The Prime Minister chaired a meeting of the Steering Committee on Science, Technology, Innovation and Digital Transformation. Photo: VIET CHUNG
Cut and simplify 872 administrative procedures and 118 business conditions
Information at the meeting showed that breakthrough work in science and technology development, innovation, digital transformation and Project 06 has had positive changes recently.
In particular, administrative procedure reform (AP) continued to be implemented vigorously; 872 APs and 118 business conditions were reduced and simplified. The digital economy has developed quite well, with the export value of digital products estimated at 78.1 billion USD, up 20.5% over the same period. Non-cash payments increased by 45.4% in quantity and 25.2% in value; 70% of consumers in major cities have used non-cash payments daily. The VND500,000 billion credit package for science and technology, innovation, digital transformation and strategic infrastructure has been actively implemented. E-commerce has developed strongly, growing by about 22-25%.
Digital government is promoted, effectively implementing the operation of 2-level local governments associated with the development of digital government. The rate of online records in the entire process out of the total records of administrative procedure settlement in the first 6 months of 2025 reached 39.51%. The National Public Service Portal becomes a window of the country. Many utilities serving socio-economic development are effectively and widely deployed (116 million customer records at banks are compared with biometric information, double that of 2024; nearly 5,000 flights at Noi Bai and Tan Son Nhat airports use biometric identification to check in for flights)...
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh speaks at the 3rd meeting of the Government Steering Committee on Science and Technology Development, Innovation, Digital Transformation and Project 06 on the morning of July 20. Photo: VIET CHUNG
Have special treatment policies to attract experts
Speaking at the conference, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said that the Government has determined a GDP growth rate of 8.3-8.5% in 2025, fast growth, high growth but must be sustainable. In particular, developing science and technology, innovation, and digital transformation are important solutions. The Government also allocates additional sources of revenue increase and expenditure savings to meet the requirement of allocating at least 3% of total budget expenditure for breakthroughs in science and technology development, innovation, and digital transformation.
With the motto "Refined apparatus - Connected data - Smart governance", the Prime Minister directed leaders of ministries, branches and localities at two levels to focus on building databases for ministries, branches, agencies and localities, ensuring "right enough, clean and healthy living". At the same time, the Prime Minister requested to urgently establish visual management tools and a quantitative indicator system (KPI) to evaluate assigned tasks related to science and technology development, innovation and digital transformation.
The Prime Minister requested to step up the review, construction and improvement of institutions, identifying institutional breakthroughs as "breakthroughs of breakthroughs", and must be done early and ahead to pave the way for development. Developing science and technology and innovation are important and key driving forces to improve productivity, quality, efficiency and competitiveness of the economy.
The Ministry of Home Affairs develops criteria, management regulations, working regimes, remuneration and recruitment processes for chief engineers and chief architects to deploy strategic systems and breakthrough initiatives for the Prime Minister to consider and decide in July; develops and promulgates mechanisms and policies to attract human resources, science and technology talents, innovation, and digital transformation at home and abroad; has special remuneration policies to attract at least 100 leading experts to return to work in the country, to be completed in August.
The Prime Minister chaired a meeting of the Steering Committee on Science, Technology, Innovation and Digital Transformation. Photo: VIET CHUNG
Each ministry, sector and locality selects a chief engineer for information technology and a chief engineer for professional activities to coordinate with the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Science and Technology and technology enterprises to build the architecture and digital transformation strategy of the ministry and sector.
Regarding digital transformation, the Prime Minister emphasized that this is a strategic breakthrough task, determining the effectiveness of national governance, promoting the development of the digital economy, digital society, digital citizens, and leaving no one behind.
The Ministry of Construction will preside over and coordinate with the Ministry of Science and Technology and six centrally-run cities to review, develop, and approve the smart city project in July and organize its implementation in 2025.
The Ministry of Finance reports to the Prime Minister on the proportion of added value of the digital economy in GDP. The Ministry of Science and Technology advises the Government on solutions to achieve a digital economy scale of 20% of GDP by the end of 2025.
The Ministry of Public Security is stepping up the implementation of tasks under Project 06, including early completion of 40/61 utilities on the VNeID platform to serve socio-economic development and social management; coordinating with ministries and branches to cut, reduce, and simplify 324 administrative procedures with documents integrated and shared in the VNeID application; deploying the connection of prescriptions from hospitals to the medical data coordination system and pharmacies for synchronous integration on VNeID. People can connect prescription data and receive medicine at home, piloted from August and officially deployed in September...
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