Vietnam got through 2020 as one of only a few to fulfil the dual goals of containing the COVID-19 pandemic and developing its economy. 

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has signed a decision on the national programme on high technology development to 2030, which aims to develop and master 20 prioritised technologies in different fields.

Chau Van Minh, Member of the Party Central Committee, Chairman of the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, talks about the expectations of science and technology for the country's development.

Nguyen Quang Dong, Director of the Institute for Policy Studies and Media Development, talks about Vietnam’s efforts to master science and technology production to help it achieve the goal of becoming a high-income country in 2045.

Vietnam must maintain its growth momentum in the next two decades in order to escape the middle-income trap by 2045 - a key objective set by the government's development vision for 2030 - and the only way to do so is to invest

A speech-to-text software application with accuracy of up to 93.6 percent was honoured on November 15 as the winner of the Vietnamese Talent Awards 2019 IT category.

Domestic businesses have invested approximately US$431.7 million abroad during the first nine months of the year, according to the Foreign Investment Agency under the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

The Ministry of Science and Technology is building a pilot venture investment fund in 2014 to support the successful implementation of the "U.S. Silicon Valley scheme" in Vietnam and to put research works into practical applications.