Vietnam will be the center of the semiconductor equipment industry.
Businessman Vu Tuan Anh - Chairman of GLE Group - shared with Lao Dong that the high-tech sector is stimulating the curiosity and desire to try out the challenges of many young entrepreneurs, especially the semiconductor industry - a field with potential, advantages and intertwined challenges.
"The Vietnamese government has introduced many preferential policies to attract foreign investment and promote high-tech development. Currently, many large corporations have invested, including Intel, which has invested billions of dollars in a chip assembly and testing factory in Ho Chi Minh City. Samsung has invested heavily in production facilities in Bac Ninh and Thai Nguyen. FPT, Viettel... have been vigorously implementing projects to develop the domestic semiconductor industry. This stimulates the desire to conquer of entrepreneurs, including me personally," Mr. Vu Tuan Anh excitedly expressed.
According to Party Central Committee member, Minister of Planning and Investment (MPI) Nguyen Chi Dung, the semiconductor industry is not only the foundation of modern technology, but more than that, it is also the core factor that determines the strength of the digital economy, determining the development of breakthrough technology industries, from artificial intelligence (AI), internet of things (IoT), big data (Big Data), automation...
Ready high quality human resources
To take advantage of opportunities and promote advantages, the Government has issued the Semiconductor Industry Development Strategy to 2030 and Vision to 2050, with the goal of making Vietnam a global semiconductor human resource center by 2030 and a global semiconductor and electronics industry center by 2040. This goal is not only to participate in the global value chain, but also to build an advanced and attractive semiconductor industrial ecosystem in the region and the world, helping Vietnam to be self-reliant and develop sustainably in this field.
To achieve the goal, Vietnam has had solutions to realize it, focusing on developing human resources for Vietnam's semiconductor industry, with the expected goal by 2030 to train at least 50,000 human resources with university degrees or higher, 1,300 lecturers with specialized training in semiconductors, build national and grassroots laboratories to serve the training of human resources for the semiconductor industry, and build an attractive business environment with many incentives for high-tech enterprises.
The Ministry of Planning and Investment has assigned the Innovation Center to coordinate with the US Department of State and Arizona State University to launch and implement the program in Vietnam, with the goal of training more than 4,000 microchip packaging and testing engineers from now until the end of 2025. In addition, Vietnam is also actively cooperating with the US, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan (China), Europe... to jointly train human resources and develop the semiconductor and artificial intelligence industries.
Localities are also urgently preparing infrastructure and human resources to develop this industry. In particular, Bac Ninh province has issued a Resolution on supporting teachers, students at vocational training institutions, universities to train high-quality human resources and the semiconductor industry to serve the digital industry in the province.
Schools are also stepping up cooperation with semiconductor manufacturing enterprises in the province such as Samsung, Goertek Vina, Amkor... to improve training quality and increase the rate of students graduating and working in the right field. Ho Chi Minh City National University plans to implement policies to send lecturers and young staff to study and improve their expertise in advanced countries around the world. After learning new knowledge and technology, they will return to contribute to improving the quality of training in the semiconductor field...
"To welcome the wave of FDI investment in the semiconductor industry, Vietnam needs to develop high-quality human resources, invest in education and training specializing in the semiconductor industry, cooperate with international enterprises and organizations to improve training quality and meet the human resource needs of the industry. Improve and upgrade the infrastructure system, especially in the fields of energy and digital technology, to meet the high requirements of the semiconductor industry. In particular, it is necessary to create a favorable investment environment and develop the semiconductor industrial ecosystem" - Dr. Mac Quoc Anh - Director of the Institute of Economics and Enterprise Development.
(Posted on the special edition of Lao Dong Xuan At Ty)
