Vietnam and China to boost joint research and high-tech training

During a state go to to China by General Secretary and State President To Lam on April 15, Vietnamese Minister of Science and Technology Vu Hai Quan met with leaders of the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology to focus on joint research, cooperation fashions, and excessive‑high quality workforce training.

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Efforts to strengthen the Joint Committee on Science and Technology in coordinating, connecting, and eradicating boundaries have been mentioned, alongside the identification of precedence areas with potential for innovation and excessive added worth.

Establishing a government-level cooperation mechanism for strategic applied sciences was additionally on the agenda, with the goal of making a listing of precedence applied sciences for bilateral collaboration.

Sharing experiences in managing rising applied sciences – comparable to AI and information – to promote managed acceptance was one other focus, together with fostering a world research funding community and a mechanism for mutual recognition of scientific analysis.

In research and training, enhancing capabilities in core applied sciences linked to high-quality employees is a precedence. A mannequin of joint laboratories linked to postgraduate training was mentioned.

Under this mannequin, joint research centres will conduct research in key laboratories, take part in postgraduate training, and goal for joint diploma programs. Plans additionally embrace establishing a joint research fund with versatile funding mechanisms, bettering connectivity, information sharing, and laboratory infrastructure, and organising in-depth worldwide scientific boards to promote higher-level cooperation.

On human useful resource training, actions primarily based on a project-based mannequin have been mentioned, permitting trainees to immediately take part in Vietnam-China tasks in fields comparable to AI, vitality, new supplies, and good cities. China would deal with core expertise training, whereas Vietnam would deal with testing and software.

A mechanism for ‘transplanting’ consultants and sturdy research teams was additionally mentioned, whereby main research teams may come to Vietnam for six to 24 months to kind joint research groups, immediately linked to expertise switch tasks or the development of manufacturing traces.

Collaborative schemes alongside the research-transfer-production chain have been additionally mentioned, aiming to assist Vietnamese scientists take part in research in China and later implement purposes domestically, whereas supporting companies in accessing expertise commercialisation.

On innovation and ecosystem improvement, each side agreed to shift cooperation from expertise switch to joint research and improvement of core applied sciences. The focus might be business-oriented, selling commercialisation of research outcomes, increasing pilot manufacturing cooperation, and collectively creating merchandise for the widespread market.

Strengthening participation in expertise switch boards, sharing expertise in constructing coverage mechanisms, and bettering innovation instruments – together with mechanisms for choosing science and expertise awards – have been additionally on the agenda.

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