Participants embrace members of the Ministry’s Steering Committee on the development of science and expertise, innovation, digital transformation and Project 06, representatives of items underneath the Ministry, in addition to a number of institutes and enterprises working in the trade and commerce sector.
Le Manh Hung, Acting Minister of Industry and Trade and Head of the Steering Committee, chairs the convention.
Reporting at the convention, Nguyen Thi Lam Giang, Director General of the Agency for Innovation, Green Transition and Industry Promotion, says that Resolution No. 57-NQ/TW dated December 22, 2024, issued by the Politburo on breakthroughs in the development of science and expertise, innovation and nationwide digital transformation, is being carried out by the Ministry of Industry and Trade in a immediate, resolute and complete method all through 2025. Leadership and course in implementing the Resolution are carried out in a synchronized manner throughout the sector, initially producing clear and constructive shifts in consciousness and motion.
Nguyen Thi Lam Giang, Director General of the Agency for Innovation, Green Transition and Industry Promotion, delivers a report at the convention.
In 2025, the Ministry focuses on reaching breakthroughs in institutional enchancment, growing and refining the system of authorized normative paperwork to advertise science and expertise development, innovation and digital transformation. Assigned duties are intently carried out, with many key contents accomplished, thereby laying a stable basis for the sector-wide digital transformation course of. Notably, the implementation of Resolution No. 57-NQ/TW in 2025 information quite a few outstanding and complete outcomes throughout all three pillars: institutional enchancment, digital transformation, and the development of science, expertise and innovation.
In phrases of institutional frameworks and coverage mechanisms, the Ministry actively participates in growing and refining the nationwide authorized framework on science, expertise and innovation, whereas promptly issuing guiding paperwork for the implementation of the Resolution and the 2025 Law on Science, Technology and Innovation. In the subject of digital transformation and e-commerce, the Ministry takes the lead in drafting and submitting the E-Commerce Law, which is handed by the National Assembly on December 10, 2025, offering an necessary authorized basis for the development of the digital economic system. At the identical time, the Ministry advises and submits to the National Assembly a quantity of key legal guidelines, together with the Law on Chemicals and the amended Law on Economical and Efficient Use of Energy, with science, expertise, innovation and digital transformation deeply built-in throughout sectors and fields underneath its administration.
Khieu Ngoc Sang, Director of the Office of the Ministry of Industry and Trade.
Regarding digital transformation and administrative process reform, the Ministry of Industry and Trade ranks first amongst ministries and ministerial-level companies in the index measuring service provision for residents and companies in dealing with administrative procedures and delivering public companies. By the finish of 2025, the Ministry offers 224 on-line public companies, with greater than 99% of dossiers obtained and processed completely on-line, and processes over 640,000 digital dossiers by the National Single Window and the ASEAN Single Window. Notably, the Certificate of Origin (C/O) Form D turns into Vietnam’s first digital doc to be formally exchanged with ASEAN nations, contributing considerably to commerce facilitation and worldwide financial integration.
In phrases of knowledge development and the digital economic system, the Ministry completes the building and operation of the Industrial and Trade Economic Database, making certain the ideas of “accurate, sufficient, clean and live” knowledge. It additionally completes knowledge connectivity and sharing with the Ministry of Finance on e-commerce actions one 12 months forward of schedule, supporting efforts to stop tax income losses. The development of the chemical database, along with chemical identification and traceability of chemical substances and precursors on the VNeID platform, is carried out in a synchronized method, able to serve state administration necessities whereas making certain safety and security.
Le Hoang Oanh, Director General of the Vietnam E-commerce and Digital Economy Agency.
In the subject of science, expertise and innovation, the Ministry points a plan to implement the record of strategic applied sciences, publicizes a listing of main challenges of the trade and commerce sector for Vietnamese digital expertise enterprises to deal with, and receives almost 400 proposals for science, expertise and innovation duties for the 2026 – 2030 interval. The restructuring and consolidation of the system of analysis institutes, the enhancement of analysis and expertise switch capability, and the development of high-quality human assets proceed to be carried out in keeping with a transparent, coherent and synchronized roadmap.
Agreeing with the report and acknowledging the discussions at the convention, Acting Minister Le Manh Hung extremely commends the efforts of the Ministry and the Steering Committee in implementing assigned duties. He underscores the significance and strategic significance of Resolution No. 57-NQ/TW in reworking the nation’s progress mannequin and the trade and commerce sector, and in selling industrial and business development in a contemporary, sustainable and deeply built-in course. Accordingly, the Acting Minister and Head of the Steering Committee requests that items establish particular goals for 2026 and the interval forward, intently aligned with the conclusions of the Central Steering Committee and grounded in sensible realities, adopting an method that strikes from the general to the particular, whereas making certain systemic coherence, continuity and clear orientation.
He additional emphasizes the want to make sure self-discipline and timeliness in implementing duties in the interval forward, whereas enhancing the effectiveness of coordination amongst items underneath the Ministry. In that spirit, Acting Minister Le Manh Hung expresses his confidence that the Steering Committee on the development of science and expertise, innovation, digital transformation and Project 06 of the Ministry of Industry and Trade will efficiently accomplish its assigned duties, thereby concretizing the implementation of Resolution No. 57-NQ/TW and creating new momentum for the progress and development of the sector in 2026 and subsequent intervals.
The convention additionally highlights that 2026 holds particular significance as the first 12 months of implementing the Resolution of the 14th National Party Congress, serving as a basis for the nation’s development in the interval forward. Notably, the Notice of Conclusions by General Secretary To Lam at the assembly reviewing 2025 efficiency and defining key duties and options for 2026 of the Central Steering Committee clearly states that 2026 is a 12 months to speed up the implementation of Resolution No. 57-NQ/TW, underneath the guideline of “Breakthrough action, widespread impact of results,” with a spotlight on producing concrete outcomes that make tangible contributions to nationwide development objectives.
In line with this directive, the formulation of the Ministry of Industry and Trade’s plan for the implementation of Resolution No. 57-NQ/TW in 2026 is renewed in a extra proactive, substantive and practice-oriented method, with the goal of enhancing the effectiveness of implementation throughout the total trade and commerce sector.