On February 15, the first working day of the Year of the Dragon 2024, the first unit that the Ministry of Information and Communications visited was FPT. This is a message about the evaluation and respect for national digital transformation enterprises. In his speech to the group's staff and employees, Minister Nguyen Manh Hung mentioned the mission of digital technology enterprises, the challenges and opportunities of the new year, as well as the legacy left by technology workers. VietNamNet respectfully introduces the speech.
Congratulations to FPT Corporation on moving to its new headquarters: Big, beautiful, modern, unique. This headquarters is on par with global digital technology corporations, inspiring Vietnamese digital technology businesses.

Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung speaks at the New Year visit to FPT Corporation. Photo: Le Anh Dung

In recent years, FPT has maintained a growth rate of around 20%. This is a high level. FPT's revenue from foreign markets has also reached 1 billion USD and accounts for 40% of the Group's total revenue. This is a big step forward, a breakthrough, bringing FPT to a different rank, a different class. A digital technology enterprise (CNS) that is not successful abroad cannot be called successful. The international market, international competition, and conquering the world were in the blood of the first generation of FPT. There were times when they failed to leave, but that desire has never disappeared. Perhaps it was just not enough fate. When enough fate is met, that desire will rise again and take shape. The IT&T industry is proud to have up to 1,500 enterprises with revenue from foreign markets and the number has reached over 7.5 billion USD. FPT should become the pride of Vietnam, become a global technology enterprise. On the first working day of the Year of the Dragon, the first unit that the Ministry of Information and Communications visited was FPT. This is a message sent by the Ministry of Information and Communications, by the Vietnamese government, about the evaluation and respect for national CNS enterprises, considering them as the main factor to develop the country, to turn Vietnam into a dragon, a tiger in the middle of the 21st century. FPT still has the vitality it has today thanks to the fire, the energy, the ideological motivation of Truong Gia Binh. Without this motivation, energy and vitality, FPT will find it very difficult to continue to develop, very difficult to continuously innovate. Mr. Binh is still the motivation and is also tirelessly searching for a new motivation. Finding a new motivation and transferring it will be the last great thing that Mr. Binh does for FPT.

The delegation of the Ministry of Information and Communications took a souvenir photo with key officials of FPT Corporation.

Mr. Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore said, an excellent leader must do three big things. First, must create breakthrough development for his organization, must have great achievements while in office. Second, must find and train a replacement, and this person must be able to create even greater achievements than himself. Third, must leave at the right time. The second thing is more difficult than the first, the third thing is even more difficult than the second. Mr. Binh has just finished one thing, there are still two more things to do, and they are even more difficult. Nearly 500 children who lost their parents during Covid-19 are growing up in FPT's Hope School, which will probably be FPT's greatest legacy. We do technology, but the greatest legacy we leave behind will not be technology but what we do for people. Covid-19 destroys but also gives birth to new life. Those life are growing here in FPT's house. Look into those children's eyes and we adults will change. The ones who will bring Mr. Binh and FPT into the future will most likely be these children. Because these children will probably absorb Mr. Binh, absorb FPT the most. Whoever absorbs us the most will be the one who will take us the farthest and longest - into the future.

Orphans at FPT's Hope School

FPT is 40 years old. It has gone through the start-up phase, has succeeded, has peaked, has stagnated, and is regenerating to enter a new stage of development. Every business is born, grows, ages, and then gets sick. The difference lies in the ability to regenerate when old and sick. If FPT can get through this stage, it will have escaped the cycle of Birth-Age-Sickness-Death, to join the group of long-lasting businesses. And it seems that digital technology (CNS), artificial intelligence (AI), digital transformation (CĐS) and the persistence with the original mission have helped FPT successfully regenerate. FPT's bet on AI, on semiconductor chips, on EV, and especially AI, is a strategic choice. Next, I would like to share some ideas with FPT friends about digital transformation and green transformation. Digital transformation and green transformation will be the two most important transformations of this century, at least of the first half of this century. These two transformations will fundamentally change our lives. Green and digital are twins. To be green, we must use digital, and to be digital, we must also use green. FPT must be one of the most important companies in these two transformations of the century, not only domestically but also globally. About the important shifts of the ICT industry ​The next 10-20-30 years will be important shifts in the second innovation of the telecommunications - Information Technology - Digital Technology sector: From telecommunications infrastructure to digital infrastructure; from communications infrastructure to infrastructure of the digital economy; from information technology to digital technology; from IT applications to digital transformation; from automation to intelligence, to artificial intelligence; from limited information processing to unlimited digital data processing to create new values; from individual software to digital platforms; from processing and assembling to making Make in Vietnam products (designed in Vietnam, created in Vietnam, made in Vietnam); from service enterprises to industrial and technology enterprises; from mining enterprises to enterprises researching and developing digital applications; from the domestic market to the international market. About Vietnam's digital infrastructure Vietnam's digital infrastructure includes telecommunications infrastructure, IoT infrastructure, computing infrastructure, data infrastructure, infrastructure providing digital technology as a service and digital platforms with infrastructure characteristics. Vietnam's digital infrastructure must have super large capacity, super wide bandwidth, be universal, sustainable, green, smart, open and safe. This infrastructure must be prioritized for investment, modernization and be one step ahead to promote national digital transformation, develop the digital economy and digital society. Regarding artificial intelligence, AI is the main and most important technology, the most revolutionary of the fourth industrial revolution, it will be like the steam engine, like electricity, like computers of previous industrial revolutions. That is, a type of technology that is universal and applicable in all industries, all fields and to everyone. But unlike the previous three industrial revolutions, when machines replaced manual labor, machines were human labor tools, now AI replaces mental labor, and is an assistant to humans.

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For AI to empower humans, AI must be popularized as a service. The responsibility for this popularization must belong to CNS companies like FPT. 2024 is the year of AI development, especially narrow AI, creating AI applications for each field, industrial AI. Narrow AI is specialized, focused and user-generated AI. Narrow AI systems are designed and trained for a specific task. They are highly effective within a predefined functional scope. Narrow AI technology is now ready for widespread application. Narrow AI is AI of the user, created by the user, is the child, the extended brain, the virtual assistant of the user. The user provides their narrow AI with data and sets requirements, goals. The user trains their own AI and then uses it. The user creates it, therefore trusts it. Narrow AI is under the control of the user, because they or their organization created it, not anyone else. Narrow AI is AI for private use, it does not need too many regulations from the government. Network operators provide AI tools and computing power as a service so that every Vietnamese person has a virtual assistant. FPT will certainly have to be one of the largest and most important AI companies in Vietnam, with thousands, tens of thousands of AI engineers. Use AI to create a digital Vietnam. Use AI for digital transformation. Use AI to solve big national problems. And use AI to go abroad. About the semiconductor industry 2024 will be the first year we implement the national strategy for the development of the semiconductor industry. The semiconductor industry is a foundation industry, and not only that, it is also a key national industry in the next 30-50 years. As long as humanity continues to develop based on information, based on data as an input factor of production, data processing, that is, semiconductor chips, will continue to be key. Our most fundamental advantage is that Vietnamese people have genes for STEM (math, engineering, technology and science). And STEM is the foundation of semiconductor technology, of chip design. Among the advantages, the genetic advantage is the most important, probably not less than the geopolitical advantage. From the human resource advantage, other advantages will come. From the global center of semiconductor human resources will lead to the global center of the semiconductor industry. When we develop the semiconductor industry, we should look at it in a larger context, a bigger picture. If we talk about the semiconductor chip design market, it is only 60 billion USD per year, if we talk about the entire semiconductor industry, it is 600 billion USD, but the electronics industry is over 3,000 billion USD, and the digital transformation industry will be up to 20,000 billion USD, which is 30 times larger than the semiconductor industry, and 600 times larger than chip design.

FPT is determined to develop the semiconductor industry.

Developing semiconductor technology is also an opportunity for Vietnam to rebuild its domestic electronics industry (such as electronics-telecommunications equipment, consumer electronics, medical electronics, industrial electronics, etc.), especially when this industry is entering the transition phase to AI electronics and IoT devices. The semiconductor industry is also the core of the digital transformation industry. The digital transformation industry is the largest market for semiconductor chips. Vietnam with a population of 100 million is a large market, and is in a stage of rapid development, rapid industrialization, rapid digital transformation, and high electronic consumption, so it will be a favorable context for the semiconductor industry. If FPT wants to develop the semiconductor industry and the electronics industry, it must have a larger vision and greater determination. FPT is a large enterprise, so it must look at larger, more difficult spaces and leave smaller, easier spaces to others. The country is grateful to businesses because they create wealth, create jobs, make the country prosperous, make the country famous, make weapons to protect the Fatherland. A business with thousands of people, worth hundreds of millions of dollars, is no longer yours. Doing business then is no longer for yourself. The responsibility to society, to the community, to the country will be much greater. And if it is not for something greater, there is not enough energy to lead such a large business to continue. Mr. Truong Gia Binh is now no longer an ordinary person, but a person of "Heaven". A person with a great mission, a great sacrifice. Mr. Binh certainly did not want it to be like that, but having come to this point, it cannot be otherwise. Consider it fate! But also be proud and glorious to be the chosen one!

FPT is now big and this company has just announced reaching the milestone of 1 billion USD in IT service revenue from foreign markets.

If a business wants to grow, it must have big dreams. Vietnam has been invaded frequently, so it may not have big dreams. But if it does not dream big, does not grow strong, it will be invaded again. The country will be lost again, returned to nothing, and then have to start over again. If this keeps happening, when will Vietnam become strong and have lasting peace? Can we break this cycle? Do businesses have any part, any responsibility here? Your part, your responsibility is very large, if not the largest. But businesses, especially large businesses, must carry the national and ethnic mission. They must have big dreams. They must be rich and use that wealth to solve the country's big problems, help the country grow strong, prosper, and especially, master the most modern technologies to manufacture weapons, to manufacture "magic crossbows" to protect the Fatherland. A prosperous nation that cannot protect itself is built on sand. FPT is now big, at the top of Vietnam, has gone global, and is competing internationally. FPT has grown up like this because Vietnam nurtured it, now is the time to return the favor to its parents who gave birth to and nurtured it. Let's use technology to change Vietnam, let's use CNS to industrialize and modernize Vietnam. Let's use CNS to digitalize Vietnam, turn Vietnam into a digital nation, and contribute to making Vietnam a dragon and a tiger by the middle of this century. The nation and the people will last forever. Businesses that are attached to the nation and the people will also last forever. 2023 is a difficult year, both globally and nationally. Businesses are also facing difficulties. But difficulties are a test. Difficulties are also a health check for businesses. Difficulties make us see the problems at the lower levels more clearly. If we can handle the problems at the lower levels, the organization will develop more sustainably. Difficulties are also a warning, what is good is not good forever. Therefore, when things are good, it is time to open new directions, it is time to prepare for difficulties. We should not waste these difficult times. Difficulties and crises are the way society develops. Dear FPT friends, the theme of the Ministry of Information and Communications in 2024 is: Universalizing digital infrastructure, creating digital applications to develop the digital economy - New driving force for economic growth and labor productivity. The most important thing in developing the digital economy is digital applications, digital transformation applications for industries. So who will do this? It must be the network operators, the digital technology enterprises. We have infrastructure, we have technology, we have human resources, we have knowledge of digital transformation, then we must be the ones to create digital transformation applications for industries to sell to them. In the past few years, we have left this to the industries to do themselves and therefore, the development of digital transformation and digital technology is very slow. Developing digital applications for industries is also product creation, which is also Make in Vietnam. CNS enterprises must consider this as a research and development activity.

Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung and FPT Chairman Truong Gia Binh discuss at the first meeting of the year

Vietnamese IT enterprises, such as FPT, should enter industries and fields to create digital applications, help with digital transformation, and develop digital technologies for industries and fields. And this is also the process of industrialization and modernization of the country. IT enterprises now have a new mission of industrialization and modernization of the country through creating digital applications, especially industrial digital applications. Developing digital technologies in industries is also a way to increase labor productivity (LP) of these industries. For many years, Vietnam has not achieved the target of increasing LP, so now, our solution to this difficult problem is to create digital applications to develop digital technologies in industries. IT enterprises that make digital applications also contribute to increasing LP for the country. Vietnam is not a small country. 100 million people, ranked 14-15th in the world. GDP ranks 35-40th. Intelligence is probably in the top 10. STEM (math, engineering, technology and science) is probably in the top 5. Self-reliance is probably in the top 5. Diligence is probably in the top 3. Flexibility is probably number 1. So Vietnam is not small. Vietnam can completely become a powerful country. National enterprises are the main factors to turn Vietnam into a powerful country. The Fatherland is calling the names of entrepreneurs and enterprises with national and ethnic spirit. The development of the information and communications industry is first of all due to the enterprises and units in the industry. It is due to the dedication of the chairmen and general directors. It is due to your exploration of strange lands. It is due to your acceptance of risks. On behalf of the Ministry of Information and Communications, I would like to thank FPT, thank you for your contributions! This year is the year of Giap Thin , Giap belongs to the element of Wood. Giap Moc represents a large, strong, and upright ancient tree. Giap is also the beginning of a 10-year cycle of the Heavenly Stems. The Year of the Dragon belongs to the Fire element, Phu Dang Hoa. It is a warm, shining light. It drives away the difficulties of the previous year. The Year of the Dragon is full of ambitions, dreams and great goals. In Eastern culture, the Dragon symbolizes power, is a symbol of divinity and sacredness. Therefore, this year is considered a year full of energy and strength, both charming and radiant, powerful and successful in business. On behalf of the Ministry of Information and Communications, I wish Mr. Truong Gia Binh and FPT friends a new year of the Dragon, always being aware of the national and human mission, receiving the energy of Heaven and Earth, overcoming difficulties, challenges and succeeding, contributing to making Vietnam famous!

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