As many as 40 research works and innovative products were honoured at the Innovative Youth Festival in Ho Chi Minh City on November 9.

Selected from 130 entries sent by 41 provincial and municipal Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union (HCMCYU) chapters, the winners covered a variety of aspects from socio-economy, health and education to security and defence.

Among those were the Ho Chi Minh City University of Medicine and Pharmacy’s research of Doxophylin used in asthma and COPD treatment, Viettel’s research on development foundation for military information device using SDR technology, and the natural rubber-based electric wire manufacturing project of the Vietnam Rubber Group.

Addressing the honouring ceremony, Nguyen Manh Dung, Permanent Secretary of the HCMCYU Central Committee, said that after ten years of operation, the “Innovative Youth” movement has inspired young people’s creativeness and promoted their great potential for the national industrialisation and modernisation.

The November 8-9 festival, organised by the committee, drew the participation of about 20,000 visitors, mostly students.-VNA