“Make in Vietnam” is an initiative/slogan launched by the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) in 2019, aiming to promote the development of the domestic ICT industry.

Nguyen Lan Anh, a primary school teacher, used a social media chat app to send and receive homework when online classes became the norm.

The teacher with the Lang Thuong Primary School in Hanoi’s Dong Da district said it took a lot of time because she had to download, grade the work and send it back to her students.

Of late, however, her burden has been considerably eased by home-developed platforms like Azota, designed specifically for generating questions and exercises.

“This application is very convenient and effective for teachers, especially for online learning. For online exams, the system will display the student’s name, status and submission time,” Anh told Vietnam News Agency.

In addition to serving as a database for teachers and students, the platform also helps promote cohesion between teachers and students’ parents, she said, explaining that it helped parents monitor the progress of their children.

Nguyen Hai Au, a representative of the Azota Education Technology Joint Stock Company, said the idea of developing the platform came from a desire to simplify the work for teachers and shorten the time taken for administering and grading a test from several hours to a few minutes. The platform makes it easy for both teachers and students to perform their tasks, he said.

Teachers can easily upload the list of students and exam questions to the system. The test is sent to each student and the teacher can keep track of who has submitted their answers. The company says the platform has six million monthly users.

The platform has been honoured as an outstanding “Make in Vietnam” product for 2021.

“Make in Vietnam” is an initiative/slogan launched by the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) in 2019, aiming to promote development of the domestic ICT industry. It calls on businesses to design, create and manufacture products in Vietnam instead of outsourcing them to help solve the nation’s problems and boost its global presence.

Nguyen Manh Hung, Minister of Information and Communications (MIC), highlighted Make-in-Vietnam as a key strategy in the country’s development.

Addressing the third Forum for Digital Technology Enterprise Development on December 11, he said: “Without Make in Vietnam, our country cannot become a developed nation; cannot establish our presence in the world; cannot strengthen ourselves; and cannot become mighty and prosperous.”

Pandemic impetus

Ha Trung Kien, deputy director general of G-Group, said the pandemic has accelerated the digital transformation process among Vietnam’s enterprises. 

He cited a 2020 report of the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry that said about 75 percent of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the country are willing to apply digital technology in their operations and management. The gap in technology application rate between SMEs and large enterprises has decreased from over 20 percent to only 5 percent. This is significantly different from what it was before the pandemic.

Kien said the pandemic has prompted enterprises to seek ways to optimise costs and this will result in a shift from foreign to indigenously developed platforms. With many businesses seriously affected by COVID-19 in 2021, digital transformation is not a question of advancement but one of survival, he said.

Kien, who founded the Gapo social network with more than 6 million users, said that home-grown platforms have several advantages over foreign ones because the creators have a better understanding of Vietnamese culture and business needs. Moreover, Vietnamese support teams are always ready to assist enterprises and their costs are lower than that of foreign platforms.

According to him, the idea of the home-grown platform was prompted by the need of his own company. 

“At the beginning, each company in our G-Group used different communication platforms. The lack of uniformity made management difficult,” he recalled.

The company then decided to adopt Workplace- a foreign technology platform for internal communication. However, it was too costly as they had to pay 8 USD per person per month, Kien said.

After three years, they ended up developing GapoWork, a set of tools that have helped employees connect with each other easily at a reasonable cost.

Pleasant surprise

Mai Xuan Dat, the CEO of John Capital Company, which specialises in Objectives and key results (OKRs) training and startup investment, said online communication became essential to his company during pandemic times.

His company also had to stop using Workplace to optimise costs. For a long time, they couldn’t find any platform as good as Facebook Workplace. It took him a while before signing up for GapoWork.

“Actually, I opposed it at the beginning, thinking it would be difficult for a Vietnamese company to make a digital product of the same quality as that of US giants. But to my surprise, everything was smooth and in just ten minutes, I felt good about using it.

“The excitement returned to the company in just one day of using GapoWork,” he said.

GapoWork was recognised as an outstanding solution at the Vietnam Digital Awards 2021. 

These two products are evidence that tech products made in Vietnam can solve the nation’s problems and realise the ministry’s ambitious targets.

It is expected that the information, electronics and telecommunications industry will master or develop technologies to produce cover more than 45 percent of relevant content by 2025.

The country is expected to have 100,000 digital technology enterprises by then, with at least 10 internationally competitive unicorns playing a major role.

Progress in difficult times

Despite all the pandemic difficulties, the number of indigenous businesses in the industry increased remarkably in 2021, said Nguyen Thanh Tuyen, Deputy Director of the Information Technology Department under the MIC.

Vietnam is home to 64,000 digital technology firms, an increase of 5,600 over 2020; and these have created 1,000 indigenous ICT products and services. 

In 2021, Vietnam ranked 44th out of 132 countries and economies in the Global Innovation Index (GII) and 59th out of 100 countries in startup ecosystem. The country also came third in the list of the most active startup ecosystem in Southeast Asia after Indonesia and Singapore. In 2020, the ministry announced more than 30 platforms were developed in the country, with many projects related to information security.

Under the ministry’s leadership, Vietnamese businesses have researched new technologies including 5G, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Big Data, Tuyen said, adding that the development is unprecedented.

The total revenue of the ICT industry was 3.46 quadrillion VND (152.2 billion USD) in 2021, a year-on-year growth of 9 percent.

The products of digital firms have been used and proved effective, Tuyen said, citing the digital transformation of public services and document management systems in several localities as examples. The smart city management centres in 38 localities have been built by Vietnamese digital tech enterprises, he noted.

Despite the impressive achievements, the ICT industry still faces numerous challenges.

Up to 90 percent of digital technology firms in Vietnam are small and medium enterprises (SMEs), so their R&D budgets remain modest.

According to the report entitled “Technological change in Vietnam: the contribution of technology to economic growth” which was developed by CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, and the Ministry of Science and Technology, Vietnam’s R&D investment level is still quite low compared to the regional and world average. In 2019, the budget for R&D in Vietnam was just 0.53 percent of the country’s GDP.

The R&D resource limitations are reflected in the number of researchers engaged in R&D per million in Vietnam, which is reported at 896 in 2018, just 7.6 percent of the Republic of Korea, 29.8 percent of Malaysia and 58 percent of Thailand.

The lack of skilled workforce can also hamper its development, industry insiders have cautioned.

Incentive policies 

Le Dang Dung, acting Chairman and General Director of the Military Industry and Telecoms Group (Viettel), said telecommunication infrastructure plays an important role in the country’s digital transformation process.

However, it will be difficult to master technology and ensure information safety if Vietnam continues to buy products from abroad, he stressed.

Therefore, Viettel was determined to implement the “Make-in-Vietnam” strategy in both researching and manufacturing telecommunication and digital infrastructure equipment, he told the Dau Tu (Investment) newspaper.

The acting Chairman of Viettel also suggested that special policies are issued to promote indigenous tech products in the domestic market.

“We really want to sell products in the domestic market, but it is not easy for Vietnamese businesses to buy Viettel’s high-tech products (without policy support),” Dung said. Hoang Nam Tien, Chairman of FPT Telecom JSC said that the biggest advantage of the “Make in Vietnam” strategy is that it will meet essential needs of the people, so the Government needs to formulate specific policies and orientations.

Minister Hung said that digital tech enterprises should take responsibility for the development of platforms for national digital transformation, considering it a national mission.

He said: “These platforms will help Vietnam develop into a digital nation and create momentum for sustainable growth, thus enabling it to become a developed nation with high income by 2045”./.

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Vietnam’s determination to ride the global trend of digital transformation is seen in leaders’ pronouncements, general awareness among the population and actions on the ground.

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has said: “It is necessary to promote national digital transformation, develop the digital economy and society to create breakthroughs in improving productivity, efficiency and competitiveness of the economy.”

How pervasive the transformation has to be in society has been emphasised by Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh.

Since it will have a profound effect on socio-economic activities, cooperation between State and private sectors is needed, he said, adding that the three key pillars of digital transformation are digital government, digital economy and digital society.

The leadership of the country has pushed the development of the digital economy with several policies and resolutions.

Vietnam promulgated the Law on High Technology in 2009. Five years later, the Politburo issued Resolution No 36 on “promoting the application of information technology to meet the requirements of sustainable development and international integration”.

Vietnam is one of the first countries in the world to launch a National Digital Transformation programme with far reaching goals like having 80 percent of level-4 online public services – allowing users to make online fee payment- provided via different means including smart phones; and 90 percent dossiers at the ministerial and provincial levels and 80 percent of those at the district level handled online by 2025.

The country hopes to be among the top 50 countries in the United Nations’ E-Government Development Index and in the top 30 in innovation and cybersecurity. It targets the digital economy to account for 20 percent of Vietnam’s GDP by 2025.

The potential

With a population of nearly 100 million people and the second fastest growing economy in the region, a dynamic young population and quick access to high technology, experts estimate that Vietnam has the potential to reap great benefits from digital transformation.

The country has signed 17 free trade agreements with more than 60 countries, including big markets like the United States, the European Union, Japan, China, the Republic of Korea and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

According to a report on Vietnam’s digital potential conducted by strategic economics consultancy company AlphaBeta, digital technology, if exploited to the maximum, could deliver economic value of up to 74 billion USD for Vietnam by 2030, equivalent to 27 percent of the country’s GDP in 2020.

The report identifies eight key technologies for the digital economy in Vietnam: mobile Internet, cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence (AI), financial technology (Fintech), Internet of Things (IoT) and remote sensing, advanced robotics and additive manufacturing.

Vietnam has many advantages to develop the digital economy, in particular having 70 percent of its citizens under 35, educated and tech-savvy, not to mention a literacy rate of over 98 percent among the people aged from 15 to 35. About 70 percent of the population uses smartphones.

The education sector has also promoted the application of information technology in teaching, learning and management, achieving many important results in recent years.

The PISA 2020 report published by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) showed that Vietnam’s online learning in line with the COVID-19 prevention and control regulations has many positive points compared to other countries and territories. Specifically, Vietnam has 79.7 percent of high school students studying online. This rate is higher than the overall average of OECD (67.5 percent).

The COVID-19 pandemic has slowed down Vietnam’s economic growth, but also created a special opportunity to promote economic growth through technological applications, innovation and digitisation.

Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung said about 5,600 digital technology enterprises were set up this year, raising the total to 64,000. Their total revenue is estimated to reach135 billion USD in 2021, a year-on-year increase of 10 per cent.

“Digital enterprises are the core of promoting Vietnam’s digital transformation to convert all Vietnamese enterprises into digital enterprises, all Vietnamese organisations into digital organisations, and all citizens into digital citizens,” he said.

Wide reach

Indicating the reach of the digital transformation process, Vo Quang Lam, Vice President of Vietnam Electricity (EVN), said that national power utility was supplying electricity to 29.5 million customers, of which 50 percent have had electronic meters installed for remote data reading. Since 2012, EVN has used e-invoices and it has provided electricity services equivalent to level 4 public services.

EVN has delivered 12 electricity services on National Public Service Portal after it came into operation in 2019. By the end of November 2021, 55 percent of transactions by individuals and businesses on the portal were for electricity related services. EVN plans to apply AI and Blockchain technology in their production and business, he said.

According to the e-Conomy Southest Asia report by Google, Temasek and new partner Bain & Company, Vietnam led leading the region in terms of digital growth with an average rate of 27 percent in 2015-2020 period. The country’s digital economy has increased from 3 billion USD in 2015 to 12 billion and 14 billion USD in 2019 and 2020, respectively.

Nguyen Thi Hong, Governor of the State Bank of Vietnam, said payment via mobile devices in Vietnam has grown 90 percent in the number of transactions and 150 percent in value every year.

A survey by consultancy McKinsey revealed that the share of Vietnamese customers using digital banking tools at least once a month doubled from 41 percent in 2017 to 82 percent in 2021, making the country one of Asia-Pacific’s fastest growing markets for digital banking.

The national database on population and citizen ID card becoming operational was a significant step in the renovation of e-governance to meet the demand of regional and international integration, said Prime Minister Chinh, adding that it contributes to accelerating national digital transformation.

The national database on population is the most important among the six national databases to help form an e-Government, a digital society and digital economy.

Challenges ahead

In addition to the positive results achieved in all three pillars of the transformation process – digital government, digital economy and digital society, there are still shortcomings that need to be solved, experts say, noting that Vietnam’s e-Governance ranking is still low.

Despite moving up two places to 86th in the 2020 global e-government growth index, Vietnam stands sixth in Southeast Asia, behind Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Brunei and the Philippines.

Vietnamese enterprises in general, especially small and medium enterprises (SMEs) that account for 98.1 percent of the total number of Vietnamese companies, and contributing up to 45 percent of the country’s GDP – are still not aware of the role of digital transformation in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

While digital transformation is considered a key solution to help SMEs survive, a survey by the Vietnam Software and its service Association (VINASA) found 69 percent of surveyed businesses did not know which partners to choose to implement their digital transformation process, 72 percent did not know where to start and 92 percent did not know what digital transformation entailed.

Studies have found that investment cost is a top digitisation barrier for Vietnamese SMEs.

There is a difference between the realisation of digital transformation between large-scale enterprises and SMEs. It’s obvious that big enterprises have the advantage in terms of capital and production scale, so the application of technology will have immediate impacts and even the high cost is acceptable.

Meanwhile, SMEs have to carefully consider the short, medium and long-term benefits of the process while not having access to the needed capital to implement it.

A 2021 report on business transformation prepared by the Department of Business Development under the Ministry of Planning and Investment in collaboration with the USAID LinkSME Project revealed that up to sixty percent of the 1,300 businesses that participated in a survey said the cost of digital technology was a headache, especially because of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has reduced their revenue and access to capital.

Changing business habits and mindsets is another stumbling block. Some businesses said that after applying a software, employees have displayed reluctance to use it or even refused it. This attitude makes it difficult for enterprises to achieve digital transformation goals.

Potential solutions

Information and Communications Minister Hung said that digital transformation was more like an institutional revolution rather than a technological evolution, so the Government should lead the way, fostering the building of digital institutions.

“Only by adopting innovation and creation can Vietnam escape the middle-income trap,” he said.

Regarding mindset challenges in digital transformation, Nguyen Duc Hai, director of LitCommerce, said it was imperative to determine input and output and then model all aspects of a business accordingly.

To help businesses succeed in digital transformation, a set of guiding documents should be compiled, suggested Nguyen Duc Thuan, vice president of Vietnam Association of Corporate Directors.

Speaking at the forum “New approach to enterprise digital transformation – Get it right to win” organised by the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) recently, he said the most important solution was that enterprises are supported when they opt to use technological tools associated with digital transformation.

Thuan also underscored the need to set up a coordination system and groups of experts to assist companies in the process.

At the third edition of a national forum on the development of Vietnamese digital enterprises in Hanoi on December 11, Prime Minister Chinh said digital transformation was a global trend that would serve all people, and therefore, it requires a global and people-oriented approach.

He identified six key implementation aspects of the process: raising awareness; perfecting institutions; developing digital technology enterprises; developing digital human resources; and developing infrastructure. The PM emphasised that the role of State management must be strengthened to create favourable conditions for the development of digital technology enterprises./.

Mai Hien

Editor

К 2025 году город Шокчанг завершит высокий уровень критериев города 2-го класса, подготовит материальные возможности и создаст ключевую базу данных, стремясь к умному городу.

Согласно планированию дельты Меконга на период 2021-2030 гг., с видением до 2050 г., недавно утвержденному, город Шокчанг (провинция Шокчанг) определен как экономический центр прибрежного субрегиона Восточного моря, центр аквакультуры, рыболовства и экспорта водных продуктов, морепродуктов, центр переработки агро-морепродуктов, индустрия экологически чистой энергии и центр историко-культурного туризма.

Наряду с развитием всей провинции город Шокчанг добился быстрых, всесторонних и устойчивых успехов, достигнув критериев города 2-го класса и в то же время ориентируя многие цели по направлению к более сильным прорывам в ближайшее время.

В период 2018-2020 годы средний темп экономического роста города достиг 15,81%, структура экономики города смещается в сторону увеличения доли промышленности, строительства и услуг, а доля сельского хозяйства по поставленным целям снижается. Доля несельскохозяйственных рабочих в целом по городу достигла 89,8%. Средний доход жителей города составляет 88,9 млн. донгов на человека в год, что в 1,4 раза превышает средний доход по стране.

Город Шокчанг всегда создает благоприятные условия и привлекает инвесторов для реализации проектов, создавая просторный и современный городской облик. Кроме того, город всегда уделяет внимание работе по планированию и реализации. В настоящее время развитие города было одобрено Народным комитетом провинции в рамках реализации общего планирования строительства города Шокчанг до 2035 года с видением до 2050 года, Положения об управлении планированием, архитектурой, городским ландшафтом и программой городского развития города Шокчанг до 2030 года… для внесения своего вклада в решение задач социально-экономического развития.

В 2021 году в условиях многих трудностей, вызванных воздействием эпидемии COVID-19, экономика города сохранила хорошие темпы роста, доход на душу населения превысил целевой показатель Резолюции и увеличился на 3% за тот же период. Сектор обслуживания и торговли получает все возрастающую долю в структуре экономики и составляет более 54% от общего объема розничной торговли и услуг провинции. На обрабатывающую промышленность приходится более 70% промышленной стоимости и более 53% стоимости промышленного производства провинции.

В настоящее время Шокчанг является городом провинции, узловым пунктом городской системы провинции; имеет важное стратегическое положение с точки зрения безопасности и обороны, является воротами в провинцию Шокчанг и полюсом развития дельты Меконга. При этом город играет роль транспортного узла провинции, удобно соединяясь с большинством городов региона.

Theo Thứ trưởng Bộ Xây dựng Lê Quang Hùng, thành phố Sóc Trăng đã đạt tiêu chí đô thị loại 2, trực thuộc tỉnh. Trong thời gian tới, thành phố chú trọng thực hiện các giải pháp ứng phó hiệu quả với biến đổi khí hậu, nước biển dâng và hiện tượng xâm nhập mặn trên địa bàn, nghiên cứu các giải pháp tăng cường sử dụng nước mặt, hạn chế và tiến tới dừng khai thác, sử dụng nước ngầm.

Hướng tới đô thị thông minh

По словам заместителя министра строительства Ле Куанг Хунга, город Шокчанг соответствует критериям города 2-го класса в провинции. В ближайшее время город сосредоточится на внедрении эффективных решений в отношении изменения климата, повышения уровня моря и вторжения соленой воды в этом районе, изучения решений по увеличению использования поверхностных вод, ограничению и прекращению эксплуатации и использования подземных вод.

Определяя стратегическую важность в отношении развития города Шокчанг, провинциальный партийный комитет Шокчанга на период 2020-2025 годов издал тематическую резолюцию о строительстве города Шокчанг в направлении устойчивого развития, достигающего критериев города 2-го класса, в направлении умного города в период 2021-2025 гг. и с видением до 2030 г.

По словам секретаря провинциального партийного комитета Шокчанга Лама Ван Мана, цель провинции состоит в том, что построить и развить город Шокчанг для достижения критериев города 2-го класса, создав основные основополагающие факторы для развития умного города, экоэкономического города и города с хорошими условиями жизни, высокой конкурентоспособностью, собственной идентичностью и устойчивым развитием, создающие движущую силу общего развития провинции.

В городе Шокчанг был создан Центр по применению науки и технологий в управлении городом, синхронно подключающим систему камер для управления и решения проблем городского порядка и санитарии, окружающей среды, общественного порядка и безопасности… к центру многозадачной обработки информации и управления Шокчанга.

К 2025 году город Шокчанг достигнет высокий уровень критериев города 2-го класса, подготовит материальные возможности и создаст ключевую базу данных, стремясь к умному городу.

Город Шокчанг стремится к 2030 году завершить необходимые факторы, обслуживающие строительство умного города Шокчанг, отвечающего ряду ключевых критериев города 1-го класса, чтобы повысить свою роль и конкурентоспособность города по сравнению с другими городами в дельте Меконга./.

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Soc Trang city in the Mekong Delta province of the same name is striving to meet the criteria set to become a second-tier city by 2025, while preparing material facilities and building main databases for a smart urban area.

Under a plan for the Mekong Delta from 2021-2030 with a vision to 2050, Soc Trang has been identified as an economic centre of the sub-region along the East Sea, focusing on aquaculture, fishery exports, farm produce and seafood processing, clean energy, and culture and tourism.

After taking rapid, comprehensive and firm strides to meet second-tier city criteria, the city is now striving to create breakthroughs in the time ahead.

During the 2018-2020 period, Soc Trang posted economic growth of 15.81 percent and its structure shifted towards a higher ratio of industry, construction and services, and a reduced reliance on agriculture.

The number of non-agricultural labourers reached 89.9 percent. The average annual income of the city residents was 88.9 million VND (3,870 USD) per person, 1.4 times that of the national average.

Soc Trang has focused on creating favourable conditions for investors, providing a facelift for the city.

The provincial People’s Committee has approved a master plan for Soc Trang city for 2035 with a vision to 2050, which has been put into place, along with urban planning management regulations and the urban development programme in Soc Trang by 2030.

Despite difficulties caused by the COVID-19 pandemic last year, the local economy has maintained its growth and per capita income rose 3 percent from the previous year.

Trade and services accounted for more than 54 percent of the province’s total retail sales. The processing industry also made up over 53 percent of the province’s combined industrial production value.

Soc Trang city holds a strategic position in terms of national defence and security and serves as a gateway to the Mekong Delta..

According to Deputy Minister of Construction Le Quang Hung, Soc Trang should pay more heed to solutions to cope with climate change, rising seal levels and saltwater intrusion, and to increase the use of surface water and cut or even stop the use of underground water.

Towards smart urban area

The provincial Party Committee (2020-2025 tenure) has issued a resolution on building Soc Trang city sustainably, meeting the criteria set for a second-tier city, towards a smart urban status for 2021-2025, with a vision to 2030.

Secretary of the Party Committee Lam Van Mau said the province plans to turn Soc Trang city into an economic-ecological one that offers good living conditions, high competitiveness and sustainable development, creating momentum for the province’s development.

The city is now home to a centre of scientific-technological application in urban management. The camera system in the locality has helped to manage and handle issues regarding urban order, environmental hygiene, and social order and safety.

It is projected that by 2030, Soc Trang will complete all the necessary conditions to become a smart urban area and a first-tier city, and improve its position and role in the Mekong Delta./.

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La ville de Soc Trang cherche à répondre d’ici 2025 aux critères d’une zone urbaine de garde II et prépare des infrastructures et bases de données pour devenir une ville intelligente.

Selon la Planification du delta du Mékong pour la période 2021-2030 et vision d’ici 2050 récemment approuvée, la ville de Soc Trang, dans la province méridionale du même nom, a vocation à devenir un pôle économique de la sous-région côtière de l’Est et une zone spécialisée dans l’aquaculture, la pêche, les exportations de produits aquatiques, la transformation des produits agricoles et aquatiques, les énergies renouvelables. Elle jouera également le rôle de pôle culturel et touristique de la région.

Entre 2018 et 2020, la croissance économique moyenne de la ville a été estimée à 15,81%. Le revenu annuel moyen par habitant s’élevait à 88,9 millions de dongs, soit 1,4 fois plus que la moyenne nationale. La proportion de travailleurs dans les secteurs non agricoles a atteint 89,8 %. Soc Trang a toujours créé​des conditions favorables pour attirer des investissements dans ses projets urbains.

Actuellement, cette localité déploie le Plan directeur sur la construction de la ville de Soc Trang jusqu’en 2035 avec  vision pour 2050.

Les règlements sur la gestion de la planification, de l’architecture, du paysage urbain et du programme de développement urbain de la ville de Soc Trang jusqu’en 2030 ont été approuvés par le Comité populaire provincial et sont en cours de mise en œuvre.

En 2021, malgré l’impact du COVID-19, l’économie municipale a maintenu une croissance assez élevée et le revenu moyen par habitant a connu une hausse de 3% en rythme annuel. Les secteurs du commerce et des services ont occupé un rôle de plus en plus important dans la structure économique municipale, représentant plus de 54% du total des ventes au détail de biens et de services de la province. L’industrie manufacturière  a représenté plus de 70 % de la valeur industrielle et plus de 53 % de la valeur de  production industrielle de la province.

Dans un proche avenir, la ville  se concentrera sur la mise en œuvre de mesures pour répondre au changement climatique, à l’élévation du niveau de la mer et à l’intrusion saline et cherchera à promouvoir l’utilisation des eaux de surface et à limiter l’exploitation et l’utilisation des eaux souterraines, a demandé le vice-ministre de la Construction Le Quang Hung.

Le comité provincial du Parti pour le mandat 2020-2025 a publié une Résolution  sur le développement durable de la ville, répondant aux critères d’une zone urbaine de garde II et s’orientant vers une ville intelligente pour la période 2021-2025 et à l’horizon  2030.

L’objectif de la province est de faire de Soc Trang une zone urbaine de garde II et à plus long terme une ville intelligente, une ville éco-économique, une zone urbaine dotée d’une haute qualité de vie, d’une forte compétitivité, d’une identité culturelle unique, a déclaré le secrétaire du comité provincial du Parti, Lan Van Man.

Un centre d’application des sciences et technologies pour la gestion urbaine a été créé, permettant la connexion synchrone de systèmes de caméras pour gérer et traiter les problèmes en matière de maintien de l’ordre et de protection de l’environnement. Ce centre sera également connecté au Centre provincial de gestion de l’information et de contrôle multi-tâches./.

La ciudad sureña vietnamita de Soc Trang trabajará por cumplir los criterios de una zona urbana de nivel 2 en 2025, con vistas a preparar las condiciones materiales y construir una base de datos, apuntando a convertirse en una urbe inteligente.

Según la planificación general del Delta del río Mekong en la etapa 2021-2030, con visión hacia 2050, la ciudad de Soc Trang en la provincia homónima se identifica como el centro económico de la subregión costera en el Mar del Este y zona clave de la acuicultura, pesca y exportación de productos acuáticos, de procesamiento agro-mariscos, de industria de energía limpia y de turismo, cultura e historia.

En los últimos tiempos, la metrópolis ha logrado avances rápidos, integrales y sólidos en aras de lograr los estándares de una zona urbana de nivel 2 y orientar otras metas de desarrollo, con el fin de avanzar más en el futuro.

En el período 2018-2020, la tasa de crecimiento económico promedio de la urbe alcanzó el 15,81 por ciento. La estructura económica municipal ha cambiado hacia el aumento de la proporción de industria, construcción y servicios, y reducción de la proporción de agricultura según el plan previsto.

La tasa de trabajadores no agrícolas en toda el área urbana llegó al 89,8 por ciento y el ingreso promedio de la población municipal fue de casi 3,9 mil dólares por persona al año, 1,4 veces más que el ingreso promedio nacional.

La urbe sureña vietnamita siempre ha creado condiciones favorables para atraer a los inversores a desarrollar sus actividades de negocios, como contribución a mostrar un rostro urbano moderno.

Además, las tareas de planificación y ejecución de los proyectos relativos siempre han captado la atención especial de las autoridades municipales.

En la actualidad, la ciudad ha desplegado la planificación general sobre la construcción urbana hasta 2035, con visión hacia 2050, aprobada por el Comité Popular Provincial, y un programa sobre el desarrollo municipal hasta 2030, como aportes a la materialización de los objetivos planteados sobre su progreso socioeconómico.

En 2021, a pesar de diversas dificultades generadas por la pandemia de la COVID-19, la economía de la ciudad mantuvo un buen ritmo de crecimiento, por lo que la renta per cápita superó la meta de la Resolución promulgada por el Comité del Partido Comunista de Vietnam en la provincia y aumentó un tres por ciento en comparación con el año anterior.

La industria de comercio y servicios representa una proporción cada vez mayor en la estructura económica y ocupa más del 54 por ciento del total del comercio minorista –servicios de la provincia.

La industria de procesamiento municipal muestra más del 70 por ciento del valor industrial y refleja más del 53 por ciento del valor de producción industrial de la provincia de Soc Trang.

Actualmente, la ciudad de Soc Trang figura el punto clave del sistema urbano de la provincia homónima y cuenta con una posición estratégica importante en términos de seguridad y defensa, además deviene un polo de desarrollo en el Delta del río Mekong.

Al mismo tiempo, juega el papel de nudo de transporte de la provincia, conectando convenientemente con la mayoría de las áreas urbanas en la región.

Según el viceministro de Construcción de Vietnam, Le Quang Hung, la ciudad de Soc Trang ha alcanzado los criterios de área urbana de grado 2. En los próximos tiempos, se enfocará en implementar soluciones efectivas al cambio climático, el aumento del nivel del mar y la intrusión salina en la zona, y estudiará medidas para incrementar el uso de aguas superficiales, con vistas a limitar y detener la explotación de aguas subterráneas.

Encaminar hacia una ciudad inteligente

Al determinar la importancia estratégica para el desarrollo de la ciudad de Soc Trang, el Comité partidista provincial en el período 2020-2025 emitió una resolución temática sobre la construcción y desarrollo sostenible de la metrópolis, con miras a lograr los criterios de una zona urbana de nivel 2 y encaminarse hacia una ciudad inteligente en la etapa 2021-2025, con visión hacia 2030.

Según el secretario del Comité partidista provincial, Lam Van Man, el objetivo de la provincia es construir y desarrollar la ciudad de Soc Trang a una zona urbana de nivel 2 y poco a poco convertirla en una metrópolis inteligente con alta competitividad y desarrollo sostenible.

En la ciudad de Soc Trang, se ha establecido un Centro de aplicación de la ciencia y la tecnología en la gestión urbana, conectando sincrónicamente con el sistema de cámaras para controlar y manejar problemas relativos al orden urbano, saneamiento, medio ambiente, seguridad social y reflexión de la escena (IOC).

La ciudad sureña de Soc Trang trabajará por cumplir los criterios de una zona urbana de nivel 2 en 2025, con vistas a preparar las condiciones materiales y construir una base de datos, apuntando hacia una urbe inteligente.

La urbe se esforzará hasta 2030 por completar los elementos necesarios para la construcción de una zona urbana inteligente y cumplir una serie de criterios claves de un área urbana de grado 1, elevando su papel y posición de competitividad en el delta del río Mekong./.