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Minister of Science and Technology Huynh Thanh Dat speaks at the question-and-answer session on sci-tech matters.

The top legislator made his recommendation while concluding the June 7 question-and-answer session on sci-tech matters of the ongoing 15th National Assembly’s fifth sitting in Hanoi.

In his conclusion, Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue said of 92 deputies registered to question Minister of Science and Technology Huynh Thanh Dat, 32 delivered their queries within the course of the session.

The N.A. Chairman asked the Government, Minister Huynh Thanh Dat, and other ministers involved to take into account comments of the deputies and drastically carry out measures to tackle the sector’s existing shortcomings.

According to the top legislator, the measures include the effective implementation of the strategy for sci-tech and innovation development by 2030 and of the national science and technology programs by 2030.

It is also necessary to review and tackle barriers in terms of the legal system, economic, financial and investment policies, and administrative procedure, making them more suitable to the market mechanism, international practices, and the specificity of creative labor, he noted.

He elaborated that solutions are needed to make universities really become the center of scientific and technological research as well as the training hub for highly qualified human resources in the field.

He also mentioned international cooperation, the establishment of industrial property rights, administrative reform, higher State investment for the industry, and the completion of related legal frameworks, among many other measures.

Source: VNA