General Secretary To Lam: Innovation requires daring to think about extraordinary things

According to General Secretary To Lam, the origin of the innovation process is the spirit of daring to think about extraordinary things, daring to do the most difficult things, daring to shoulder responsibility before the people and history.

General Secretary To Lam speaks at the ceremony responding to the National Innovation Day 2025 - Photo: MAI HA

On October 1, General Secretary To Lam attended the ceremony to respond to the National Innovation Day 2025, with the theme "Innovation for all people - Driving force for national development", at Hoa Lac High-Tech Park ( Hanoi ).

The mandate of the times

Speaking at the ceremony, General Secretary To Lam said the world is moving at an unprecedented speed with artificial intelligence, big data, biotechnology, clean energy, and new materials. Any country that is one step ahead in science, technology , and innovation will have a strategic competitive advantage and move forward quickly and far; those who are slow to innovate will be left behind.

Vietnam has no choice but to consider science and technology, innovation and digital transformation as the top important breakthroughs and main driving forces to innovate the growth model and realize two 100-year goals: By 2030, to become a developing country with an upper middle income; by 2045, to become a developed, high-income country.

"This is not only an objective need, but also a command of the times, determining the nation's position in the next decade. No country can "take off" with poor science and technology and slow innovation activities," said General Secretary To Lam.

General Secretary To Lam emphasized that today's national innovation festival is not simply an event, a workshop or an activity or movement, but must identify the spirit of joining hands to bring value in a regular, practical and sustainable manner.

Innovation is not the destination of a nation, but must be a process of improvement that is repeated over and over again, without stopping. The origin of that process is the spirit of daring to think of extraordinary things, daring to do the most difficult things, daring to take responsibility before the people and history, daring to break through to open up paths that have not been touched by humans.

"Talk less, do more, do it quickly, do it right, do it thoroughly"

The General Secretary said that the initial results show that Vietnam is on the right track, but the pace of change in the world is faster than our ability to keep up. Therefore, from political determination to implementation, from awareness to action, we must transform faster and more strongly to turn ideas into values, and aspirations into reality.

The spirit is to talk less, do more, do it quickly, do it correctly, and do it thoroughly. With that spirit, the General Secretary proposed actions in six groups of tasks.

Firstly, unification in perception and action according to the viewpoint that innovation is not the sole task of the science and technology sector but must be the cause of the entire people and society, requiring the participation of all levels, all sectors, business communities of all economic sectors and all people.

Second, innovation must go hand in hand with the solid development of science and technology foundations, enhancing the level of strategic autonomy in national technology, first of all core technology and source technology.

The General Secretary requested that it is necessary to urgently deploy an action program to develop 11 strategic technologies in the spirit of Resolution 57, clearly defining a roadmap for mastery, especially technologies such as semiconductors, artificial intelligence, big data, safety, network security and a code of biotechnology, biomedicine, new materials, new energy, electronics, and robotic sensors.

Third, focus on perfecting institutions and outstanding policies for science and technology development and innovation. It is necessary to urgently institutionalize the Party's policies with clear laws, decrees, and circulars with high practicality, focusing on tax, credit, and land incentives for research and development activities for new products and services.

Fourth, deploy the national strategy on innovative startups, build a national innovation ecosystem that connects regionally and globally.

Fifth, effectively operate the three pillars of state creation: enterprises, centers, institutes, and schools are sources of knowledge. Enterprises must put research and development as a strategic focus and dare to invest for the future.

Sixth, combine innovation with sustainable development and international integration. Every innovation must solve social problems, increase productivity but reduce emissions, increase area but ensure data security, grow rapidly but leave no one behind.

NGUYEN BAO

Source: https://tuoitre.vn/tong-bi-thu-to-lam-doi-moi-sang-tao-phai-dam-nghi-ve-nhung-dieu-phi-thuong-20251001112528779.htm