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Hi-tech industries strategy in the making
A strategy on industries given priority for hi-tech application for 2020 was the major topic for discussion at a workshop held in Hanoi on August 18, with focus laid on investment and human resources.
Electronics-information technology, engineering, metallurgy, chemistry, food and energy industries are subject to the strategy.
The scheme called for increasing investment in scientific research in the target groups from 0.2-0.3 percent of revenues at present to 3.5-5 percent by 2015 and 8-10 percent by 2020.
Investment in technological upgrade is expected to increase from the current 8-10 percent to 10-15 percent by 2015 and 20 percent by 2020 while investment in human resources development should intensify, read the draft strategy.
Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Do Huu Hao acknowledged a number of weak points that has hindered the application of high technology.
First, financial weakness as well as poor management and personnel shortage have enabled only a limited number of Vietnamese enterprises to apply high technology to production or produce hi-tech products on the industrial scale.
Second, the current legal system has failed to encourage the application of high technology among industries.
“Slow progress made in building hi-tech industrial zones, home to hi-tech investments and human resources training centres, is another hindrance to high technology development,” concluded the deputy minister.
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