This was the evaluation of Minister of Science and Technology Vu Hai Quan on the assembly between Prime Minister Le Minh Hung and the Standing Committee of Hanoi City Party Committee on June 11.
Specifically, the 5 important benefits are the high-level political consideration and willpower from the town’s management; more and more improved establishments, with the Capital City Law and superior insurance policies; and enormous monetary sources able to investing in long-term and large-scale projects.
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| Prime Minister Le Minh Hung chaired the assembly. Photo: The MST |
Furthermore, Hanoi has a high-quality workforce, with a focus of main universities and analysis institutes nationwide; it additionally has ample area, infrastructure, and land to implement actions associated to sci-tech and digital transformation.
With these benefits, the minister proposed coordination between the Ministry of Science and Technology and Hanoi in implementing projects beneath a 40-40-20 investment model (central authorities, Hanoi, and enterprises). The focus could be on creating strategic applied sciences, supporting tech startups, and constructing key analysis, testing, and laboratory centres.
Hanoi is encouraging the formation of an innovation ecosystem, fostering a managed testing mechanism for level-4 autonomous transportation know-how, opening up area to advertise know-how commercialisation, and accelerating the implementation of a managed testing mechanism for digital know-how services.
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| Minister of Science and Technology Vu Hai Quan. Photo: The MST |
The acceleration in implementation of a managed testing mechanism (sandbox) for digital know-how services goals to create a beneficial atmosphere for innovation and promote digital transformation. This is without doubt one of the options to concretise the central authorities’s main insurance policies on the event of sci-tech, innovation, and digital transformation.
Simultaneously, it entails the implementation of the Law on Digital Technology Industry 2025, the Law on Science, Technology and Innovation 2025, and the federal government’s Decree 353/2025/ND-CP detailing some provisions and measures for organizing and guiding the implementation of the Law on Digital Technology Industry.
In the context of the speedy emergence of many new applied sciences and enterprise fashions with out a full authorized framework, the sandbox mechanism is carried out to create a protected testing area for companies, whereas additionally offering regulatory companies with extra sensible foundation to refine insurance policies.
In May, the Hanoi Department of Science and Technology established an analysis council to permit managed testing of the proposed ‘Level 4 Autonomous Passenger Transport System’, which incorporates mini-buses, robotaxis, and numerous kinds of cargo autos in managed visitors zones, submitted by Phenikaa-X JSC.
Implementing this managed testing mechanism will contribute to making a sensible basis for the analysis, utility, and growth of good transportation options in Hanoi sooner or later, progressively bringing the capital metropolis nearer to the purpose of changing into a sensible and fashionable metropolis.
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| Remote monitoring of supply robots. Photo: The MST |
Furthermore, the HITCHub innovation area kicked off at Hoa Lac High-Tech Park in Hanoi in May will even contribute to boosting analysis, incubation, testing, and commercialisation of know-how in Hanoi.
Le Thanh Son, deputy head of the Management Board of High-Tech Zones and Industrial Parks in Hanoi, stated that Hoa Lac High-Tech Park goals to develop right into a high high-tech, innovation, and startup centre within the nation, with a growth orientation in direction of 2030 and a imaginative and prescient in direction of 2045, including that Hanoi has decided that to attain breakthroughs, it should depend on sci-tech, innovation, and digital transformation.
“For innovation and development to be truly effective, we need to form a sufficiently strong, open, and interconnected ecosystem between the government, schools, businesses, and investors. HITC Hub was built to achieve that goal,” he famous.
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