Southeast Asia Information Port (www.dnyxxg.com) – Resolution No. 57-NQ/TW, issued by the Politburo of the Communist Party of Vietnam on December 22, 2024, clearly states that technology and digital transformation are essential for the digital age, and reform and innovation are the driving forces for national growth. In the year since its implementation, the resolution has taken root, achieving significant changes from awareness to action, and from cities to the grassroots, laying a solid foundation for the new development stage.
Addressing the issue of fragmented science and technology innovation initiatives and the lack of effective linkage and transformation mechanisms in Vietnam, the National Science and Technology Development Fund has established a science and technology innovation and reform innovation portal, serving as an open digital platform connecting idea proposers, evaluation experts, and receiving development organizations. This platform focuses on receiving ideas from all sectors of society, ensuring transparent evaluation, and connecting with practical needs, while promoting intellectual property protection and commercialization, and leveraging Vietnam's global AI expert network to improve the quality of idea classification and processing.
At the local level, Hanoi City, aiming to build a comprehensive innovation ecosystem, has reorganized institutional, spatial, data, and human resources, launching the Hanoi Innovation Network (comprising 7 centers), jointly built by the city, enterprises, and universities, to establish infrastructure for resource matching, idea incubation, technology transfer, and entrepreneurship support. In 2025, Hanoi ranked first in the national provincial innovation index, leading in 18 out of 52 sub-indicators, with 25.2% of enterprises engaging in innovation activities. Ca Mau province established an Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center, focusing on services such as startup incubation, talent training, and technical support to contribute to the development of the Mekong Delta innovation ecosystem.
At the enterprise level, implementing the resolution has become a consensus, accelerating the transformation of "Made in Vietnam." At the 2025 Vietnam Technology Enterprise Development National Forum, Deputy Prime Minister Ho Quoc Dung emphasized that cultivating large-scale technology enterprises with core technologies and competitiveness in domestic and international markets is a key objective of the resolution. Viettel, the Vietnam Military Telecommunications Group, is focusing on high-tech industries, mastering strategic technologies such as 5G and semiconductor chips. Its 5G Advanced network test speed exceeds 7.3 Gbps (six times faster than existing standalone 5G networks). By December 2025, it had built 30,000 5G base stations, achieving 90% outdoor and 70% indoor coverage, contributing to the achievement of the national 5G coverage target by 2030. Vietnam Post and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) controls the digital infrastructure and core technology ecosystem, while FPT Group focuses on investments in areas such as artificial intelligence and data.
In 2026, Vietnam's Ministry of Science and Technology clearly stated that it will continue to break through institutional bottlenecks, mobilize resources to shift towards a constructive mindset, and focus its efforts on strategic technology areas. (End)
