On November 15, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, Head of the Government's Steering Committee on science and technology development, innovation, digital transformation and Project 06, chaired the 5th meeting of the Steering Committee.
View of the meeting.
In 2026, 95 trillion VND of the budget will be spent on science and technology.
The report at the meeting said that since the beginning of the year, the Government has submitted to the National Assembly for approval 19 draft laws and 10 resolutions related to science and technology, innovation, and digital transformation.
In October 2025, the Government issued 10 Decrees directly related to science and technology, innovation, and digital transformation. In the past 10 months, the Government has issued 22 Decrees.
Regarding the budget, the Government has added about 25 trillion VND to the budget for science and technology development, innovation, and digital transformation in 2025; submitted to the National Assembly for approval a Resolution on the central budget allocation plan for 2026, including the science and technology sector, and is expected to allocate about 95 trillion VND of the budget for this sector.
Regarding the direction for the coming time, the Prime Minister requested ministries, localities, agencies and units to effectively implement Resolution 57 of the Politburo, Plan 02 of the Central Steering Committee, directions of General Secretary To Lam, resolutions of the National Assembly, the Government and directions of the Prime Minister.
The development of science and technology, innovation, digital transformation must be fast, strong but sustainable, develop extensively but must be secure and safe, promote the transformation from passively receiving people's procedures to proactively creating development, serving people and businesses.
The Prime Minister directed all ministries, branches and localities to focus on completing the database in 2025, in the spirit of "Correct - sufficient - clean - living - unified - shared". Along with that, perfecting the institution in the direction of openness, creation and development. Closely coordinate with the National Assembly's agencies on 8 draft laws submitted to the National Assembly for consideration and promulgation at the 10th Session of the 15th National Assembly, and promptly complete and promulgate decrees and guidelines in accordance with the effective date of the law.
The Prime Minister also emphasized the need to complete a seamless, modern, shared digital infrastructure, especially at the grassroots level, including electricity and telecommunications infrastructure. If the invested infrastructure cannot be shared, appropriate solutions must be studied; at the same time, creatively apply legal regulations, promptly invest in new, timely, and effective digital infrastructure, and prevent corruption, waste, and negativity.
In addition, the Prime Minister noted that ministries, branches and localities should pay attention to arranging enough human resources for digital transformation, especially at the grassroots level (communes, wards, and special zones). Promote the "Digital Education for All" movement, promote the role of community digital technology teams, go to every alley, knock on every door, and check every person to promote digital transformation for the entire population.
Cut down and simplify procedures to avoid causing trouble for people
Directing key tasks, the Prime Minister requested to urgently develop and promulgate a digital transformation strategy and a data strategy, in which the Ministries, agencies of Agriculture and Environment, Health, Culture, Sports and Tourism, and the Government Inspectorate must soon issue them before November 25, 2025.
To promote the reduction and simplification of administrative procedures, ministries and branches must urgently review, revise and unify the process of restructuring online public services to reduce the number of documents, avoiding causing inconvenience to people when the data is complete.
In particular, ministries, branches and localities focused on amending and supplementing 322 legal documents according to the plan approved by the Prime Minister; reviewing and amending regulations that are not suitable for the implementation of administrative procedures regardless of administrative boundaries and full-process online public services; completing the target of 100% of administrative procedures related to enterprises being carried out online and 100% of administrative procedures being carried out regardless of administrative boundaries at the provincial level.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh gave a speech at the meeting.
Regarding the task of developing science and technology, innovation, and digital transformation, the Prime Minister assigned the Ministry of Science and Technology to submit to the Prime Minister a national program to develop priority strategic technology products to be implemented in 2025.
The Ministry of Public Security will research and develop utilities to support the election of National Assembly deputies and People's Council deputies at all levels on VNeID; speed up the progress, put into operation and use of National Data Center No. 1, expand the scale and computing infrastructure of the Center, research and propose to build National Data Center No. 2; develop a Government Resolution on digital citizens, digital society, and digital Government, to be completed before December 15.
Source: https://mst.gov.vn/thu-tuong-tat-ca-cac-bo-nganh-dia-phuong-tap-trung-hoan-thanh-co-so-du-lieu-trong-nam-2025-197251119101151294.htm
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