Ho Chi Minh City has many advantages to build a multi-purpose High-Tech Center.

Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee Nguyen Van Duoc chaired the workshop. Photo: HOANG HUNG

At the workshop, Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee Nguyen Van Duoc said: "Ho Chi Minh City plays an important role in the national economy, however, recently, economic development has shown signs of reaching a threshold, so a new breakthrough is needed."

According to comrade Nguyen Van Duoc, Ho Chi Minh City has strengths in high-tech industry, playing the role of a center of creative knowledge, scientific research and technology transfer.

"With the construction of a multi-purpose high-tech center in Ho Chi Minh City, we need to discuss carefully, in the spirit of making the best use of the city's existing facilities," emphasized comrade Nguyen Van Duoc.

Delegates attending the workshop. Photo: HOANG HUNG

According to Lam Dinh Thang, Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Science and Technology, the city currently has large-scale concentrated technology zones, including the High-Tech Park (SHTP), Quang Trung Software Park (QTSC), the Biotechnology Center and the digital technology activity area; however, these zones lack connectivity and information sharing with each other.

SHTP has a strategic position to become a multi-purpose High-Tech Park, a place of technology convergence, innovation, sustainable development, contributing significantly to the goal of economic and industrial transformation of Vietnam.

Head of SHTP Management Board Nguyen Ky Phung shared: “With the model of Science and Technology Park, SHTP is shaped as a multidisciplinary science and technology research center, playing a core role in promoting growth in the Southeast region following the trend of the fourth industrial revolution, facilitating the direction towards a multi-purpose High-Tech Center”.

Conference scene. Photo: HOANG HUNG

Further outlining the multi-purpose High-Tech Center, Mr. Vu Chi Kien, Deputy Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Institute for Development Studies, emphasized that if the center is to be developed, the selected land needs to have good traffic infrastructure connections to urban centers and commercial gateways of Ho Chi Minh City.

"Thereby, using public investment capital to build modern infrastructure, meeting international standards, as a basis to call for investment from the world's leading technology corporations and this center must apply an advanced management model with its own specific mechanism," said Mr. Vu Chi Kien.

From the comments at the workshop, it can be seen that the policy of building and developing a multi-purpose High-Tech Center (integrating AI center, big data center, semiconductor chip) in Ho Chi Minh City is an inevitable trend, aiming to promote innovation, enhance competitiveness and shift the economy towards high technology...

Therefore, it is necessary to quickly promote the construction of the center, linked with technology enterprises as well as attracting investment and regional connectivity.

Meanwhile, Mr. Ngo Vi Dong, Chairman of the Board of Directors of HPT Information Technology Services Joint Stock Company, said that the center needs to integrate key technology fields, create favorable conditions for R&D, attract startups, and at the same time connect with smart cities to ensure sustainability.

According to Mr. Ngo Vi Dong, in Ho Chi Minh City, SHTP has many facilities and potential to build into a multi-purpose High-Tech Center.

Director of Ho Chi Minh City Department of Science and Technology Lam Dinh Thang met with delegates

Currently in the world, it can be seen that Silicon Valley (USA) is the leading High-Tech Center with the convergence of technology companies such as Google, Apple, Meta...

Zhongguancun is known as China's "Silicon Valley", home to many high-tech businesses and research institutes...

These are models that Ho Chi Minh City can learn from.

According to Head of SHTP Management Board Nguyen Ky Phung, to realize the strategy of building and developing a multi-purpose High-Tech Center in Ho Chi Minh City, it is necessary to implement a number of key solutions: Continue to build and perfect mechanisms and policies to support the development of science and technology and innovation, promote the rapid formation of a Science and Technology Park at SHTP and establish the City Institute of Information Technology and Innovation.

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