DECISION

ADOPTING THE NATIONAL STRATEGY FOR FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION BY 2030  

THE PRIME MINISTER

Pursuant to the Law on Government Organization dated June 19, 2015; the Law on Amending and Supplementing certain Articles of the Law on Government Organization and the Law on Local Government Organization dated November 22, 2019;

Pursuant to the Resolution No. 52-NQ/TW dated September 27, 2019 of the Politburo on several guidelines and policies for proactive participation in the Fourth Industrial Revolution;

At the request of the Minister of Planning and Investment;

HEREBY DECIDES

Article 1. The National Strategy for Fourth Industrial Revolution by 2030 is annexed hereto. 

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Article 3. Ministers, Heads of Ministry-level agencies, Heads of Governmental bodies, Presidents of People’s Committees of centrally-affiliated cities and provinces, enterprises, other organizations and individuals involved shall be responsible for implementing this Decision./.

PRIME MINISTER




Nguyen Xuan Phuc

NATIONAL STRATEGY FOR FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION BY 2030 

(Annexed to the Prime Minister’s Decision No. 2289/QD-TTg dated December 31, 2020)

I. BACKGROUND AND CURRENT SITUATIONS

Not only the Fourth Industrial Revolution is changing socio-economic activities and opening up opportunities, but it is also posing many challenges for economies. Many countries around the world have been formulating and implementing different policies to actively exploit the benefits of new technologies, promote economic development and improve competitiveness. The fourth industrial revolution has the potential to bring significant benefits to economies, such as cutting costs, improving productivity; minimizing marginal costs of business models, creating network effects; offering opportunities to develop new products and services; and so on.

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In our country, the contribution of science, technology and innovation is still limited compared with many economies at a similar stage of development; and overall, our economy is not really ready to take part in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Our economic growth does not rely much on knowledge, science and technology. Also, our knowledge economy index is lower than the world on average. Institutional quality is also a challenge when we are currently placed 89 out of 141 economies on the World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Index 4.0 2019 ranking. In addition, cybersecurity and information security are our demerit points and are ranked at a very low place (90/100) on the World Economic Forum’s ranking in the Readiness for the Future of Production Report (2018).

On recognizing the benefits of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, our Party and State have been oriented towards formulating policies and a number of programs to actively participate in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, especially placing more emphasis on to apply and promote science and technology, innovation and improve the quality of human resources. For instance, The Politburo’s Resolution No. 23-NQ/TW dated March 22, 2018, regarding the orientation towards formulating the national industrial development policy by 2030 with vision to 2045, stressing that “the achievements of the 4^th Industrial Revolution must fully exploited”; the Politburo’s Resolution No. 52-NQ/TW dated September 27, 2019, regarding a number of guidelines and policies for actively participating in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (hereinafter referred to as Resolution No. 52-NQ/TW), that stating "Active and proactive participation in the Fourth Industrial Revolution is an objectively indispensable requirement; is a mission of particularly important strategic significance, which is both urgent and long-term, of both the political system and the whole society...". Therefore, the Government has issued the Resolution No. 50/NQ-CP dated April 17, 2020 regarding the Government's Action Program for implementing the Politburo’s Resolution No. 52-NQ/TW dated September 27, 2019 on a number of guidelines and policies for actively participating in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (hereinafter referred to as Resolution No. 50/NQ-CP); issued the Decision No. 749/QD-TTg dated June 3, 2020, approving the "National digital transformation program by 2025 with vision to 2030" (hereinafter referred to as Decision No. 749/QD-TTg).

On implementing the assigned tasks referred to in the Resolution No. 52-NQ/TW, the Prime Minister adopts the National Strategy for the Fourth Industrial Revolution by 2030, including specific viewpoints, objectives and tasks as follows:

II. VIEWPOINTS AND OBJECTIVES

1. Viewpoints

- Promptly grasping and making effective use of opportunities of the Fourth Industrial Revolution to improve labor productivity, efficiency and competitiveness of the economy and develop the national defense and security potential through strongly researching, transferring and applying advances of the Fourth Industrial Revolution in all aspects of socio-economic life. At the same time, proactively taking preventive and response actions to limit negative impacts, ensuring national defense, security, safety, social equity and sustainable development.

- Implementing the Fourth Industrial Revolution on the basis of: (i) adopting the reform, improvement of economic institutions, assured cybersecurity and information security as a prerequisite; (ii) considering strongly promoting the process of research, development and application of technologies for enterprises and state management activities, and building a digital Government, as a breakthrough; (iii) deeming education and training of high-quality workforce, researching, and mastering a number of prioritized technologies to actively participate in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, as a core factor.

- Refreshing management thinking by using open approaches, facilitating and promoting innovation. Bringing available resources into full play, ensuring the proactive participation in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

2. Objectives

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a) Overall objectives

Actively taking advantage of opportunities of the Fourth Industrial Revolution in an effective manner; basically mastering and widely applying new technologies in socio-economic sectors; step by step creating new technologies in order to promote the process of renewing the growth model, restructuring the economy in connection with implementing strategic breakthroughs and modernizing out country; strongly developing the digital economy; ensuring the rapid and sustainable development based on science and technology, innovation and high-quality human resources; improving the quality of life, welfare and health of the public; ensuring the strengthened national defense, security and environmental protection; ensuring greater efficiency in international integration and closely linking the process of application of the Fourth Industrial Revolution with cybersecurity affairs.

b) Specific goals

By 2025:

- Continuing to be ranked as one of the top three ASEAN countries on the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)’s Global Innovation Index ranking;

- Striving to be placed in the top 40 countries on the International Telecommunication Union (ITU)’s Global Cybersecurity Index ranking;

- Expecting to be ranked as one of the top four ASEAN countries on the United Nations (UN)’s Digital Government Index ranking;

- Expecting that the digital economy accounts for approximately 20% of GDP; labor productivity is increased to greater than 7%/year on average;

- Optical fiber broadband network infrastructure will cover over 80% of households, 100% of communes; 4G/5G mobile network services and smart phones will be universalized; 80% of the population will use Internet; 80% of level-4 online public services will be provided on a variety of access hubs, including mobile devices; the rate of population holding electronic payment accounts will be over 50%;

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By 2030:

- Continuing to be ranked as one of the top forty countries in the world on the WIPO’s Global Innovation Index (GII) ranking;

- Striving to be placed in the top 30 countries on the ITU’s Global Cybersecurity Index ranking;

- Expecting to be ranked as one of the top 50 countries on the United Nations’ Digital Government Index ranking;

- Expecting that the digital economy accounts for approximately 30% of GDP; labor productivity is increased to greater than 7.5%/year on average;

- Universalizing optical fiber broadband network services; 5G mobile network services;

- Completely building the digital Government;

- Forming a number of smart city chains in key economic regions of the North, the South and the Central Coast; gradually linking these smart cities to the regional and global smart city networks.

III. STRATEGIC ORIENTATION TOWARDS ACTIVE PARTICIPATION IN THE FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

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1. Improving the regulatory quality and policy making capacity

a) Adapting new regulatory frameworks for new technologies, new business models and business contexts; the digital Government and cybersecurity

- Building and completing regulatory frameworks for industries and sectors with new business models (e.g. e-commerce, sharing economy, financial technology, digital banking technology, etc.) in order to ensure they are streamlined, encourage innovation and are adaptable to the level of risks of each industry or business activity. Applying the regulatory sandbox for new business lines to create a legal corridor for innovative products and services.

- Reviewing and completing institutions or regulatory frameworks oriented towards encourage domestic digital technology enterprises to invest in application development and research to master priority technologies so that they can actively participate in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (e.g. tax incentives; flexibly using financial instruments as a leverage for technological research, development and application;...).

- Completing laws on the prevention and control of non-conventional and high-tech crimes.

b) Strongly implementing solutions to improving the business environment to encourage enterprises to engage in innovation tasks.

- Strictly and fully implementing the guidelines of the Government and the Prime Minister on improving the business environment and reducing costs for businesses as suggested in the Resolution No. 19/NQ-CP (for the period of 2014 - 2018) and the Resolution No. 02/NQ-CP (for the period of 2019 - 2020) on improvement of the business environment; the 2016 Resolution No. 35/NQ-CP on support for enterprises; the 2017 Directive No. 20/CT-TTg on reorganization of corporate inspection and examination activities; the 2018 Resolution No. 139/NQ-CP on cutting costs for enterprises.

- Reviewing and amending institutions for innovative start-up investment with a view to facilitating capital contribution, share purchase, merger and acquisition of technology enterprises.

2. Developing connected infrastructures, building and exploiting databases

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- Developing and completing the national databases specified in the Decision No. 714/QD-TTg dated May 22, 2015 and other databases necessary for management and business activities (e.g. databases of drivers and public investment projects, ...).

- Building and upgrading technical systems in order to raise the capacity to ensure cybersecurity.

- Building and upgrading physical infrastructure to meet the requirements for application of priority technologies to actively participate in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, including energy and transport infrastructure as the top priority. Encouraging private sector investment in development and operation of public infrastructure.

3. Human resource development

- Expanding and improving the quality of undergraduate, postgraduate and vocational training programs, especially in disciplines or areas of study needed for the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

- Reforming and improving the quality of the universal education system with a view to increasing practice training, especially education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Designing programs for internship at innovation support centers and start-ups.

- Strengthening the correlation between scientific research, training, production and trading activities.

4. Developing the e-Government into the digital Government

- Strongly applying the digital technology to state management activities in all domains; investing in development of information technology applications facilitating state management activities (GovTech) and provision of public services. Building a real-time socio-economic information system meeting the Government's direction and administration needs.

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5. Developing and enhancing national innovation capacity

- Developing the national innovation system in the expectation that it becomes the enterprise-centered system in which higher education institutions and research institutes are treated as research entities.

- Developing and proposing special and breakthrough mechanisms and policies for the construction and operation of innovation centers. Encouraging higher education institutions, domestic and foreign enterprises and organizations to set up innovation centers in Vietnam.

6. Investing, researching and developing a number of priority technologies to actively participate in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, such as robotics, advanced materials, renewable energy, artificial intelligence, health technology, internet of things, big data, blockchain, etc.

7. Expanding international cooperation and integration in science and technology, especially in sectors of priority technologies, to actively participate in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

IV. DUTIES AND SOLUTIONS

1. The Ministry of Planning and Investment

- Monitoring, evaluating and proposing the effective implementation of legislation on enterprises, investment and business in the Law on Support for Small and Medium Enterprises (2017), the Law on Enterprises (2020), the Law on Investment (2020), the Law on Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Investment (2020).

- Researching and proposing policies and solutions to promote activities of the National Innovation Center in order to effectively support and develop start-up and innovation ecosystems. Taking charge of, and cooperating with concerned ministries and agencies in, carrying out experience evaluation and review, and petitioning the Government for solutions to investing in and expanding the networks of innovation centers.

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2. Ministry of Science and Technology

- Adjusting the State budget allocations for science and technology under its authority in order to orient them towards concentrating resources on research, development and application of priority technologies to actively participate in the Fourth Industrial Revolution; prioritizing the use of resources for implementing a number of national key research programs regarding the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

- Taking charge of, and cooperating with concerned ministries and sectoral authorities in, studying, formulating and adopting a system of national technical standards and regulations for products and services according to international good practices facilitating the participation of the Fourth Industrial Revolution; cooperating with enterprises to ensure standards and regulations are appropriate for the practical conditions and provide favorable conditions for enterprises to develop new products and services.

- Building a network of consultants on priority technologies to actively participate in the Fourth Industrial Revolution to assist enterprises in upgrading and transforming technologies.

- Reviewing and proposing amendments to intellectual property legislation in the expectation that processes and procedures are simplified, and such legislation is in line with international practices.

3. The Ministry of Information and Communications

- Reviewing and completing legislative documents in the information and communication sector to ensure that digital infrastructure takes a step ahead and gets ready for other industries to implement the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

- Developing safe and modern digital infrastructure to meet the needs of industries arising during the digital transformation process, and succeeding in implementing the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

- Focusing on improving the capacity to ensure cybersecurity, especially information security of telecommunications infrastructure, IoT devices and personal information protection; promoting the deployment of cybersecurity operations centers nationwide.

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- Researching, reviewing, amending, supplementing or proposing amendments to technical standards and regulations, economic and technical norms regarding the application and development of core digital technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

- Propagating, raising awareness, disseminating knowledge, skills and responsibilities for ensuring cybersecurity and network safety for state agencies and organizations and for the whole society.

4. Ministry of Education and Training

- Developing training programs and human resources with attention paid to key disciplines to be involved in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

- Supporting scientific research, technology transfer and innovation for higher education institutions to create priority technology products to actively participate in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

5. Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs

- Periodically conducting evaluation surveys on workers' skills in relation to the requirements of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, suggesting solutions and policies to improve workforce’s skills.

- Adjusting vocational training programs in order for them to be oriented towards strengthening training in information technology skills, skills in using information technology to develop professional competencies and qualifications; opening vocational training programs for priority technologies to actively participate in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

- Providing retraining programs for workers so that they can shift to jobs requiring new skills in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.- Reviewing and adjusting regulations on work permits granted to foreign workers with high qualifications to enter Vietnam to work in priority technology industries in order for them to actively participate in the Fourth Industrial Revolution at innovation centers, hi-tech parks, concentrated information technology zones and software parks of Vietnam in the expectation that facilitations are provided and they are in line with good international practices.

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- Taking charge of and cooperating with the State Bank in developing a pilot regulatory framework for financial technology (Fintech) services so that it accords with global good practices, and provides favorable conditions for businesses to develop new digital financial services.

- Developing legislative regulations to allow securities trading organizations to apply electronic Know Your Client (eKYC) solutions.

- Leading and building a regulatory framework for financial technology (Fintech) services associated with incentive policies for operations and transactions of startups.

- Cooperating with the State Bank to strengthen the supervision of capital sources, capital flows through forms of digital money and digital assets; raising new capital by issuing virtual money and crypto assets, electronic money in financial markets.

7. The State Bank

- Taking charge of, and cooperating with the Ministry of Finance and concerned ministries and sectoral authorities in, implementing the national plan for digital payment infrastructure development in the expectation that such infrastructure is synchronous, consistent and is intended for common uses. Complete mechanisms and policies to promote non-cash payments. Researching and developing a plan to manage and supervise the cross-border online payment method.

- Providing favorable conditions for credit institutions to carry out digital transformation and apply priority technologies to actively participate in the Fourth Industrial Revolution; promoting digital banking models. Building a regulatory framework for controlled tests on financial technology (Fintech) activities in the banking sector.

- Encouraging credit institutions to connect and share data with state regulatory authorities and service providers through the Open Application Programming Interface (Open API) to create new products and services and improve banking service quality.

- Issuing, amending according to its competence or requesting competent authorities to issue or amend legal regulations enabling credit institutions to apply electronic Know Your Client (eKYC) solutions; conducting researches and tests on Big Data, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Robotic Process Automation and Blockchain Technology in banking operations.

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- Studying and proposing the completion of the legal framework on property, contracts, ownership rights and other related matters in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

- Examining solutions to robustly applying technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution to the forecast, analysis of policies, drafting, promulgation, organization and monitoring of law enforcement activities, and ensuring the mechanism for giving feedback and responding to policies is carried out in a timely, accurate manner and keeps up with rapid changes in the socio-economic life.

9. The Ministry of Industry and Trade

- Organize the implementation of related objectives and tasks to carry out the Politburo's Resolution No. 23-NQ/TW dated March 22, 2018 on the guidelines for formulation of national industrial development policies by 2030 with vision to 2045, and to fully exploit the achievements of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

- Completing and seeking the approval of projects and programs on developing high technology human resources for industry 4.0; piloting the advanced practice training model.

- Researching and developing projects to promote Vietnamese businesses to participate in the e-commerce system in the world.

- Building the national master program for e-commerce development during the period of 2021 – 2025.

10. Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development

- Completing incentive policies for researches into the application and development of digital technologies, digital transformation, smart administration in agricultural production activities; commissioning technology businesses to research smart agricultural solutions, solutions for management of agricultural supply chains, post-harvest preservation and processing of agricultural products.

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11. Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment

- Developing and implementing the digital resource master strategy regarding natural resources and environment by 2030.

- Researching, developing and completing the legal framework for the implementation of new models for environmental pollution control, climate change adaptation and sea level rise.

- Designing and completing mechanisms, policies and organizing the implementation thereof to comprehensively collect, create and manage digital resources in terms of natural resources and environment, serving the goal of managing "space for development” of the nation.

12. Ministry of Foreign Affairs

- Cooperating with the Ministry of Science and Technology and relevant ministries and sectoral authorities in studying and providing information about development trends, policies and experience of countries with respect to participation in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

- Cooperating with the Ministry of Science and Technology in perfecting mechanisms and policies to mobilize overseas Vietnamese and international intellectuals and scientists to promote innovation and development of science and technology.

13. Ministry of Construction

- Examining the application of satellite technologies and priority technologies to actively participate in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, building the digital databases needed for the management of construction, urban and architectural planning. Guiding localities to build digital databases to connect technical and social infrastructures for use in urban management activities.

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14. Ministry of Public Security

- Leading the effective implementation of the national cybersecurity strategy.

- Building and operating the national database center. Raising awareness of personal data protection and data management amongst organizations, businesses and people.

- Working closely with international organizations to monitor transnational cybercrime. Forming cybersecurity alliances.

- Researching and proposing mechanisms and policies to form the cybersecurity industry; set up national security operations centers in regions. Taking charge of, and cooperating with ministries and construction authorities in, submitting the Project titled "Building Vietnam's cybersecurity industry" and the Project on building national security operations centers in regions for two phases of 2020 - 2025 and 2025 - 2030 to the Prime Minister.

15. Ministry of Transport

Applying technologies prioritized for active participation in the Fourth Industrial Revolution to the project formulation and construction quality management; management, operation and maintenance of transportation infrastructure systems and traffic operation and organization activities.

16. Ministry of Health

- Taking charge of the development of smart health care and disease prevention systems, including: universal electronic health records, application of artificial intelligence and smart technologies in disease prevention, environment, food safety, nutrition, HIV/AIDS prevention and control, pharmaceutical research and production.

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- Forming the smart healthcare administration system, including: deploying the digital and level-4 online public service administration system, establishing health ecosystems powered by advanced technologies. Directing 100% of healthcare service providers to completely deploy electronic medical records and make interconnection with each other.

- Acting on its initiative in approaching and transferring priority technology achievements to proactively participate in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, especially in the biotechnology industry.

17. Ministry of Home Affairs

Instructing and training public officials, civil servants and public employees with knowledge, qualifications, capabilities and experience to meet the requirements of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

18. Committee for Management of State Capital at Enterprises

- Encouraging and supporting enterprises directly under the Committee’s authority to develop priority technology transformation investment plans to actively participate in the Fourth Industrial Revolution that accord with specific sectors and industries.

- Encouraging and supporting enterprises having technological and financial capacity to develop priority technology transfer, training and consulting services to proactively participate in the Fourth Industrial Revolution for small and medium enterprises; encouraging them to build a link with each other and with private technology enterprises to form specialized and interdisciplinary cooperative networks.

19. Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry, central and local associations

Communicating and disseminating contents of the Strategy to the business community. Supporting businesses to access information about the Fourth Industrial Revolution, enterprise support policies and programs to proactively implement digital transformation and participate in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

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- Thoroughly grasping and disseminating the essence and contents of the Strategy to their units and local businesses.

- Developing enterprise support programs regarding training and consultancy of priority technology transfer to actively participate in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

V. IMPLEMENTATION

1. Coordinating, monitoring and assessing the progress and results of implementation:

a) The Ministry of Planning and Investment acts as the lead entity to monitor and review the progress and the results of the implementation of the Strategy. Annually, sending a general review report to the Prime Minister on the results of implementation of the Strategy by ministries, sectoral authorities and local authorities by December 20.

b) The Ministry of Information and Communications shall take charge of, and cooperate with ministries and sectoral authorities in, researching and proposing the consolidation, supplementation and adjustment of the functions and tasks of the National E-Government Committee to undertake more functions and tasks of advising, monitoring and coordinating the implementation of the relevant contents of the National Strategy for the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

c) The Ministry of Science and Technology shall take charge of, and cooperate with ministries and sectoral authorities in, researching and proposing the consolidation, supplementation and adjustment of the functions and tasks of the National Council for Science and Technology Policy to undertake more functions and tasks of advising, monitoring and coordinating the implementation of the relevant contents of the National Strategy for the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

2. Ministries, Governmental bodies and provincial People’s Committees:

- Prioritizing budget allocations for activities to implement the Strategy, especially investment in science and technology, technology transfer and enterprise development support activities; meeting the spending targets for research and development activities as stated in the Strategy.

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