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Ho Chi Minh City Research and Development Institute: Connecting knowledge resources to create a research ecosystem of the region

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On the afternoon of April 19, Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Chairman Nguyen Thanh Phong presided over a meeting to approve the implementation of tasks in 2021 of the Institute for Development Studies (HIDS).

Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Chairman Nguyen Thanh Phong speaking at the meeting. Photo: CAO THANG Speaking at the meeting, Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Chairman Nguyen Thanh Phong emphasized, HIDS must act as the center, conductor in research programs, as a place to attract and connect knowledge resources. creating a research ecosystem in HCMC as well as the economic region of HCMC. The mission of the institute is to research topics that serve immediate political tasks on socio-economic development of Ho Chi Minh City; studying strategic topics of Ho Chi Minh City. In the first task, improving the investment environment and building urban government, it is necessary to ask what we have been doing. “Recently, reading comments on a number of newspapers, they said why Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi are still struggling at the Provincial Competitiveness Index (PCI). Why does Quang Ninh hold the champion position for 4 consecutive years. For the efficiency index of governance and public administration (PAPI), HCMC also dropped, from 31/63 (2019) to 46/63 (2020). After only one year, Ho Chi Minh City decreased 15 places, in the group of 15 provinces with low average PAPI. Meanwhile, report to me, every unit is excellent. Excellent, why drop in rank? It is necessary to have an assessment of the performance of the tasks at the units more accurately, otherwise it will lead to subjectivity ”, comrade Nguyen Thanh Phong pondered. In addition to the 3 Ho Chi Minh City’s breakthrough programs on management innovation, human resources and infrastructure, the President of the People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City asked HIDS and departments to focus on implementing key programs for business development, creative start-ups. and key product development. Ho Chi Minh City will realize its goal of becoming the financial center of the region. In the near future, the City Development Advisory Council will be formed, including experts in the fields of economy, culture, planning, urban … Regarding the mission of HIDS in 2021, comrade Nguyen Thanh Phong requested: “It is necessary to clearly define the basic contents, what are the central objectives of the professional activities, how many jobs to do, who can assignment of responsibility, how long to complete. The final product is a measure of the value of labor for each individual and department at the end of the year. Not delivering specific products, how to assess the completion of the job. All things need to be concretized ”. In order to enhance its position and role, HIDS urgently develops and completes a project to develop an institute, a scientific research program in the period of 2021-2025 to have a fully functional implementation of its tasks. development to create research dynamics, ready to invite foreign experts to interact in order to raise the level of research methods. “In its structure, the institute has one member. Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee also agrees to invest in infrastructure, so the ball is in the hands of the institute, so it cannot be said that Ho Chi Minh City does not invest, the collective needs to make more effort to build a worthy Ho Chi Minh City Research and Development Institute. and contribute to many valuable topics for Ho Chi Minh City ”, Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Chairman Nguyen Thanh Phong concluded.