New method to accelerate industrialization and modernization of the country

Consider digital transformation as a new way to “take a shortcut”

Sharing with expatriates in Luxembourg on December 10, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said: “Digital transformation has crept into every corner of our lives”. The Prime Minister said that in the past, overseas Vietnamese who wanted to call or contact or send letters to their family members had to take a whole day to register. And now, wherever you go, just having a phone can do many necessary things. “From the moment you are born making a birth certificate to the moment you die, you make a death certificate all related to digital transformation. Digital transformation is present in all areas of life”. Prime Minister said.

Digital transformation is no longer a distant story but has become a habit in everyone’s daily life. From the office to the market, we can see the existence of digital transformation, bringing practical benefits to the life of every citizen.

The Resolution of the 13th Party Congress clearly states that one of the key tasks of this entire term is: “Promote research, transfer and application of scientific and technological advances and innovation, especially achievements of the fourth industrial revolution, implement national digital transformation, develop economic digital economy, improving productivity, quality, efficiency and competitiveness of the economy”.

Among the strategic breakthroughs mentioned in the Resolution, the Party also requires: Focus on developing information and telecommunications infrastructure, creating a foundation for national digital transformation, gradually developing the digital economy and digital society.

Previously, on September 27, 2019, the Politburo issued Resolution No. 52 on a number of guidelines and policies to actively participate in the fourth industrial revolution, which emphasized the urgent need to push speed up the digital conversion process. The Politburo sets out specific goals, by 2025, to basically complete the digital transformation in Party, State, Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations; belongs to the group of 4 leading countries in ASEAN in the ranking of e-government according to the assessment of the United Nations.

The core content of the policy to actively participate in the fourth industrial revolution of our country is to promote the development of science, technology and innovation in all branches and fields; promoting national digital transformation, focusing on developing the digital economy, building smart cities, e-government, moving towards digital government.

Speaking at the closing of the 6th Central Conference in October 2022, General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong emphasized: “Consider digital transformation as a new breakthrough method to shorten the process of industrialization and modernization”.

This message of the General Secretary was then clearly expressed in Resolution No. 29 of the 6th Party Central Committee, term XIII on continuing to promote industrialization and modernization of the country until 2030, with a vision to 2045.

Talking to VietNamNet, Politburo member, Head of the Central Economic Commission Tran Tuan Anh emphasized one of the guiding views of the Party stated in Resolution No. 29: “Digital transformation is a breakthrough new method to shorten the process of industrialization and modernization”. “In the context of the impact of the fourth industrial revolution, we consider digital transformation as a new way to take shortcuts and speed up progress, a very important foundation for success. of industrialization and modernization of the country”the head of the Central Economic Commission said.

According to Mr. Tran Tuan Anh’s analysis, one of the reasons that the Party issued a separate resolution on industrialization and modernization for the first time was because of the strong impact of the fourth industrial revolution. new, modern, rapidly changing technologies are posing new problems for the country.

Prioritize digital transformation investment resources

Resolution No. 29 sets specific targets by 2030: The proportion of the digital economy will reach about 30% of GDP; completed building a digital government, in the top 50 countries in the world and ranked 3rd in the ASEAN region in terms of e-government and digital economy.

Since then, the Central Government has set out key tasks and solutions to promote industrialization and modernization of the country with many solutions related to digital transformation comprehensively in most economic fields. – society.

The top task and solution set by the Party is to “renovate thinking, awareness and drastic action, continue to accelerate industrialization and modernization of the country”.

In particular, the Central Committee identified the core content of the cause of industrialization and modernization of the country in the 2021-2030 period as promoting strong application of science – technology, innovation, especially achievements. of the fourth industrial revolution, creating breakthroughs in productivity, quality, efficiency and competitiveness of industries, fields and the whole economy; implement a comprehensive, substantive, effective and sustainable digital transformation.

As for building and perfecting institutions and policies to promote industrialization and modernization of the country, Resolution No. 29 states: “Building a legal framework for the development of the digital economy, digital society and government number; promulgate a controlled testing mechanism, pilot policies, specific to the development, testing and application of digital technology-based products, solutions, services, and business models, and digital platform”.

The Central Government also requested to continue to perfect policies and laws, promote socialization to restructure service industries based on modern technology, especially in the fields of: e-commerce, finance finance, banking, insurance, healthcare, education, logistics, tourism, new services of the digital economy…

In the solutions to build a strong, self-reliant and self-reliant national industry, the Party prioritizes resources and has strong enough incentive mechanisms and policies to develop priority fields of industries. platform industries, including digital technology. Specifically, priority is given to the development of artificial intelligence, big data, blockchain, cloud computing, Internet of things, electronics – telecommunications equipment, design and production of semiconductor chips.

In order to accelerate the industrialization and modernization of rural areas and continue to restructure the service industry based on the foundation of science – technology and innovation, the Central Government emphasizes on promoting comprehensive digital transformation, in fact, the efficiency of agriculture and rural areas. In which, priority should be given to allocating resources and having specific mechanisms and policies to effectively socialize and implement digital transformation in new rural construction, towards a smart new rural area in the 2021-2025 period. .

Digital transformation must be for people and businesses to benefit

From the perspective of the executive agency, the Government and the Prime Minister have also issued many decisions concretizing the Party’s guidelines and policies on digital transformation.

Right in the early days of 2022, the Prime Minister issued Decision No. 06 approving the project “Developing the application of population data, identification and electronic authentication for national digital transformation in the period of 2022 – 2025, vision to 2030” (referred to as Project 06).

The Prime Minister asked to mobilize the participation of the whole political system, especially the heads of ministries, branches and localities. At the same time, the participation of organizations, businesses and people must be considered as a decisive factor; Synchronous action in ministries, branches and localities is a factor to ensure the success of digital transformation. Population data, electronic identification and authentication are the basis for digital transformation in ways of living, working and production methods based on digital technologies. People and businesses are at the heart of digital transformation. The implementation, development and application of residential data must be associated with the goal of enriching data, creating a foundation for digital transformation activities in society…

The key content of Project 06 is to ensure the national database on population is “correct, sufficient, clean, alive” through the entire process of creating, cleaning, updating and exploiting utilities for citizen data in the priority areas of national digital transformation.

On April 22, 2022, the Prime Minister issued Decision No. 505 taking October 10 every year as “National Digital Transformation Day”.

In the first year of the National Digital Transformation Day being held, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh gave many remarkable messages: Along with the trend of green transformation, digital transformation is an inevitable and objective trend that is taking place. very powerful, far-reaching and daily. Digital transformation contributes to bringing into play the strength of the nation and the power of the times, internal and external resources, effectively solving the relationships between the State, the market and society, making 3 breakthroughs. strategy on institutions, infrastructure and human resources, promoting economic growth. Digital transformation also improves labor productivity, competitiveness and efficiency of production and business; sale off; reduce administrative procedures, troubles, time and costs for people and businesses; help governments at all levels improve management capacity and effective administration.

The Government’s National Digital Transformation Program to 2025, with a vision to 2030, has been implemented in the direction of comprehensive digital transformation with the participation of the people, business community and agencies, the Prime Minister said. state Administration.

“The Government’s cross-cutting point of view is to make people and businesses the center, the subject, the goal, and the driving force and resource of digital transformation. Digital transformation must let people and businesses benefit from public services and social utilities more conveniently, faster and more efficiently, and they themselves will create resources for development.”the Prime Minister affirmed.

Since then, the head of the Government requested to focus on perfecting mechanisms and policies, effectively implementing the National Digital Transformation Strategy. Synchronously develop both institutions, digital infrastructure, digital platforms and digital human resources. Along with that is to improve the rate of administrative procedures handled online; avoid all thinking about information, data, data, local, fear of losing benefits and collision…

Gia Nguyen

(Posted in the Vietnam Post newspaper, issue of Xuan Quy Mao 2023)