On March 31, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh had a meeting and worked with a delegation of 21 leading prestigious universities in the United States participating in the International Academic Exchange Program (IAPP) 2025 in Vietnam.
Attending the meeting were Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son; Minister of Science and Technology Nguyen Manh Hung; US Ambassador to Vietnam Marc E. Knapper; leaders of ministries, sectors, agencies and Vietnamese universities.
Breakthrough in science, technology, innovation and national digital transformation
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh emphasized that Vietnam is building a country with three main pillars: a socialist rule-of-law state; socialist democracy and a socialist-oriented market economy.
Vietnam focuses on implementing three strategic breakthroughs in institutions, infrastructure and human resources, especially high-quality human resources; striving to create breakthroughs in science and technology development, innovation and national digital transformation.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said that Vietnam has issued a number of important documents and policies on the development of education - training and science and technology to fundamentally and comprehensively reform education and training; create breakthroughs in the development of science, technology, innovation, and national digital transformation. Vietnam commits to spending up to 20% of the total state budget on education and training to improve people's knowledge, train human resources, nurture talents, and develop people in terms of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, and aesthetics; and looks forward to sharing and cooperation with the United States in the development of education and training.
Regarding the situation in Vietnam, the Prime Minister shared that Vietnam is striving to achieve growth of 8% by 2025, creating momentum, strength, foundation, and spirit for a period of double-digit growth in the following years. Therefore, there must be strategies to "turn the situation around, change the state".
Vietnam focuses on restructuring the apparatus; administrative reform, shifting from passive to proactive state of serving people and businesses; identifying science and technology development, innovation, digital transformation as breakthroughs and new driving forces for development; private economy as the most important driving force of economic development... In which, education and training play a very important role.
Propose that universities of the two countries closely coordinate to develop long-term and sustainable cooperation plans.
Considering that cooperation between Vietnamese and US universities has been implemented over the past years and achieved many results, but has not been as deep and effective as expected, the Prime Minister suggested that universities of the two countries closely coordinate to develop long-term, sustainable, practical and effective cooperation plans with diverse, creative and flexible forms.
Specifically, such as student and lecturer exchanges, training cooperation, joint research programs, and entering new fields to help Vietnam exploit marine space, outer space, and underground space. The Prime Minister called on the United States to consider expanding scholarship programs and tuition incentives for Vietnamese students and researchers.
Emphasizing that recently large US corporations such as Intel, NVIDIA, Apple... have come to Vietnam to learn, invest, and expand the ecosystem, the Prime Minister suggested that universities of both sides proactively discuss to have specific cooperation programs, especially in high-tech industries, AI, semiconductors, biotechnology, health, agriculture, and foreign languages.
At the meeting, US Ambassador to Vietnam Marc E. Knapper and representatives of US universities highly appreciated Vietnam's development strategy, especially in the field of education and training.
At the same time, he said he is ready to cooperate and stand side by side with Vietnam to implement socio-economic development strategies, especially in education, training, science, technology and innovation, and improve the quality of human resources, contributing to deepening the Vietnam-US Comprehensive Strategic Partnership.
It is known that there are currently about 30,000 Vietnamese students studying in the United States, ranking 5th in the number of international students in the United States. There are about more than 50 joint training programs between Vietnamese and American higher education institutions, mainly undergraduate and master's programs.
After training, many people work very successfully in agencies and businesses in both Vietnam and the United States.
Source: https://daibieunhandan.vn/thu-tuong-pham-minh-chinh-danh-den-20-tong-chi-ngan-sach-cho-giao-duc-post408911.html
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