General Secretary and President To Lam said Vietnam is entering a new stage of development, which requires the country to remain steadfast in its principles and inherit past achievements while making stronger breakthroughs in thinking and action to pursue fast and sustainable development.
The province’s farmers are gradually embracing advances in science and technology and digital transformation, providing an important impetus for the agricultural sector to shift toward modern production in line with Politburo Resolution No. 19-NQ/TW dated June 16, 2022.
Vietnamese scientists should be encouraged to join international scientific organisations and gradually take on leadership roles, contributing to agenda-setting, research priorities, initiatives, standards and decisions on the allocation of international scientific resources.
For Hanoi, which targets average GRDP growth of at least 11% annually from 2026 to 2030, unlocking resources and improving their allocation will be crucial to enabling businesses, particularly small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), to create more jobs and added value.
After 40 years of Doi Moi (Renewal), the economy has begun to show signs of shifting from a growth model heavily reliant on expanding capital and labour towards one driven by innovation, science and technology and digital transformation, with greater emphasis on improving labour productivity.
The resolution identifies enterprises as the centre of the renewal process, urging them to shift from cost-based competition to productivity, technology, quality and market responsiveness; from operating independently to joining industrial ecosystems; and from participating in value chains to mastering and eventually leading them.
Science and technology, innovation, digital transformation and AI must be translated into higher productivity rather than pursued as ends in themselves. At the same time, people should be placed at the centre of development, not merely viewed as a resource but as the ultimate objective of development policies.
