Hanoi wants to 'bring technology into each industry with advantages to create new products'

The information was shared by Mr. Nguyen Van Phong, Deputy Secretary of the Hanoi Party Committee, at the Conference summarizing one year and six months of implementing Resolution 57 on developing science, technology, innovation and digital transformation, on July 1.

According to Mr. Phong, one of Hanoi's breakthrough solutions in the coming time is to make science and technology, innovation and digital transformation "truly become the driving force for economic restructuring and innovation of growth models". Based on the Capital Law and Resolution 57, the city concretized eight thematic resolutions passed in June.

"Introducing technology into each industry and each field that has Hanoi's advantages to create new products, such as cultural industry, tourism, digital cultural products, craft villages, and e-commerce," Mr. Phong said.

He gave the example of bringing technology into smart urban management, such as AI camera systems that support smart traffic signal control, congestion prediction, and real-time traffic warnings. These are the steps to create a data platform to serve the city's smart urban command, control and governance.

Hanoi Deputy Secretary also said that it will build an innovation ecosystem from human resource training to the technology market. The city aims to associate technical universities and research institutes with high-tech parks, businesses and actual market needs, and at the same time develop "technology absorption spaces" such as Hoa Lac High-Tech Park, new generation industrial parks, technology trading floors, controlled testing mechanisms (sandbox), venture capital funds and large business networks.

Previously, in the sharing about operating the two-level local government model on a digital platform, he said that from practical implementation, the new model "not only reduces the middle class, but is a fundamental step to innovate local governance methods", in the direction of streamlining processes, developing data, clarifying responsibilities and innovating service methods.

In particular, digital transformation, data and innovation are considered by Hanoi as the "core" of the operating method, helping the city to be managed more intelligently, creating a foundation for high, sustainable growth.

Hanoi has deployed the HanoiWork shared digital workspace system to track tasks, warn of late tasks and visually display progress. Currently, the platform has been deployed in 179 units with more than 77,000 employees, managing nearly 240,000 tasks in real time instead of operating methods mainly based on periodic reports.

In administrative reform, Hanoi said it has resolved more than 700,000 records regardless of residence, restructured more than 2,000 administrative procedures and achieved a data reuse rate of over 97%. The iHanoi platform has 6.21 million accounts, recorded about 186 million visits and received more than 107,000 feedback and recommendations from people.

Regarding data infrastructure, the city has exploited a database of more than 2.1 million land plots, published 93 open data sets and built 9.2 million electronic health records, equivalent to nearly 99% of the population. According to the plan, Hanoi will complete the standardization of 93 databases to serve state management and administrative procedures in 2026.

Mr. Phong said the city has identified 30 major problems that need to be researched and to date, more than 100 topics have registered to participate. Hanoi also decided to support about 1,000 billion VND to build two key laboratories at Hanoi University of Science and Technology and Hanoi Medical University.

In addition, the Hanoi Innovation Center is organized as a joint stock company, operating flexibly according to market mechanisms but with the direction of the State. The center will develop according to a five-layer ecosystem model, covering the entire life cycle of a science and technology idea, from research, incubation, growth, market expansion to capital connection and commercialization.

The preliminary conference summarizing one year and six months of implementing Resolution 57 took place directly in Hanoi and online at 3,662 meeting points at ministries, departments, branches, central organizations and headquarters of provinces, cities, communes, wards and special zones nationwide with 568,384 delegates attending.

General Secretary and President To Lam assessed that Resolution 57 has created positive changes in the awareness and actions of the entire political system. Institutions, mechanisms, and policies are gradually improved, many bottlenecks are removed, and many new mechanisms are formed. National digital transformation has achieved many positive results. Digital infrastructure continues to be invested. According to him, technological competition in the world is happening very quickly, so the implementation of Resolution 57 must be more determined, stronger, but most importantly, "more substantive and more effective".

Luu Quy