Hanoi (VNA) – Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has signed a dispatch instructing measures to strengthen the training of high-quality human resources for the semiconductor, artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing, aiming to create breakthroughs in the industries.
In Dispatch No. 83/CD-TTg, the PM asked ministers, heads of ministry-level agencies and State agencies and chairpersons of People’s Committees of centrally-run cities and provinces to focus on effectively implementing a number of key tasks.
The Minister of Education and Training (MoET) was ordered to direct public and private tertiary education facilities to establish specialised professional units (schools, faculties, departments) for training and researching in the target industries.
The ministry should also guide the training establishments to review and renovate their training programme, while building and implementing training plans for lecturers, researchers, students majoring in semiconductor microchips, AI and cloud computing, strengthening the application of technologies, especially AI in teaching and studying, and foster cooperation with businesses, universities and research institutes inside and outside the country in training, research and development activities in these fields.
The MoET was directed to promptly build and submit to the PM a project to develop high-quality human resources for high-tech sectors and basic industries, along with a directive on promoting human resources training for semiconductor microchips manufacturing, AI and cloud computing.
Meanwhile, the Minister of Planning and Investment was requested to submit to the PM a project to develop human resources for the semiconductor industry until 2030 with a vision to 2050, which includes contents on developing AI and cloud computing and forming and expanding and ecosystem and centres for innovation and incubation as well as innovation networks in the fields of semiconductor, AI and cloud computing.
The Minister of Science and Technology was assigned to give priority to scientific research programmes on semiconductor microchips manufacturing, AI and cloud computing in association with training talents, experts and scientists in universities, while coordinating with relevant ministries and sectors to complete mechanisms and policies to attract talents from other countries and industrial sectors to work and teach in universities in the fields.
The PM ordered the Minister of Information and Communications to submit a development strategy for Vietnam’s semiconductor industry until 2030 with a vision to 2050, and build a plan to carry out the strategy which prioritises the development of big data computing centres to support higher education institutions in training high-quality human resources in the fields of semiconductor microchips, AI, and cloud computing.
Ministers, heads of ministerial-level agencies and Government agencies directly managing higher education institutions were requested to direct and support higher education institutions in developing high-quality human resource training in the target fields.
At the same time, chairpersons of the People’s Committees of centrally-run cities and provinces were asked to actively attract investment for the development of the semiconductor, AI, and cloud computing ecosystems, while engaging in and strengthening cooperation among the States, training facilities and businesses in the field.
The PM assigned Deputy Prime Minister Le Thanh Long to supervise the implementation of the dispatch./.
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