Secretary Nguyen Van Nen: Building a special area for the innovative startup community

During the meeting with the innovation community, Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Van Nen emphasized that Ho Chi Minh City must create an open and healthy business environment and have a mechanism for cooperation and coordination, creating close relationships between parties, between businesses and researchers, teachers, journalists, and the state.

On March 28, the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City organized a meeting with the innovation community of Ho Chi Minh City. Attending the meeting were comrades: Nguyen Van Nen, Politburo member, Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee; Phan Van Mai, Central Party Committee member, Deputy Secretary of the City Party Committee, Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee; and nearly 30 prestigious experts and innovation entrepreneurs in Vietnam.

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Discussing the aspirations of businesses, Dr. Gian Tu Trung, Principal of PACE Business School, Director of IRED Education Institute, acknowledged that all businesses, whether newly established or long-standing, must have within them the aspiration and spirit of innovation.

Dr. Gian Tu Trung discusses the aspirations of businesses. Photo: CAO THANG

To foster the spirit of innovation, he believes that the role of the state and schools is needed, in which the self-aspiration of enterprises is important and sustainable. According to Dr. Gian Tu Trung, business is making money by serving society, through good products and services of enterprises in general, and innovative enterprises in particular.

Secretary Nguyen Van Nen attentively listens to opinions from the innovation community. Photo: CAO THANG

Experts, entrepreneurs, businessmen, etc. also frankly shared and gave opinions to the leaders of Ho Chi Minh City on issues related to the environment, traffic, and policy mechanisms to support the business community in the field of innovation.

Delegates at the meeting. Photo: CAO THANG

Besides the efforts of businesses, opinions say that support from the Ho Chi Minh City government is needed, through specific support policies such as planning and goals for each field.

Some other businesses are interested in the environmental field and recommend that the city needs to build a vision in building green infrastructure for transportation to ensure that the green transportation transition does not lag behind the world 's development.

Mr. Nguyen Van Thanh (General Director of GSM Company) said that the city's green transformation policy is not really outstanding, especially in terms of targeting green consumers and green production... He looks forward to these policies to support innovative start-up businesses.

Representatives of the innovation community in Ho Chi Minh City speak. Photo: CAO THANG

In the same field of electric vehicle manufacturing, Mr. Nguyen Huu Phuoc Nguyen (Director of Selex Smart Electric Vehicle Joint Stock Company) hopes that the city will have a policy on shared energy infrastructure for electric vehicles to convert to green transportation faster, such as building charging stations, battery sharing stations and even supporting prices for consumers... He proposed that first, Ho Chi Minh City should focus on converting in the group of freight transport enterprises.

Delegates attending the meeting. Photo: CAO THANG

Regarding attracting human resources for the field of innovation, Mr. Nguyen Ba Diep, Vice President of MoMo, suggested that the city needs to be more specific in its policies to support innovative startups, especially policies to attract and develop human resources. Because innovative startups need high-quality human resources, including attracting high-quality human resources from abroad.

Create a clean, healthy environment

The Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee emphasized that the city is concretizing Resolution 98 of the National Assembly, with many mechanisms and policies related to science and technology development, leading to innovative startups.

The city is urgently completing and proposing policies on green development, including policies that impact producers and consumers in areas such as green energy infrastructure, green transport conversion, carbon credits; and applying green technology in a number of areas.

Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee talks with the innovation community. Photo: CAO THANG

Outlining six basic things that the Ho Chi Minh City government needs to do to build an innovative community in the city, Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Van Nen suggested that the Ho Chi Minh City government prepare infrastructure and plan special areas such as high-tech zones for the innovative startup community.

Along with that, there are specific financial and capital support policies for businesses, not general ones; there are policies to train high-quality human resources.

Regarding policies to encourage and attract investors and resources, he emphasized that there must be outstanding mechanisms and policies associated with the concretization of Resolution 98 of the National Assembly.

Secretary Nguyen Van Nen emphasized that it is necessary to create an open and healthy business environment; have a mechanism for cooperation and coordination, and create close relationships between parties, between businesses and researchers, teachers, journalists, and the state.

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