support training locations for traditional handicraft trades, with the aim of preserving and promoting craft villages and traditional trades while combining them with cultural tourism development and creating a future workforce for the sector.
In parallel, the Department of Finance will study and propose establishing a Cultural Industry Development Fund for the city, modeled after a venture fund, to provide capital for startup and innovation projects in the cultural-arts sector.
On infrastructure and technology, the People’s Committee directs the Department of Culture and Sports to coordinate with other units to study investment options for constructing a large-scale film-studio complex of about 100–150 hectares in the city to meet the development needs of the film and television industry and to attract high-quality film production projects domestically and internationally.
The city also calls for stronger measures to ensure effective enforcement of intellectual property rights and copyrights in the cultural industry, including prompt detection of violations to maintain a healthy creative environment and protect the legitimate rights and interests of artists, authors, and enterprises.
Departments are asked to actively coordinate to propose solutions to remove obstacles or petition the central government to amend laws that are no longer appropriate, with the goal of creating a more streamlined legal framework for the sustainable development of the cultural industry.
In addition to the film-studio project, the city directs departments to review and propose allocating public investment funds for key cultural facilities.
The Department of Culture and Sports is tasked to study and propose a plan to build the Vietnam Music Museum in Ho Chi Minh City, applying AI technology and digital transformation in collecting and displaying materials. The project is intended to preserve and present the essence of national music through modern interactive experiences, attracting the public—especially younger generations.
In the context of globalization and the growth of digital technology, the cultural industry is increasingly positioned as a key pillar of the creative economy in many countries.
In Vietnam, this direction is reflected in Resolution 80-NQ/TW, which aims for cultural industries to contribute about 7% of GDP by 2030.
The article also highlights film tourism as an area that has proven effective in many countries: films with broad appeal can generate box-office revenue while promoting the country’s image to international audiences, and can help create demand for real-world experiences.
The article cites box office successes of films including “Red Rain,” “The Underground: Sun in the Darkness,” and “Air Combat,” noting that audiences are increasingly drawn to well-invested productions with quality content and professional distribution strategies.
For 2025–2026, Vietnamese cinema is described as showing strong momentum. Market total revenue reached about 5,600 billion VND with over 70 million tickets sold, up 24% and 29% respectively from 2024. It also notes that domestic film revenue in 2025 alone equaled the size of the entire Vietnamese cinema market in 2018, indicating a breakout of domestic production.
Ho Chi Minh City is described as the country’s largest film hub, accounting for about 40% of market share, with more than 900 film-related enterprises and thousands of workers.
In 2025, Ho Chi Minh City was recognized by UNESCO as a Creative City in the film sector, becoming the first locality in Southeast Asia to receive this title. The article states that the recognition reflects creative capacity and creates opportunities to elevate Vietnam’s cinema regionally and internationally.
It also notes that Vietnam has four UNESCO Creative Cities Network members to date: Hanoi (design, 2019), Hoi An (crafts and folk art, 2023), Da Lat (music, 2023), and Ho Chi Minh City (film).
Experts cited in the article say that choosing cinema as an art form that integrates multiple arts can create both intangible cultural value and economic value, supporting the growth of cultural and creative industries in Ho Chi Minh City.
The article references Resolution 80-NQ/TW dated January 7, 2026, of the Politburo on developing Vietnamese culture, issued as Vietnam enters a new development phase with higher requirements for rapid and sustainable growth connecting economy, politics, society, culture, and people. It states that the vision for 2030 is to build a modern Vietnamese culture rooted in national identity, and by 2045 to build a socialist culture with people at the center and as the objective of development.
It also reports that GRDP for Q1/2026 in Ho Chi Minh City rose 8.27%, the highest in five years.
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