Hanoi (VNA) - State-owned enterprises (SOEs) must push up digitaltransformation to improve their competitiveness and operation efficency,Chairman of the Committee for Management of State Capital at Enterprises (CMSC)Nguyen Hoang Anh said.

He was speaking at a conference on November 18 about building e-Government anddigital transformation at enterprises that SOEs must be pioneers in digitaltransformation, adding that in the era of Industry 4.0, digital transformationwas an inevitable trend that every country in the world was aiming forand Vietnam was no exception.

2020 was the starting year for the national digital transformation followingthe Prime Minister’s Decision No 749/QĐ-TTg about the national digitaltransformation programme to 2025 with a vision to 2030.

Anh stressed that digital transformation was not only a task but also asolution for SOEs to improve their operation efficiency.

“SOEs must be pioneers in digital transfomation to increase theircompetitiveness and operation efficiency, and contribution to the preventionand fight against the COVID-19 pandemic,” he said.

Nineteen SOEs under CMSC’s management were playing a significant role in thenational digital transformation process, given that they were holdingsignificant resources of the country’s economy.

CMSC’s Deputy Chairman NguyenNgoc Canh urged SOEs to speed up the digital transformation process to play aleading role in developing a digital economy.

He said technology enterprises under CMSC’s management must be responsible forimplementing digital transformation for the Government, local authorities andother enterprises.

Determination and drastic measures must be taken to speed up the digitaltransformation, Canh said. “Who comes first will win,” he stressed.
He said SOEs needed to preparein terms of digital infrastructure, developing digital-based solutions andproducts as well as building talents and enhancing capacity.

Besides, focus should also be placed on ensuring network security in digitaltransformation.

Chairman of the Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) Pham Duc Longsaid Vietnam’s digital economy saw significant development in recent years.However, the development remained uneven among different economic sectors anddifferent regions, Long said.

Long said VNPT would continue efforts to become the leading partner of theGovernment in developing e-Government as well as the leading company in Vietnam to master Industry 4.0 to solve pressing issues of the country and providecomprehensive digital-based solutions.

On the same day, CMSC officially launched a document linking axis developed byVNPT which would be connected with the national document linking axis, helpingsave time and costs in handling administrative documents./.