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| General Secretary and President Tô Lâm visits the Singapore Railway Testing Centre. VNA/VNS Photo Thống Nhất |
SINGAPORE — General Secretary of the Communist Party of Việt Nam Central Committee and State President Tô Lâm, accompanied by a high-ranking Vietnamese delegation, on May 30 visited the Singaporean Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)’s Model Factory and the Singapore Rail Test Centre as a part of his state go to to Singapore.
At the A*STAR Model Factory, one in all Singapore’s flagship analysis and utility facilities for sensible business, innovation and digital transformation in manufacturing, General Secretary and President Lâm expressed his impression of Singapore’s method in creating circumstances for enterprises to straight test applied sciences earlier than making large-scale investments.
He described the mannequin as a extremely sensible development-oriented method in which the State shares preliminary dangers, enterprises are inspired to innovate boldly, and scientists work carefully with manufacturing and productiveness calls for. According to him, that is additionally the course Việt Nam is pursuing in its science and expertise insurance policies.
“If we choose only safety, there will be no breakthroughs,” he stated, noting that Việt Nam is bettering mechanisms to encourage accountable risk-taking in scientific analysis and expertise experimentation.
The Party and State leader affirmed that Việt Nam considers science, expertise, innovation and digital transformation as strategic drivers for speedy and sustainable improvement. He confused that the nation is working to enhance establishments, develop high-quality human sources and strengthen nationwide technological capabilities to take part extra deeply in international worth chains.
The nation can also be coming into a brand new stage of improvement with the aspiration of constructing a knowledge-, technology- and innovation-based economic system, recognising that speedy and sustainable development requires sturdy funding in science and expertise, human sources and superior manufacturing capabilities.
The prime leader, subsequently, expressed Việt Nam’s want to determine sensible expertise centres the place companies can entry specialists, test manufacturing processes and practice employees in real-world industrial environments, notably in supporting industries, semiconductors and excessive expertise.
He voiced his confidence that cooperation between Việt Nam and Singapore in synthetic intelligence, semiconductors, sensible manufacturing, innovation and hi-tech workforce coaching will proceed to increase strongly in the years forward.
Later, on the Singapore Rail Test Centre, the General Secretary and President visited its upkeep facility for metro techniques and described the centre as a precious reference mannequin for Việt Nam because the nation accelerates the event and operation of city railway networks.
He highlighted Singapore’s expertise in coaching native engineers able to independently sustaining, inspecting and overhauling core applied sciences, in addition to making use of digital transformation in upkeep operations to enhance effectivity and cut back prices. — VNA/VNS