51 projects won the 4th Ho Chi Minh City Innovation Award 2025

Deputy Secretary of the City Party Committee, Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee Nguyen Van Duoc congratulated the authors and groups of authors. Photo by Thanh Dung.

Attending the ceremony were comrades: Nguyen Van Duoc, member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Secretary of the City Party Committee, Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee; Nguyen Phuoc Loc, Deputy Secretary of the City Party Committee, Chairman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Ho Chi Minh City; Dang Minh Thong, Deputy Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee...

According to the Organizing Committee, the 4th Ho Chi Minh City Innovation Award 2025 was launched on September 8, 2023, receiving 292 projects, works, solutions, and topics registered to participate.

Specifically, the 7 fields include: Field 1 ( economic development); Field 2 (defense and security); Field 3 (state management); Field 4 (communication); Field 5 (literature and art); Field 6 (science and technology); Field 7 (creative startups).

Also according to the Organizing Committee, through many selection sessions, the 4th Ho Chi Minh City Innovation Award Council 2025 has selected 51 outstanding works, solutions, topics and works to award prizes including: 4 First prizes, 15 Second prizes and 32 Third prizes.

Deputy Secretary of the City Party Committee, Chairman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Ho Chi Minh City Nguyen Phuoc Loc congratulated the award-winning author. Photo by Thanh Dung.

In particular, the project "Ho Chi Minh City River Festival" of the Department of Tourism was awarded First Prize in Group 1 (Economic Development); the solution "Application of information technology and electronic data in detecting, investigating, and handling violations and negative acts in the field of vehicle registration" by a group of authors from the Ho Chi Minh City Police won First Prize in Group 2 (National Defense and Security); in the field of Communications (field 4), the program "Pho Day 12/12" by a group of authors from Tuoi Tre Newspaper was awarded First Prize; the play "Comrade" by the Ho Chi Minh City Theater Association won First Prize in Group 5 (Literature and Arts).

The Ho Chi Minh City Innovation Award is a prestigious award of the city given to agencies, units, businesses, individuals of Vietnamese and overseas Vietnamese, with research projects, solutions, innovative products and services contributing to the development of the city. The prize money for the first prize is 200 million VND, the second prize is 150 million VND, the third prize is 100 million VND.

After 4 times of organization, Ho Chi Minh City Creativity Award has honored 237 typical works, topics and projects.

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