Participation in building ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community

In 2015, ASEAN Community was offically established based on the three main pillars including Economic Community, Political-Security Community and and Socio-Cultural Community. ASEAN, the dynamic economic development area with 50% of population under 30 years old, the 3^rd largest economy in Asia and the 7^th largest in the world, has officially become a joint market, with the free movements of goods, services, investment, skilled labourers and capital flows.

To achieve this target, ASEAN Member States set out the particular actions such as promoting the development of cultural industries by cooperating and associating between Small and Medium Cultural Enterprises (SMCEs); training to improve capacity of small and medium cultural enterprises, broadening opportunities of cultural creativity and capacity improvement for the young people and all classes of the society, including ethnic minorities; enhancing marketing and distribution of cultural products and services; strengthening capacity of national institutions responsible for managing and developing cultural industries, creating jobs and commercializing local cultural products and services in domestic and international markets; encouraging the cooperation of cultural industries and economic creativity with ASEAN partner countries; encouraging the public-private cooperation, etc. In the framework of the ASEAN Committee for Culture and Information (ASEAN-COCI), some regional projects such as training on the roles of young people in the sustainable development of small and medium cultural enterprises, ASEAN art performing markets, enhancing a position of master handicraft designers of ASEAN… have been realised with the participation of managers; and young artists from 10 ASEAN countries.