Speaking at a gathering with the Vietnamese Innovation Network (VIN), organized by the National Innovation Center and the Ministry of Finance in Hanoi, Dung spent practically three hours discussing Vietnam’s strategic know-how growth with experts working in fields akin to quantum computing, AI, blockchain, and unmanned aerial automobiles, a lot of whom are at the moment primarily based overseas. He inspired them to preserve contributing to Vietnam, whether or not from overseas or by returning.
“At some point, if you feel the drive to return, the government will support you and make every effort to help you come back, especially those who are capable of taking on roles as lead engineers or chief architects,” he stated.
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Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Chi Dung at a gathering with the Vietnamese Innovation Network on the event of strategic know-how sectors on Nov. 26, 2025. Photo by VnExpress/Luu Quy |
The roles of chief architect and lead engineer are vital management positions, accountable for overseeing main tasks, managing analysis groups, and driving particular initiatives. Experts who’ve studied and labored overseas are thought-about extremely certified for these roles. Many such professionals are a part of VIN, which was established in 2018 and at the moment has round 2,500 members throughout 22 nations and areas.
Dung identified that the federal government has created favorable insurance policies, infrastructure, and circumstances to encourage these experts to return and contribute to the nation’s growth. He famous that the federal government has allotted 3-5% of GDP for science, know-how, and innovation, stating that “no other country has invested at this scale.”
However, he identified that the problem lies within the absence of particular proposals.
“At this point, we do not need to discuss the role, position, or necessity of this anymore, as that is already well understood,” he stated. “What is needed now are concrete proposals: what should be done, which projects need to be registered, how much funding is required, and where to begin?”
Hoang Anh Tu, Deputy Director of the Department of Science and Technology of the Ministry of Science and Technology, additionally famous that Vietnam has mechanisms in place to expedite the implementation of strategic scientific tasks.
For instance, establishments and scientists can now suggest tasks immediately to funding our bodies, streamlining the approval course of.
Additionally, rules make sure that experts, together with lead engineers and chief architects, are compensated competitively, with salaries comparable to senior authorities officers, akin to ministers or division heads.
Tu highlighted the necessity for experts to lead vital tasks in Vietnam, together with the event of a big Vietnamese language mannequin with 100-150 billion tokens, and invited these within the community to return and take cost of such bold initiatives.
Dung additionally recommended that experts within the community give attention to fixing Vietnam’s important challenges, together with pure disasters, floods, landslides, and city points akin to site visitors congestion, environmental air pollution, and the crosscountry high-speed railway.
“If we fail to leverage research to master new technologies and materials for these projects, it would be a significant missed opportunity,” he stated.
He urged the knowledgeable community to actively interact in coverage critique and contribute to strategy development, drawing on their expertise overseas. He additionally expressed a want to appeal to extra Vietnamese expertise to the community and mobilize worldwide sources for Vietnam, akin to scholarships and R&D funding.
“The Vietnamese expert community abroad is vast. If we can unite them, it would be an enormous resource.”