On the morning of December 14, at the Government headquarters, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, Head of the National Steering Committee for Semiconductor Industry Development, chaired the first meeting of the Steering Committee.
Previously, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh signed Decision No. 791/QD-TTg on the establishment of the National Steering Committee for the development of the semiconductor industry.
The Steering Committee is an interdisciplinary coordination organization, whose function is to assist the Government and the Prime Minister in researching, directing, and coordinating the resolution of important, interdisciplinary tasks related to promoting the development of the semiconductor industry in Vietnam.
The Steering Committee is responsible for researching, advising, recommending, and proposing directions and solutions to promote the development of the semiconductor industry in Vietnam; directing and coordinating between ministries, ministerial-level agencies, government agencies, and relevant agencies and organizations to promote the development of the semiconductor industry in Vietnam.
Speaking at the opening of the first meeting of the Steering Committee, the Prime Minister stated that digital transformation, green transformation, circular economy development, smart economy, knowledge economy, sharing economy, and night-time economy are the goals and orientations of the world. If Vietnam wants to combine national strength and the times, it must follow the right direction of the times, accurately assess the situation, and respond with timely, appropriate, and effective policies, in the spirit of "keeping up, advancing together, and surpassing".
In the coming period, we must achieve two 100-year goals (by 2030, the 100th anniversary of the Party's founding and by 2045, the 100th anniversary of the country's founding), which requires breakthroughs, especially in economic growth; economic growth will lead to an increase in GDP scale, an increase in per capita income, an increase in labor productivity, an improvement in the material and spiritual life of the people, and an elevation of the country's position.
The Prime Minister stated that to promote growth, along with renewing traditional growth drivers such as investment, export, and consumption, it is necessary to promote new growth drivers, in which digital transformation is a major driving force that countries are focusing on and shifting, considering this a revolution that establishes a new historical process and world order.
Suggesting some major orientations, the Prime Minister stated that it is necessary to raise awareness and have breakthrough thinking about the position, role and importance of new growth drivers, especially artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, and cloud computing; perfect institutions, give priority to selected industries; develop infrastructure, including electricity infrastructure; and train human resources.
The Prime Minister requested ministries and branches to urgently implement the "Human Resource Development Program for the Semiconductor Industry to 2030, with a vision to 2050" and the "Semiconductor Industry Development Strategy to 2030".
The Prime Minister also noted that digital transformation is very broad, but the core is research and development of artificial intelligence based on data; Vietnam's artificial intelligence must be based on Vietnam's data.
Emphasizing that the current situation is very favorable, the head of the Government requested that after issuing the meeting's conclusions, ministries and branches need to urgently get involved, actively and proactively implement tasks with high determination, great efforts, drastic actions, focus, quickly seize opportunities, turn into concrete actions, do each task properly, finish each task to turn the situation around and change the state.
