Paris, Jan. 12 -- The 14th National Party Congress is expected to continue to firmly affirm the role of culture, treating it as a key pillar in the country's sustainable development strategy for the new period, according to an overseas Vietnamese living in France.

Speaking to a Vietnam News Agency correspondent in Paris, Hoang Thu Trang, founder and president of Art Space, a non-profit organisation established in 2018 to promote Vietnamese culture to French and international audiences and foster community-based cultural, educational and art projects, said the cultural industries should be placed at the centre of development. They should not be seen as a supporting sector, she said, but as a socio-economic industry capable of generating l...