In the context of transition to a green economic model, circular economy and sustainable development, the environmental industry (CNMT) is being identified as one of the key economic sectors, playing a key role in enhancing technological autonomy, improving productivity and growth quality. This is also a field with great potential to attract investment, promote innovation and support the process of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and adapting to climate change.
Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha requested the Ministry of Industry and Trade to review issued institutions and policies and propose to supplement missing regulations, especially in the fields of tax and finance - Photo: VGP/Minh Khoi
Building CNMT into an independent and competitive economic sector
According to the draft Program, the general goal is to build and develop the environmental industry into an independent economic sector, making important contributions to the national economic structure. The industry must meet domestic needs for environmental protection, while also being able to participate in the global supply chain of environmental technology, equipment, and products.
Some specific goals of the Program are that by 2030, technology, equipment and products of the environmental industry must meet 60-80% of domestic demand in the fields of wastewater treatment, exhaust gas, solid waste, hazardous waste and environmental measurement. This rate will increase to 80-90% by 2035. In addition, the industry needs to gradually form a domestic environmental goods market and develop the capacity to export equipment and products with competitive advantages.
One of the major orientations is to take private enterprises as the center, support them through preferential mechanisms on green credit, tax policies, investment incentives, promote the formation of an innovative ecosystem in CNMT. Along with that are synchronous solutions on institutions, technical standards and regulations, market development and data infrastructure.
The program emphasizes the role of scientific research, technology transfer and new product development - especially advanced technologies in waste treatment, recycling, energy saving, and smart manufacturing. Products applying biotechnology, sensors, automatic control, and smart management software are encouraged to develop and put into production.
At the same time, training and developing high-quality human resources for CNMT is also considered a key solution. The program will build a national database on human resource needs, organize training for state management officials and enterprises, and form a team of experts with the capacity to access technology and international markets.
Commenting on the draft, delegates emphasized the need to correctly and accurately identify priority tasks, meeting the practical requirements of developing the IT industry; creating a "playground for businesses", having preferential policies on taxes, land, and rental prices to create real motivation for businesses; supporting technology transfer, investment in domestic production and localization of equipment; specifying the ministries and branches in charge, implementation time, and ensuring feasible output results with focus and key points.
In addition, there are opinions that it is necessary to supplement mechanisms and regulations to mobilize resources: career expenditure, public investment, socialization, ODA, FDI.
Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Environment Le Cong Thanh said that it is necessary to refer to international experience in building industrial parks specializing in recycling, water technology or waste treatment; adding a task group to develop the industry of treating construction waste, agriculture and solar battery recycling...
Emphasizing the leading role of private enterprises, the Deputy Prime Minister noted that in areas with high costs, high risks or where there are no capable private enterprises, the public sector needs to take the lead and pave the way - Photo: VGP/Minh Khoi
Perfecting institutions and policies to support environmental businesses
Concluding the meeting, Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha assessed that the draft Program only stopped at the level of action orientation, the content was still general, lacking in quantity, did not clearly identify the presiding agency, implementing unit, did not have a specific implementation plan or performance measurement goals. The Ministry of Industry and Trade must review the approach, establish specific goals and a clear implementation roadmap for each stage of IT development.
In the immediate future, by 2025, it is necessary to clearly identify that the environmental industry - including the service sector - must become an important economic sector, playing a strategic role in ensuring independence and autonomy in dealing with the country's environmental challenges, moving towards exporting environmental technology, products and services.
Each field in the CNMT needs to have specific goals. For example, waste treatment sets the target of thoroughly treating domestic solid waste, hazardous waste, urban and industrial wastewater. Circular economy determines the rate of recycling and reuse in industry, construction, and mining. Clean energy specifies the application rate in production, transportation, and construction. Environmental monitoring clarifies the number of monitoring stations, the level of automation, and coverage. Environmental services aim to build a diverse ecosystem with the participation of many economic sectors.
"The goals must be linked to domestic technological capacity, from partial imports to complete mastery, gradually reducing dependence on imported equipment," the Deputy Prime Minister emphasized.
The Deputy Prime Minister requested the Ministry of Industry and Trade to review the issued institutions and policies and propose to supplement the missing regulations. Especially in the field of tax and finance, it is necessary to consider adjusting import tax and corporate income tax in accordance with the characteristics of enterprises in the environmental sector; have a mechanism to encourage technology transfer when investing, incentives when meeting standards; support research and development (R&D), technology transfer, and human resource training for the environmental industry, including the use of established funds (environmental fund, innovation fund, science and technology fund, etc.).
The program also needs to clearly assign roles and specific tasks in research, production, investment, and promulgation of standards and regulations. At the same time, clearly define the list of priority technologies for development in the period 2025-2030, including: Waste-to-energy technology; urban/industrial wastewater treatment; recycled construction materials; recycling waste from renewable energy (solar power, wind power); environmental monitoring systems; bioplastics, green materials... Each list needs to be grouped: conditional import, domestic production encouraged, and mandatory technology transfer.
Emphasizing the leading role of private enterprises, the Deputy Prime Minister noted that in areas with high costs, high risks or where there are no capable private enterprises, the public sector needs to take the lead and pave the way - such as hazardous waste treatment, development of environmentally friendly materials, large-scale environmental monitoring, waste recycling technology, wind power, solar power, etc.
State-owned enterprises in the fields of energy, construction and industry need to be assigned to carry out model projects on environmental protection to serve as a basis for replication nationwide.
Along with that, it is necessary to promote public-private cooperation in research and production of new products. The State supports capital, infrastructure and human resource training; enterprises implement, operate and commercialize products. At the same time, build national environmental industry centers, focus on production capacity, transfer and innovation, instead of implementing scattered, small-scale and ineffective implementation.
Minh Khoi
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