WB project targeting low-income earners launches
The announcement was made at a ceremony hosted by the Ministry of Planning and Investment in Hanoi on November 7.
The 55 million USD project aims to support research institutes and
businesses to upgrade and commercialise the latest technology to create
products and services of reasonable prices for a great majority of the
population, especially low-income earners.
It also
helps connect research institutes, businesses and banks to jointly speed
up the application of advanced technology and realise their research
outcomes into production.
The project will
prioritise developing traditional medicine, information technology and
communications, agriculture and aquiculture.
Scientific research in the aforesaid spheres must be practical,
applicable, environmentally friendly and cost effective, and may be
implemented in two or three years.-VNA