In the first meeting and honoring of a number of typical digital technology enterprises (January 16, 2023), Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung emphasized the mission of Vietnamese enterprises, especially digital technology enterprises. That is the mission to help Vietnam become a dragon, a tiger, and a developed country with high income by 2045. Digital technology enterprises should attach their mission to the national mission, and attach their destiny to the national destiny. VietNamNet would like to introduce an article by Minister Nguyen Manh Hung.

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Minister Nguyen Manh Hung: Digital technology enterprises should take on a national mission as their own to lead the enterprise further.

Convenience does not usually create excellence.

In wartime, we honor the army, generals and soldiers. In peacetime, we honor businesses, entrepreneurs and workers.

Surely only those who have started, established and built an excellent business can understand the hardships, difficulties, hardships, risks, dangers, sacrifices and losses of a business leader. But only those who have built a business can fully feel the joy of success and the joy of dedication of an entrepreneur.

“Preserving the country and making it famous is the new mission of Vietnamese enterprises, especially Vietnamese Digital Technology enterprises” Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung

The leader must endure loneliness, that's why he is the leader. It's fate, it's heaven's will, there's no need to complain.

But it is precisely those challenges, dangers, and loneliness that have forged and tempered us into excellent businessmen. Advantages often do not create excellence. Hardships can. As an entrepreneur, you should not choose ease. Because ease creates mediocrity. And mediocrity cannot survive in competition.

Digital technology businesses should take on a national mission as their own to lead the business further.

Vietnam in history was a weak country, so it was often invaded. Nearly 1,000 years of Chinese domination, nearly 100 years of Western colonization, then many wars, each time it took decades to regain the country, to unify the country. And when it was regained, the country was devastated. It was rebuilt from scratch, only to have another invasion 50-70 years later and history repeated itself. For thousands of years, Vietnam has been like that, up and down, never rising to become a powerful country so that no enemy would dare to invade, so that peace would last long, so that it could build and accumulate over time to become a powerful, prosperous and happy country.

Can we change this destiny?

Developing countries that turn into dragons or tigers usually do so when a new industrial revolution occurs. This opportunity is coming, it is the fourth industrial revolution, which is mainly new generation digital technologies. But we must remember, the opportunity does not come to everyone, it only comes to a few, in each industrial revolution only a few countries turn into dragons, those are the countries that seize the opportunity and are brave and pioneering.

"Our generation was given the mission by Heaven, Earth, Ancestors, and History to use digital technology to turn Vietnam into a dragon, a tiger, to end the fate of thousands of years as a weak nation and country. Not being able to do this is a crime against history, a crime against our descendants. Not being able to do this means Vietnam will have to wait another 50 years, another 100 years, or longer, or forever" Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung

Who created this? Entrepreneurs, businesses. Excellent entrepreneurs, businesses. Right now, in the next 10 years, it is the digital technology businesses. So, our generation has been given the mission by Heaven, Earth, Fathers, and History to use digital technology to turn Vietnam into a dragon, a tiger, to end the fate of thousands of years of being a weak nation. Not being able to do this is a crime against history, a crime against our descendants. Not being able to do this means Vietnam will have to wait another 50 years, another 100 years, or longer, or forever.

Look at Viettel making the "magic crossbow", making 5G network equipment, going abroad with a revenue of over 3 billion USD; VinGroup making cars exported to the US; FPT doing information technology (IT), digital transformation for developed countries like Japan and the US and having a revenue of over 1 billion USD; Zalo is a Vietnamese application with an account number even on Facebook in Vietnam. These businesses, these businessmen inspire us, create confidence in us that "it can be done". If hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese digital technology businesses can do it, Vietnam will certainly become a dragon.

To transform into a dragon or a tiger, we must lead the country. We have the advantage of having a leading party. A leading party can mobilize and concentrate all resources of society and the country to accomplish great things: Vietnam will transform into a developed, high-income country by 2045. The 13th Party Congress has set this goal.

Businesses must make profits to survive and develop. But what comes after profits? Can it continue to be profits? After profits must be the mission to solve a problem, a pain of the country, of humanity, to make the country stronger, to make humanity happier. And also because of solving big problems, big pains, revenue and profits will also be greater. Therefore, excellent businesses, large businesses often take on a national mission as their own mission to lead the business further, to attach themselves more to the country. The country and the people will last forever. Businesses that attach themselves to it will also last forever.

The bigger a business is, the more people will see it, and the more successful it is, the more supervision it will have. Therefore, if a business wants to grow sustainably, the only way left is to respect the law. There are loopholes in the law, but if you are a big business, you should grow by creating value instead of exploiting loopholes in the law.

Important shifts

Our new perception of digital technology. Information technology is the industry of processing information, which is semantic. There are not many semantic things and processing them does not create much new value. Digital technology is the industry of processing digital data, which mainly consists of non-semantic things. Non-semantic things are infinite, millions of times larger than information, every 2 days the data generated is equivalent to the information of the previous 2,000 years. For the first time, technology has been able to digitize most of the real world, create unlimited digital data, and have the ability to transmit, store, and process big data. Digital technology processes non-semantic things to create new knowledge, new values ​​and create development.

Processing infinite and meaningless digital data to generate new values, the new values ​​will also be infinite. This is truly a new development of humanity.

Resolution 6 of the 13th Central Committee of the Party, October 2022, officially considered digital transformation as a new breakthrough development method, helping to accelerate and shorten the process of industrialization and modernization of the country; industrialization is digital transformation of the manufacturing and production sector; modernization is digital transformation of all sectors, including economy, culture, society and environment; digital technology industry becomes a foundation industry. Digital technology, especially artificial intelligence, will penetrate every industry, every field, every organization and every job. Previous industrial revolutions were mechanization, electrification and automation when machines replaced manual labor, but with the fourth industrial revolution, with its basic technology being digital technology, machines begin to replace mental labor, it helps every organization become smarter. This is the revolution of intelligence.

The next 10 years will be an important transition: from telecommunications infrastructure to digital infrastructure; from information technology to digital technology; from IT application to digital transformation; from limited information processing to unlimited digital data processing to create new values; from individual software to digital platforms; from processing and assembling to Make in Vietnam; from the domestic market to the international market; from journalism to digital media; digital technology becomes the basic productive force, digital talent becomes the basic resource, digital innovation becomes the basic driving force for development.

Bring glory to the country

Press, publishing and media instill the aspiration to “become a dragon or a tiger” in every Vietnamese person. Digital technology, digital talent and digital transformation create the wings of Vietnamese technology.

Established Vietnamese digital technology enterprises should respect the law, take on the mission of helping Vietnam become a dragon, a tiger, a developed country with high income by 2045, and link their mission with the national mission, and link their destiny with the national destiny. Preserving the country and making it famous is the new mission of Vietnamese enterprises, especially Vietnamese digital technology enterprises. Vietnamese enterprises not only make products to serve socio-economic development but also have to make weapons to protect Vietnam.

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