Speaking at the opening of the conference, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh confirmed the great contribution of enterprises, especially large corporations, to the country's development. Businesses have actively participated in preventing and combating the COVID-19 pandemic, overcoming the consequences of the pandemic, and helping the country overcome current difficulties.

Chinh said the Government sympathizes with businesses facing challenges and is committed to resolving problems, particularly institutional bottlenecks, which are "bottlenecks of bottlenecks" and helping them make "breakthroughs of breakthroughs."

FPT chair suggests popularizing AI

Truong Gia Binh, Chair of FPT and Head of the Private Economic Development Research Board (Board IV), said people are excited now and have great hope as Vietnam is entering a new era and will become a powerful and prosperous country.

He stressed that now is the time to take action to develop and not miss great opportunities. And in order to do this, Binh suggested ‘liberating’ science and technology potential.

“From my research, I see a relationship between GDP growth and the potential of science and technology, which can be described by an upward parabolic graph, meaning that once GDP grows, the science and technology level also develops,” Binh said. 

“With current great opportunities, I propose popularizing AI,” he said.

“In the past, during the toughest years of resistance when the government was weak and poor, President Ho Chi Minh put forward the ‘binh dan hoc vu’ movement (Mass Education). And now, it is the time for AI popularization,” he added.

Recently, the world has heard about DeepSeek, the Chinese product that popularizes AI. With DeepSeek, people believe that small companies can also apply and use AI.

He believes that it would be better to include AI in training programs of all educational systems. FPT has begun including AI in its curriculum for first graders. However, he hopes that this will be implemented on a large scale throughout the country, which would help Vietnam soon become an AI powerhouse.

Resolution 57 

CMC president Nguyen Trung Chinh, who attended the meeting, commented that currently the term ‘science’ is not connected with technology, while the term ‘technology’ is not connected with markets and business. CMC hopes that the merger of the Ministry of Science and Technology (MST) and the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) will address this problem.

Chinh said the Resolution 57 was built as a strategic map which will help the country develop strongly. 

“In 2024, we declared our AI transition strategy, suggesting to the Government that AI shoukd take advantage of the technological capabilities that Vietnamese people possess to build the nation," he reminded.

"On January 21 at Davos, we declared this transformation strategy. We suggested that in future trips to Davos, we should have a 'Vietnam House' there. If so, all our technology firms can introduce their ideas to the world," he said.

At the meeting, CMC stated that it has accepted to implement two national tasks. First, building cloud computing infrastructure which would not only be No1 in Vietnam, but also in the whole region. Regarding the investment scale, he said it would have the capacity of 80MW, or twice as much as Vietnam’s current total capacity (about 50MW).

Second, building C.OpenAI. CMC declared the building of C.Open in 2017, and it has become C.OpenAI, which means building Core AI for Vietnamese, using Vietnamese intelligence and used by Vietnamese people.

Trung is looking forward to new policies that will help CMC solve existing problems.

First, the state needs to perfect its institutional regime, requesting ministries, sectors, and localities to commit to a timeline for resolving business execution issues. 

Second, CMC plans to invest $700 million to $1 billion in technical infrastructure in the next five years. However, CMC is concerned about financing. CMC hopes for a development support fund but is uncertain if it can borrow $700 million. CMC wants a policy for borrowing at preferential interest rates for 10 years.

Third, CMC is running training programs and wants to open new branches in localities. However, to do this, it needs to have 2 hectares of land.

Binh Minh