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PM asks Ministry of Science and Technology to speed up digital transformation

PM asks Ministry of Science and Technology to speed up digital transformation

(VOVWORLD) -Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh stressed the need to speed up comprehensive digital transformation, paying special attention to digital infrastructure, national data platforms, information and network security, and digital sovereignty.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh delivers a speech at the Congress. Photo: Lai Hoa/VOV

Speaking at the first Party Congress of the Ministry of Science and Technology, term 2025-2030 in Hanoi on Saturday, Prime Minister Chinh urged for the diversification of investment resources for innovation, digital transformation, and especially private investment.

He emphasized the development and mastery of strategic and core technologies, prioritizing areas such as artificial intelligence, robotics, semiconductors, big data, biology, new energy, among others.

“The Ministry of Science and Technology plays a pivotal role in the process of scientific and technological innovation and digital transformation, while performing the function of state management. Now we are renewing traditional growth drivers like export, consumption, and investment and promoting new growth drivers and green growth, digital economic growth, circular economic growth,” Mr. Chinh said.

The Prime Minister also proposed developing high-quality human resources in science and technology, attracting and using talents, especially young intellectuals and Vietnamese experts abroad.

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