Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue has urged the science and technology sector to renovate and restructure to boost scientific and technological research.
Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue at the working session (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) - Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue has urgedthe science and technology sector to renovate and restructure to boostscientific and technological research to take advantage of the fourthindustrial revolution or industry 4.0 and contribute to development.
Restructuring should improve scientific andtechnological capacity and potential, he said at a working session with theMinistry of Science and Technology on the operations of public units.
He asked the ministry to carefully study whendownsizing its staff to avoid a shortage of skilled scientists.
While reducing the number of people on the Statepayroll, the sector should also improve the capacity of remaining staff, hesaid.
Restructuring in the public sector does notsimply mean reducing the number of staff but arranging staff sensibly with theaim of improving efficiency, he said.
Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Tran VanTung admitted that the downsizing task faced difficult.
Few public officials voluntarily resigned whileworkers in some newly-established agencies under the ministry are young andhave professional skills, making it hard to sack them, he said.
Regarding the ministry’s plan to shift basicresearch projects to universities while moving applied scientific researchprojects to establishment units, Hue suggested allowing the establishment ofscientific and technological businesses at universities and research institutesto link research and practice.
At the meeting, Head of the ministry’s PersonnelDepartment Tran Dac Hieu said the distribution of scientific units wasunreasonable as most of them were located in big cities like Hanoi and HCM Citywhile other localities have few such units.
He proposed dissolving inefficient scientificunits to save State funds to have resources to increase salary for scientificstaff and invest in important areas that are strengths of Vietnam.- VNA
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Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue at the working session (Photo: VNA) 
