Science and technology, innovation and digital transformation play a key role and are a strong driving force for Vietnam to develop rapidly, sustainably and sustainably, helping Vietnam catch up and progress with developed countries.
Three things to do quickly and effectively
On the morning of January 13, at the National Conference to disseminate Resolution No. 57 of the Politburo on breakthroughs in science, technology, innovation and national digital transformation, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh reported on the main contents of the Government's Action Program to implement the Resolution.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh reports at the conference (Photo: VGP).
According to the Prime Minister, in the new era, science and technology, innovation and digital transformation are closely linked. This is an objective connection and an inevitable requirement. In which, science and technology is the foundation, innovation is the driving force, digital transformation is the connection, and people are the center and the subject.
These ideas clearly reflect Resolution 57. To implement Resolution 57, there are three very important things that must be done quickly and effectively: Open institutions, smooth infrastructure, smart people; along with other conditions and ensuring network security and safety.
Resolution No. 57 is of special importance, serving as a guideline for development in the new era of prosperity, civilization, and prosperity, and is a strong call to action for the entire Party, people, and army to make joint efforts to turn Vietnam into a developed, high-income country with global competitiveness.
The Prime Minister emphasized that science and technology, innovation and digital transformation play a key role and are a strong driving force for Vietnam to develop rapidly, sustainably and sustainably, helping Vietnam catch up with and advance with developed countries, avoid the risk of economic lag, and gradually surpass and stand shoulder to shoulder with technological powers.
This is the key to improving labor productivity, economic competitiveness, creating new products and services, meeting domestic and international market needs; optimizing production, business and state management processes; promoting the development of digital economy, digital society, green economy, in line with the general trend of the world.
"The aspiration for a prosperous, prosperous, modern Vietnam, soon joining the group of high-income developed countries, is burning more than ever.
This aspiration is well-founded, based on the great and historically significant achievements that have been made. Developing science and technology, innovation and digital transformation are not only inevitable trends of the times but also the only way to break through, overcome difficulties and challenges, seize opportunities, and build an independent, self-reliant, strong and social economy," the Prime Minister emphasized.
Remove all barriers to development
The Prime Minister said that immediately after Resolution No. 57 was issued, the Government urgently led and directed ministries, agencies and localities to focus on developing, reviewing and perfecting the Government's Action Program to be implemented with the spirit of "5 clear": Clear people, clear work, clear responsibility, clear time and clear results.
In the action program, the Government has set out 41 groups of targets (including 35 specific groups of targets by 2030 and 6 specific groups of targets by 2045) and 7 groups of tasks with 140 specific tasks.
Delegates attending the Conference at the Central bridge (Photo: Pham Thang/Quochoi.vn)
In particular, the group of particularly important tasks is to urgently and resolutely perfect institutions; Eliminate all thoughts, concepts, and barriers that are hindering development; Turn institutions into a competitive advantage in science and technology development, innovation, and digital transformation (with 28 specific tasks).
The Prime Minister said that this is a group of particularly important tasks to fully, promptly and effectively institutionalize the policies and guidelines of the Party and State as General Secretary To Lam directed, ensuring openness and creating development with an innovative mindset of "both strict management and development creation, maximizing resources for development, creating new development space", creating a legal framework to mobilize and effectively use all resources for development.
In parallel, there are groups of tasks such as increasing infrastructure investment for science and technology development, innovation and digital transformation; perfecting institutions, mechanisms, policies, developing and employing high-quality human resources; applying science and technology development, innovation in the operations of state agencies; improving the effectiveness of national governance, the effectiveness of state management, ensuring national defense and security, etc.
Some localities do not attach importance to and allocate low capital for science and technology.
Speaking about policies and solutions related to legal institutions to make breakthroughs in science, technology, innovation and national digital transformation, National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man said that since the beginning of the 15th National Assembly's term, the National Assembly has passed 8 laws related to this content.
In particular, 29 laws and 41 resolutions passed by the National Assembly at the 7th and 8th sessions have resolved many urgent practical issues, including laws regulating the creation of digital databases; management methods, mechanisms, and special incentive policies; allowing the implementation of controlled testing mechanisms...
National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man spoke about policies and solutions related to legal institutions to make breakthroughs in science, technology, innovation and national digital transformation (Photo: Pham Thang/Quochoi.vn).
However, the legal system on science, technology and national digital transformation still has fundamental limitations such as lack of synchronization and unity, leading to some incentive and promotion mechanisms in these fields not being effective.
The investment and financial mechanisms for implementing digital transformation activities are still difficult and have not been resolved promptly. The allocation of financial resources for tasks, projects and projects of national scope is still slow and implementation is complicated and time-consuming.
In particular, according to the National Assembly Chairman, the investment and financial mechanisms for science, technology and innovation are not really suitable and do not encourage or attract investment from society.
Spending a lot of time analyzing this issue, the National Assembly Chairman pointed out the example of the total investment budget of the whole society for science, technology and innovation being low.
The mobilization, allocation and use of resources are still limited and ineffective; investment expenditure from the state budget for this sector tends to decrease; in the period 2016-2023, it decreased from 1.29% (in 2016) to 0.8% (in 2023).
According to him, one of the reasons is that ministries, branches and localities have not really paid attention and have not developed tasks that meet the correct principles and criteria for capital allocation. Some localities do not allocate capital or some localities allocate very little capital for this field.
Or like the fact that every year, most of the allocated budgets of central ministries, branches and localities are not fully disbursed. One of the reasons is that the processes and procedures are still cumbersome.
The development of scientific and technological task proposals must be carried out according to a pre-existing plan. By the time they are approved, the urgency is no longer there, or when the budget is allocated for implementation, the unit price has changed a lot, leading to slow implementation, incomplete expenditure, and inefficiency.
Turning institutions into competitive advantages
Stating key tasks and solutions, the National Assembly Chairman said it is necessary to strongly innovate thinking, methods, and procedures in law-making activities.
Laws must be concise and clear, regulating only issues under the authority of the National Assembly; do not codify the contents of circulars and decrees.
Strengthen decentralization, delegation of power, administrative reform, strongly shift from management-oriented laws to harmoniously combining effective management with development creation, encourage innovation, and resolutely abandon the mindset of "if you can't manage, ban it".
Overview of the conference (Photo: VGP).
For specific issues that are still in the process of being developed and not yet stable, the law only provides a framework and assigns the Government to provide detailed regulations, ensuring flexibility in direction and administration, promptly responding to practical requirements.
Management by results, it is necessary to eliminate the mechanism of asking for and subsidizing, innovate budget allocation based on output results, and switch from pre-control to post-control.
Scientific management mechanisms must create motivation for innovation and creativity like the spirit of "contract 10" in agriculture.
In addition, continue to allow piloting for new practical issues; research and prescribe appropriate pilot mechanisms and controlled testing mechanisms; research and prescribe exemptions from liability in cases of testing new technologies and new business models.
Organize to perfect the law on science, technology development, innovation and digital transformation.
Furthermore, he emphasized the need to unify awareness of the task of "turning institutions into competitive advantages", in which specific principles, criteria, goals and targets are met; clearly demonstrating the level of outstanding incentives and incentives; ensuring synchronization, unity, stability, publicity, transparency, simplicity, convenience, and reducing compliance costs.
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