Highlighting the particular place and function of the MST, the Government chief emphasised that the fields below its administration are all essential areas with breakthrough potential, succesful of main the nation towards exceptional progress in this new period.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on August 16 referred to as on the Party organisation of the Ministry of Science and Technology (MST), its leaders, and employees to be pioneers in making use of and advancing science, expertise, innovation, and digital transformation, as these fields are the “inevitable path” for Vietnam to change into a developed and affluent nation.
Addressing the primary congress of the ministry’s Party organisation for the 2025–2030 time period, PM Pham Minh Chinh, who can be a Politburo member and Secretary of the Government’s Party Commitee, frankly identified a number of shortcomings, such because the sluggish tempo of science and expertise improvement, innovation, and nationwide digital transformation, with no main breakthroughs; a big hole in scientific and technological capability in comparison with developed international locations; the dearth of mastery in strategic and core applied sciences; shortages of high-quality human assets; and persistent challenges in data safety and knowledge safety.
Analysing the worldwide scenario, particularly the explosive development of science and expertise in fields like AI, semiconductors, massive knowledge, the Internet of Things, biotechnology, new vitality, and the worldwide traits of inexperienced and digital transition, he famous that below 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 limitations 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 inspiration; innovation because the driving pressure; digital transformation because the connector; and individuals because the centre, the topic, the driving pressure, and the useful resource of improvement, he confused.
Highlighting the particular place and function of the MST, the Government chief emphasised that the fields below its administration are all essential areas with breakthrough potential, succesful of main the nation towards exceptional, speedy progress in this new period.
In the approaching time, the PM requested its Party organisation to concentrate on Party constructing, strengthening management capability and fight readiness, and bettering the standard of Party members.He additionally confused the necessity to prioritise 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).
The PM additionally requested the Party organisation and the Ministry of Science and Technology to determine mechanisms, insurance policies, and options to encourage various funding assets in science, expertise, innovation, and digital transformation, particularly non-public funding.
He urged stronger improvement and mastery of strategic and core applied sciences, with precedence given to such fields as AI, robotics, semiconductors, massive knowledge, biotechnology, and new vitality.
At the congress, the Secretary of the Government Party Committee and PM offered the Decisions of the Government Party Committee assigning the MST’s Party Committee and its Standing Board for the 2025–2030 time period. 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.
VNA