Intellectuals contribute ideas on development policies for Ho Chi Minh City in the new era

On December 22, the City Party Committee, People's Council, People's Committee, and Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Ho Chi Minh City held a conference to meet intellectuals in 2024.

Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Van Nen greeted and presented flowers to express gratitude to intellectuals at the 2024 Intellectual Meeting Conference - Photo: TTD

Attending and chairing the conference were Mr. Nguyen Van Nen - Politburo member, Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee; Mr. Phan Van Mai - Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee.

The conference welcomed 289 leading intellectual delegates from many fields, representing the intellectual community of Ho Chi Minh City.

Ho Chi Minh City needs special policies to attract talent.

At the conference, Prof. Dr. Dang Luong Mo - a world-famous Vietnamese scientist in the field of microchips, an overseas Vietnamese with many contributions to the country - proposed legal solutions and intellectual teams for the coming time.

Professor Mo suggested: "In the draft resolution on piloting a number of special mechanisms and policies for the development of Ho Chi Minh City this time, there should be a chapter or article allowing Ho Chi Minh City the right to mobilize Vietnamese resources at home and abroad, use and treat investors, scientists, technologists... related to the fields of science and technology, and industrial development necessary for the city."

Regarding the use of people, according to Professor Dang Luong Mo, it can be viewed from four angles.

First , we must answer the question: Do we really need them and what kind of talent do we need?

Second , if you want to recruit talented people, you must create conditions and an environment for them to contribute by assigning them jobs that are truly valuable, demanding, and properly evaluating the work they do because talented people like to be demanding, even harshly demanding.

Third , there needs to be adequate treatment. Talented people usually do not require much material things, what is more important to them is respect and fairness.

Fourth , be generous because talented people often have flaws. It would be a waste to give up a small flaw, especially if it doesn't affect your work and isn't against your character.

"Overseas Vietnamese are just ordinary people. Cooperation, treatment, and benefits should be built and developed on the basis of mutual benefit," Professor Mo emphasized.

Need to build a "digital" database of the city's human resources

Prof. Dr. Nguyen Ngoc Tran proposed building a "digital" database on the city's human resources - Photo: TTD

Commenting on the City Party Committee's Action Program No. 49, Prof. Dr. Nguyen Ngoc Tran - former Vice Chairman of the National Assembly's Foreign Affairs Committee - said that the database is an indispensable tool for Action Program No. 49.

Professor Tran suggested that it is necessary to build a "digital" database of people with university degrees or higher in the city, their trained profession and the field they are working in; the number of people who have graduated for a while but are unemployed...

"The time gap between research (R) and implementation (D) is increasingly narrowing, and so is the gap between R - D and C (commercialization of results). Therefore, it is necessary to expand the concept of "intellectuals", "talents"... to include those, experts, businessmen, who have made and are making specific contributions to the city's economic and social development and environmental protection.

The survey was limited to institutes, schools and state agencies. It is necessary to survey the non-state sector, specifically non-state enterprises and foreign-invested enterprises. Comparing the use of brainpower in the two sectors will be useful for policy making," said Professor Tran.

He also said that the issue of "attracting talent" to the locality and to state agencies has been raised for a long time. There have been programs and projects to send young cadres to strengthen the administration of remote communes. Many policies have been applied but the results have not been as expected.

"One of the reasons is that policies and regimes are set out subjectively by the policy-making party.

To find the right bottleneck, we need to listen without prejudice to what the target expects: a spiritual working environment, objective and transparent evaluation of work results, an equal path for everyone in their career advancement, not influenced by 'descendants, money, relationships, intelligence' as the late General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong criticized.

Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Van Nen greets Prof. Dr. Dang Luong Mo at the 2024 intellectual meeting conference - Photo: TTD

There will be policies to create favorable space for intellectuals to contribute.

Speaking at the conference, Secretary Nguyen Van Nen said the main purpose of today's 2024 intellectual meeting is to ask about, share, encourage each other, and continue to contribute.

"The city government has the opportunity to listen, absorb, and exchange opinions and experiences from intellectuals in various fields to contribute to the city. Up to now, we can be confident and realize that our team's capacity is qualified to enter the era of national development," Mr. Nen emphasized.

Resolution 45 of the Central Executive Committee on building and promoting the role of intellectuals, meeting the needs of rapid and sustainable national development in the new period, continues to identify intellectuals as a creative labor force, a pioneer in the cause of innovation.

Ho Chi Minh City is a major center of economy, education and training, science and technology, culture and society of the country. Currently, the city's intellectual team has about 1.6 million people, of which about 8,000 are professors, associate professors, doctors, leading experts...

Over the years, the relationship between the city’s leaders and the intellectual community has become increasingly close. The intellectual community has also grown in both quantity and quality. More and more young scientists have emerged, achieving great success and making worthy contributions to the city.

Secretary Nguyen Van Nen said that although the city has institutionalized many mechanisms and policies to attract and reward intellectuals, more efforts are needed.

"The city's leaders seriously acknowledge that the building of a team of intellectuals is still limited, and the legal document system is not yet complete and consistent. Despite many efforts, the attraction is not strong. We are researching to find ways to improve," Mr. Nen added.

According to Mr. Nen, there are things that intellectuals alone cannot overcome, but need the Government, the leadership of the Party, authorities at all levels, as well as the support of the sectors. This is the point of action, meaning that there needs to be a common effort.

At the same time, there must be policies and mechanisms to create a favorable corridor and space for intellectuals to contribute. The city's policy-making mindset has also followed the direction of valuing talents and promoting high autonomy of intellectuals in innovation.

Source: https://tuoitre.vn/tri-thuc-gop-y-chinh-sach-phat-trien-tp-hcm-trong-ky-nguyen-moi-20241222143553926.htm