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Bottlenecks must be removed to facilitate innovation: Deputy PM

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam on January 6 asked the Ministry of Science and Technology to remove bottlenecks in order to facilitate innovation.
Bottlenecks must be removed to facilitate innovation: Deputy PM ảnh 1Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam (right) and Minister of Science and Technology Huynh Thanh Dat at the conference. (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi(VNA) - Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam on January 6 asked the Ministry ofScience and Technology to remove bottlenecks in order to facilitate innovation.

Addressing a ministry's conference in Hanoi to review performance in 2020 and launch tasks for this year, the Deputy PM lauded the ministry for its quick responseto major and unexpected tasks regarding vaccines, test kits, and pandemicprevention and control.

He,however, urged the ministry to make its financial mechanism more transparent to boost science-technology and innovation,saying that businesses should be at the centre.

Minister ofScience and Technology Huynh Thanh Dat highlighted the contributions of science-technologyto the country’s economic growth of 2.91 percent in 2020, stressing thatVietnam posted one of the highest growth rates in the region and the world.

Productivity roseby 5.8 percent each year on average during the 2016-2020 period, higher than the4.3 percent average posted in 2011-2015 and exceeding the targeted 5 percent,he added.

According toDeputy Minister of Science and Technology Le Xuan Dinh, science-technology contributedto addressing pressing issues facing localities around Vietnam, removingdifficulties and supporting enterprises to maintain and restore production andbusiness affected by COVID-19.

The ministrywill continue its close coordination with other ministries, agencies, andlocalities in completing key tasks like implementing the Government’s majorprogrammes and projects and reviewing and perfecting relevant mechanisms, policiesand laws in order to make science-technology and innovation the driver ofeconomic growth.

It will further conductresearch, especially on COVID-19 vaccines, establish research and developmentcentres and institutes and science-technology and innovation firms, and promotethe national innovative startup ecosystem.

Deputy PM Dam alsopresented a certificate of merit from the Prime Minister to the ministry inrecognition of its contributions to national construction and defence./.
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