The seminar was held by the Department of National Culture under the Ministry of Culture and Information.

Reports at the seminar found that cultural values have fallen into oblivion and face the risk of vanishing due to the poor living standards and spiritual lives of ethnic people.

In recent years, relevant agencies have restored some traditional folk festivals of ethnic minority groups, namely the Cham, Khmer, Thai, Muong and Mong. The languages of some ethnic groups have also been used in radio, television broadcasts and some newspapers.

Many cultural exchange activities are still popular among ethnic minority groups such as folklore recitals, folk music, song and dance festivals and the Central Highlands epics contests.

Recently, the Ministry of Culture and Information has allocated funds from the national cultural programme to restore eight traditional ethnic minority groups festivals.