Minister of Industry and Trade Le Manh Hung chaired the Conference of the Steering Committee of the Ministry of Industry and Trade on Science and Technology Development, Innovation, Digital Transformation and Project 06.
Reporting at the conference, Ms. Nguyen Thi Lam Giang, Director of the Department of Innovation, Green Transformation and Industrial Promotion (DC), said that after more than 1.5 years of implementing Resolution No. 57-NQ/TW, out of 287 assigned tasks, the Ministry of Industry and Trade has completed 178 tasks, 10 tasks are being implemented on schedule and 99 regular tasks; there are no overdue tasks that have not been completed.
Accordingly, regarding institutional reform and administrative procedures, the Ministry of Industry and Trade continues to be in the group of 3 leading ministries and sectors in serving people and businesses with the issuance or submission of 17 legal normative documents related to science and technology, innovation and digital transformation; approving plans to cut and simplify 55.34% of administrative procedures (233/421 procedures), saving about 491.3 billion VND in compliance costs; completing decentralization of 43/45 administrative procedures, reaching 95.5%.
Regarding digital transformation, data and public services, the centralized administrative procedure information system will operate from January 1, 2026, the online dossier rate is approximately 99%; 265 online public services have been integrated into the National Public Service Portal; about 204,000 chemical and precursor data have been created; 16/16 groups of indicators of the industrial and commercial economy database are synchronized with the National Data Center; 41 types of specialized documents have been reviewed to integrate VNeID.
Regarding science, technology and innovation, the industry's 3 major problems have been identified, including: Ensuring energy security; industrial autonomy, improving localization and value chains; modernizing trade by data, smart logistics and reliable supply chains.
In addition, businesses, institutes, and schools in the Industry and Trade sector have proactively deployed and shifted from applying information technology individually to forming a portfolio of technology and strategic products associated with operation, production and market and specific profits and efficiency.
Regarding human resource development, the rate of cadres and civil servants trained in basic digital skills reached 100%; the "digital literacy" movement was implemented in association with AI, big data and automation of public duties; initially applying mechanisms to attract and value talents and shifting training of institutes and schools to semiconductors, AI, green energy, logistics and core technology industries.
Recognizing the efforts of units in implementing tasks according to the assigned plan, ensuring the set progress, however, Minister of Industry and Trade Le Manh Hung also emphasized that the implementation of tasks needs to take output results and actual products as a measure of efficiency.
Accordingly, the Minister requested to change the approach to science and technology in the direction of shifting from management thinking to governance; not only completing tasks according to plan but also optimizing resources, including resources from the foreign investment (FDI) sector and private enterprises.
At the conference, the Minister also clearly stated a number of key tasks in the coming time, specifically: First, to assess and systematize all limitations and bottlenecks in the process of implementing tasks and have solutions to overcome them.
Second, to combine and identify specific goals, measured according to Resolution 57-NQ/TW, focusing on 2 groups of tasks: Digital transformation and Science, technology, innovation; in which, focusing on output results and actual products, associated with the goals of production, business and effectively serving the implementation of economic development tasks.
Third, reorganize the Steering Committee of the Ministry of Industry and Trade on science, technology, innovation, and digital transformation and Project 06 in the direction of dividing into two committees - one committee focusing on digital transformation tasks; the other committee focusing on science, technology, and innovation activities.
For the field of science, technology and innovation, the Minister requested the working group, the standing agency of the Steering Committee to summarize the remaining tasks in the last 6 months of the year, build a complete list of tasks, along with completion deadlines. This will be the basis for units to update progress weekly on the database system, ensuring that monitoring and supervision work is carried out regularly and transparently.
In addition, the Minister requested to review and update 3 major problems with 6 strategic technologies and 16 product groups of the Industry; and at the same time draft a deployment plan associated with the implementation ecosystem for each task, divided by field. The plan must clearly identify the heads of each task, the responsibilities of the Ministry, coordinating units, businesses, training institutions and research institutes.
Regarding digital transformation, the Minister assigned the Department of E-commerce and Digital Economy to coordinate with the Department of Innovation, Green Transformation and Industry Promotion to comprehensively review strategic tasks on digital transformation, including data strategy, digital transformation architecture framework, data architecture framework and data portfolio of the Ministry. At the same time, review and complete the design of digital infrastructure and soft infrastructure; restructure the core database system, and include it in the Ministry's law-making task.
