Despite the negative impacts of COVID-19 pandemic, in 2020, Nha Trang City carried out many cultural and art activities to improve the spiritual life of the local people.
Despite the negative impacts of COVID-19 pandemic, in 2020, Nha Trang City carried out many cultural and art activities to improve the spiritual life of the local people.
At the beginning of 2020, Nha Trang held a three-day unicorn-lion-dragon dance contest joined by 17 teams of 27 communes and wards in the city. After that, the city organized a night folk music festival for four days and a series of music shows to mark the 90th founding anniversary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (February 3, 1930-2020) and the 90th founding anniversary of the Communist Party of Khanh Hoa Province (February 24, 1930-2020).
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The city Center for Culture - Information and Sports held a culture-music exchange for the cultural clubs in the city on the occasion of Lunar New Year, and an exchange for the music clubs of the communes and wards on the 130th birth anniversary of President Ho Chi Minh. The center also held the city’s 21st public music festival to choose the members for the city music and art team.
Most of the communes and wards organized cultural and art activities to celebrate Lunar New Year 2020. The localities over the city managed to hold 74 cultural and music shows to mark the grass roots Communist Party congresses.
Last year, Nha Trang City also got many positive results in building cultural life in communities. Specifically, 89% of hamlets and residential groups were recognized as cultural residential areas; 92% of households were honored as cultural families; eight wards satisfied the criteria for urban civilization; 115 weddings and 1,924 out of 1,930 funerals were held in civilized ways.
Under the directions of the city People's Committee on handling advertising violating regulations, the functional agencies and localities inspected, handled and penalized the violations, collected VND36,600,000 fine. In addition, the city's cultural-information interdisciplinary inspection team inspected 170 business establishments and discovered 12 ones violating regulations on culture and advertising; coordinated with the local people's committees to inspect and supervise 220 karaoke establishments, public internet places, discos, bars, etc. to ensure the compliance with the regulations on temporary closure during COVID-19 outbreak.
Besides the positive results, there were still shortcomings in directing and managing the operations of cultural, information and advertising establishments. In 2021, the city’s culture sector will try to organize well the cultural activities as planned and strengthen the management in the fields of culture, information and advertising, according to Tran Thanh Nha, deputy head of Nha Trang City Bureau of Culture and Information.
Giang Đinh
Translated by H.N
