The Ministry of Information and Communications will hold an online press conference to announce and launch the “Make in Vietnam Digital Product” award 2021 on June 18. This is the second year this award has been held. This event will take place at 6 bridge points, namely at the headquarters of the Ministry of Information and Communications, 5 at the Department of Information and Communications of provinces and cities including: Hanoi, Hai Phong, Da Nang, Ho Chi Minh City and Can Tho. In the second year of being held, according to the Award Regulation signed by the Minister of Information and Communications on June 7, “Make in Vietnam Digital Products” in 2021 continues to have 5 categories, including: Excellent digital platform; Excellent digital products; Excellent digital solutions; Narrowing the digital divide; Potential digital products. The “Make in Vietnam Digital Product” Award in 2021 continues to have 5 categories. Besides, the second “Make in Vietnam Digital Technology Product” award also has changes compared to 2020. Specifically, this year there will be Gold, Silver and Bronze awards for the categories of Excellent Digital Platform; Excellent digital products; Excellent digital solutions; Close the number gap. As for the category “Potential digital products”, this category is only applicable to participating units that are non-business organizations, small and medium-sized enterprises or creative start-ups, and only the Top 10 will be announced. The organization is expected to invite leaders of the Party, State and Government to award prizes to enterprises with high prizes. Products honored at the “Make in Vietnam Digital Products” award in 2021 must satisfy two main groups of criteria, namely: design, creativity in Vietnam and practical value. In the criterion group “Actual value”, the score structure related to revenue, the number of users is 40 (accounting for about 70%). The award also encourages digital technology products of small and medium enterprises and innovative start-ups in the category of “Potential Digital Products”. Regarding the process of reviewing and awarding this year’s awards, the representative of the Organizing Committee said that at the preliminary stage, the subcommittees of the Jury Council will organize grading of documents that meet the criteria through the pre-qualification round. select 12 records with the highest score of each award category. The participating units with records in the group of 12 records with the highest score of each category will present and defend before the respective Committee’s Sub-Committees (in person or online) to the Sub-Committees. The evaluation board selects the Top 10 records in order of scores from high to low of each category. At the final round, based on the list of nominations of the subcommittees, the Jury Council held meetings to evaluate and select the Top 10 and the Gold, Silver, and Bronze awards for the 4 categories of Awards and Top 10. 10 potential digital products. “The Ministry of Information and Communications will create conditions for businesses with winning products through propaganda and promotion activities to develop further with the desire to have more and more good technology products, meeting the development of the economy”, representative of the Information Organizing Committee. In addition, the units participating and winning the “Make in Vietnam Digital Technology Product” award in 2021 will also be considered for inclusion in the List of IT products and services prioritized for investment, rental and procurement in the future. state agencies; List of potential projects calling for investment. At the same time, support to build national brands for products and services of enterprises; exchange, consult and critique on the development mechanisms, policies, strategies and programs of the industry and the development orientation of digital technology products of enterprises.

Automatic brick production line of Dat Viet Tile Joint Stock Company. Over the years, Quang Ninh province has many policies to support and develop science and technology enterprises (Science and Technology). Up to now, the province has the fourth largest number of science and technology enterprises nationwide, with 18 enterprises and 172 products formed from the results of science and technology research. Sharing about the results of promoting the development of science and technology enterprises, Director of the Quang Ninh Department of Science and Technology Hoang Ba Nam said: The Department of Science and Technology has selected 80 potential enterprises in the area to develop into a successful business. science and technology enterprises. The Department has coordinated with relevant units to work directly with businesses to guide and advise businesses to complete the application for certification of science and technology enterprises. In addition, the provincial advisors support potential businesses in advanced technology chains, new technology transfer, training, management, business operation… to develop new products of high value. competition in the market. 18 enterprises achieved science and technology enterprises in the fields of: industrial production, construction; agriculture, forestry and fishery; medical, pharmaceutical and food processing. With the multifaceted support of the province, science and technology enterprises have boldly invested in technological innovation to improve the quality and value of products; actively invest in research to create new varieties and products with high added value. For example, Dat Viet Brick and Tile Joint Stock Company has applied mechanization and automation, ensuring stable production regardless of seasons and weather. At the company’s factory, the entire process is completely autonomous, the processing of extrusion molds is due to investment in automatic lathes and milling machines; loading and unloading brick products by robots, reducing labor intensity for workers. Deputy General Director of Dat Viet Brick and Tile Joint Stock Company Nguyen Duy Tan said that due to investment in modern technology and equipment, product quality has been improved, the company has exported bricks and tiles to 51 countries and territories. territory. Up to now, the company has won the Vietnam Gold Star Award three times (2012, 2015, 2018); 2014 won the Red Star Award; in 2015 was in the top 500 enterprises with the fastest growth rate in Vietnam. In 2015 won the Silver Award and in 2016 won the National Quality Gold Award… Or Dong Bac Medicinal Plant Cultivation, Production and Processing Co., Ltd. has completed and developed a closed production and processing process from from incubation, rearing to production and processing of products on modern production lines. Currently, the company has nine OCOP certified herbal products and is rated four stars. In 2020, the company has invested more than 10 billion VND in building a pharmaceutical factory that meets GMP standards. Quang Vinh Co., Ltd., after implementing a project to apply advanced ceramic production technology, has reduced the amount of gas by 30% by recovering excess heat in the kiln to dry wood products. In the field of agriculture, Quang Ninh Seed Joint Stock Company is evaluated as a unit that performs well in scientific research tasks. General Director of the Company Tran Thi Hong said: Over the past time, the company has researched, selected, created and tested many varieties of rice, including 14 rice varieties recognized by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. Many rice varieties of the company have become the main varieties of Quang Ninh and many other provinces and cities. Particularly in Quang Ninh, the rice varieties researched by the company are applied and planted on 39,000 hectares, accounting for 70% of the province’s rice area, the yield increased from 7 to 9 quintals/ha. Thanks to the policies to encourage enterprises to be creative, improve productivity and product quality of Quang Ninh province, many inventions and useful solutions of science and technology enterprises have been applied to production, bringing about effective results. high economic. The invention of the author Dinh Van Giang (Tri Dat Mechanical Science and Technology Co., Ltd.) has been applied to production and commercialization on the market, the product has been present in 63 provinces and cities in the country. and exported to Laos. The invention of the author Dinh Thai Minh (Dat Minh Ha Joint Stock Company) has been commercialized and transferred to coal companies, worth billions of dong. Dat Minh Ha Joint Stock Company’s invention of producing a tarpaulin system for aquaculture has been applied and built into a project under the Intellectual Property Development Program for the period 2016 – 2020 of the National Office of Intellectual Property. wisdom… Evaluating activities to support science and technology enterprises, Director of Quang Ninh Department of Science and Technology Hoang Ba Nam said: The organization of the scientific and technological apparatus has made many changes in the direction of clear people, clear jobs. . At the departments, branches and localities, leaders are arranged to be in charge, assign staff to monitor science and technology of the unit; Annually, proactively propose and incorporate science and technology tasks into professional work programs and plans of agencies and units. Mechanisms and policies to encourage and support enterprises to invest in research, innovation and application of science and technology have actively contributed to helping enterprises improve productivity and quality of products and services. Many enterprises have actively cooperated with science and technology organizations, scientists, and established their own science and technology development funds to carry out science and technology tasks effectively.

A year ago, the community made waves with the case of patient Le Van Men (An Giang) with a severely deformed face. For 15 years, people called him with the painful name “demon-faced boy”. For the same amount of time, eating and drinking was like torture for him, and he couldn’t sleep like everyone else because he couldn’t breathe when lying down. Just like that, he “existed” but never really lived. Looking to JW Korea Cosmetic Hospital in May 2020 with the hope of getting rid of the evil disease, Mr. Men was diagnosed with Melkersson Rosenthal Syndrome by Dr. BS Nguyen Phan Tu Dung (Director of JW Hospital) MRS). MRS is a rare disease, with an estimated incidence of 0.08% of the world population. Until now, Mr. Men was recorded as the first case of MRS Syndrome in Vietnam. To prove that Mr. Men has MRS syndrome, Dr. Tu Dung spent more than 4 months working hard with a research team including Professors, Associate Professors, Doctor of Internal Medicine/Surgery, PhD Student of Medicine, … rich experience from the United States, Japan, Vietnam. Mr. Men – the first patient with MRS syndrome in Vietnam has had a spectacular change after 1 year of being treated by Dr. Tu Dung. Dozens of tests were performed, of which up to 3 pathological diagnoses were performed at 7 different testing centers, more than 75 samples were analyzed. In addition, these patient samples were also taken to 3 genetic diagnostic centers for gene decoding. The first Vietnamese doctor to make a splash at the World Medicine Awards At the end of October 2020, after many efforts, a Vietnamese medical research project with the topic “ Severe facial deformity and multi-organ dysfunction in a patient with 15-year undiagnosed Melkersson Rosenthal Syndrome. was honored as the runner-up at the US National Conference on Internal Medicine announced by the ACOI (American College of Osteopathic Internists) association. The study that proved Mr. Men with MRS Syndrome won the runner-up prize at the American Internal Medicine Association For the first time in the history of Vietnamese medicine, a research project has surpassed thousands of works worldwide, entered the Top 150 outstanding works, entered the final round. The culmination of Vietnam’s MRS project has surpassed prestigious American hospitals and medical schools such as Harvard, Yale, University of California – Los Angeles, Stanford, Johns Hopkins, Chicago… to continue to enter the Top. 3 and won the prestigious Silver Medal. Silver Medal at the American National Conference on Internal Medicine sponsored and awarded by the ACOI Association Despite the late submission of the thesis, Mr. Men’s “strange” disease was still highly appreciated by the American Medical Association Research Council and selected as an exception to the list because of its convincing breakthrough. The Silver Medal for a research achievement in the United States not only proves Mr. Men’s efforts to decipher the rare disease, but also a solid affirmation of the position of Vietnamese Medicine on the world map. The awards of the Ministry of Health, the Department of Health for Dr. Tu Dung, fuel the journey of “Finding life for Mr. Men” On February 26, 2021, the research work Surgical technique for severe facial deformity with multi-organ dysfunction in a patient with undiagnosed Melkersson Rosenthal syndrome for 15 years. continued to make a spectacular impression when being named the “Vietnam Medical Achievement Award 2020”. JW Hospital is also the only cosmetic hospital that stands side by side with major hospitals in the country such as Children’s Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City, University Hospital of Medicine and Pharmacy in Ho Chi Minh City; Cho Ray Hospital; Hanoi Medical University Hospital… won the Vietnam Medical Achievement Award Doctor Tu Dung received the Vietnam Medical Achievement Award 2020 Success followed, on March 5, 2021, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Truong Son – Deputy Minister of Health, together with senior leaders of the Department of Health, Ho Chi Minh City Emulation and Commendation Board, District 1 People’s Committee,. .. awarded certificates of merit to the team of JW Hospital and Dr. Tu Dung personally for Mr. Men’s successful treatment of the rare disease MRS. The Deputy Minister of Health awarded a prestigious certificate of merit to Doctor Tu Dung and the team of JW Hospital for his outstanding achievements in treating MRS disease. With 3 major surgeries, 12 months of treatment, 29 hours of anesthesia are impressive numbers to remember a challenging journey of JW Hospital team, and Dr. Tu Dung. Men’s face from 26cm has now been reduced to 18cm. Especially, after 15 years, Mr. Men can pronounce words roundly, and lie on his back like many people. Closing half of the way with the miracles in medicine at home and in the world, the rest of the journey promises to be even more commercial. But perhaps there is no more glorious achievement than that now Dr. Tu Dung can see his patients have a gradually prosperous life with new joy in a new look.

The cultural and culinary life of the highland people was recognized by author Nguyen Huu Thong through the work “Breakfast at the fair” taken in Dong Van, Ha Giang which won the first prize in the Food at the Table photo category. real on the table) Nguyen Huu Thong has another work selected for exhibition in the final list, which is “Winter Meal” of a family in the highlands of Hoang Su Phi, Ha Giang. The photo “Enjoy” by author Tran Viet Van won the first prize in the Street Food category, taken in the ancient town of Hoi An, Quang Nam. The work “Fish net” by Nguyen Phuoc Hoai was selected for the exhibition in the Bring home on the Harvest category. The image of throwing a fishing net from above makes viewers think they are enjoying a fancy flower The work “Lieutenant harvest season” by photographer Nguyen Huu Thong took in Bac Giang The work “Feeding ducks” by author Nguyen Phuoc Hoai taken on Tra O lagoon, Phu My, Binh Dinh won the second prize in the Food in the Field category. The scene of salt harvesting taken in Vietnam by Chin Leong Teo (Singapore) was selected for the exhibition in the Food in the Field category. British author Lawrence Worcester photographed passengers buying fruit through a train car window that won third place in the Street Food category.