Addressing the primary congress of the ministry’s Party group for the 2025–2030 time period on Saturday, PM Chinh, who can also be a Politburo member and Secretary of the Government’s Party Commitee, frankly identified a number of shortcomings.
These embrace the sluggish tempo of science and expertise growth, innovation, and nationwide digital transformation, with no main breakthroughs; a major hole in scientific and technological capability in comparison with developed international locations; the shortage of mastery in strategic and core applied sciences; shortages of high-quality human assets; and persistent challenges in info safety and information safety.
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Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh speaks on the first congress of the Ministry of Science and Technology’s Party group for the 2025–2030 time period in Hanoi, Aug. 16, 2025. Photo by Dinh Tung |
Analyzing the worldwide scenario, particularly the explosive progress of science and expertise in fields like AI, semiconductors, huge information, the Internet of Things, biotechnology, new power, and the worldwide tendencies of inexperienced and digital transition, Chinh famous that underneath the management of Party General Secretary To Lam, the Politburo just lately issued the “Four Pillars,” together with Resolution No. 57 on growing science, expertise, innovation, and digital transformation.
To implement this decision, it’s important to excellent the institutional framework; take away obstacles to the event of science, expertise, innovation, and digital transformation; guarantee equal entry to assets; and encourage a broad motion to advance science, expertise, and innovation, with the guideline of science and expertise as the muse; innovation because the driving drive; digital transformation because the connector; and individuals as the middle, the topic, the driving drive, and the useful resource of growth, based on Chinh.
Highlighting the particular place and function of the science and tech ministry, the PM emphasised that the fields underneath its administration are all crucial areas with breakthrough potential, succesful of main the nation towards exceptional, fast progress in this new period.
He requested its Party group to concentrate on Party constructing, strengthening management capability and fight readiness, and enhancing the standard of Party members.
He additionally confused the necessity to prioritize all assets for finishing draft legal guidelines on science, expertise, and innovation, together with the Law on Intellectual Property, the Law on Technology Transfer, and the Law on Artificial Intelligence (AI).
PM Chinh additionally requested that the ministry set up mechanisms, insurance policies, and options to encourage various funding assets in science, expertise, innovation and digital transformation, particularly personal funding.
He urged stronger growth and mastery of strategic and core applied sciences, with precedence given to such fields as AI, robotics, semiconductors, huge information, biotechnology, and new power.
At the congress, Minister of Science and Technology Nguyen Manh Hung was re-assigned as Secretary of the ministry’s Party Committee for the 2025–2030 time period.