The forum was organized by the Department of Science and Technology with the participation of central leaders, city leaders, experts, scientists, and representatives of domestic and foreign technology enterprises.
In his opening speech, Vice Chairman of the City People's Committee Hoang Minh Cuong emphasized that 2025 marks an important turning point in the city's development process with the merger of Hai Phong and Hai Duong, forming a large-scale urban area, population and economic potential. The scale of the city's economy is currently ranked 3rd nationwide, GRDP maintains double-digit growth; state budget revenue continuously exceeds the estimate, the fourth consecutive year exceeding the 100,000 billion VND mark.
In that context, digital transformation and building a digital city and smart cities are identified as not only choices, but an inevitable path to expand development space, improve governance efficiency and promote sustainable growth. Hai Phong aims to become a modern, civilized, ecological, and livable industrial port city in Southeast Asia by 2030; a pioneer in digital transformation, green transformation, and innovation.
At the Forum, delegates focused on discussing, exchanging and proposing solutions around 4 main pillars: shared digital infrastructure and cybersecurity; core data and platform; shared applications and operations; interactive channels and effective measurement. Thereby, contributing to advising the city in completing the roadmap to build a digital city, a smart city, towards data-based governance and taking people and businesses as the center of service.
The forum was held to concretize the spirit of Resolution No. 57-NQ/TW of the Politburo on the development of science, technology, innovation and national digital transformation; at the same time, thoroughly grasp the National Digital Architecture Overview framework issued by the Ministry of Science and Technology. This is considered an important foundation for Hai Phong to build a synchronous and modern digital architecture, in line with the city's development characteristics in the new period.
