Attending the seminar were: Nguyen Thanh Hai, Member of the Party Central Committee and Chairwoman of the National Assembly’s Committee on Science, Technology and Environment; Le Quoc Minh, Member of the Party Central Committee, Editor-in-Chief of Nhan Dan Newspaper, Deputy Head of the Central Commission for Communication and Mass Mobilization, and President of the Vietnam Journalists Association; Pham Dai Duong, Member of the Party Central Committee and Deputy Head of the Central Policy and Strategy Commission; Nguyen Huy Dung, full-time member of the Central Steering Committee on science, technology, innovation and digital transformation; and Hoang Minh, Deputy Minister of Science and Technology.

Photo 1: Delegates at the seminar “Resolutions No. 57-NQ/TW and 68-NQ/TW: A foundation for private enterprises to make breakthroughs in science and technology development, innovation, and digital transformation,” co-organized by Nhan Dan Newspaper and the Central Policy and Strategy Commission.

In his opening remarks, Le Quoc Minh, Editor-in-Chief of Nhan Dan Newspaper, stated that one of the key drivers of the socialist-oriented market economy in the coming period—affirmed by the Party—is the private economy, as the most important driver of the national economy. Together with the state sector, it can create breakthroughs in innovation; develop the digital economy, green economy, and circular economy; participate more deeply in global value chains; and realize the aspiration for a prosperous and happy nation.

In his presentation, Mr. Dang Tung Son, Senior Vice President (SVP) and Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) of CMC Technology Group, said that Resolutions No. 57 and 68 are “two strategic pillars that are organically linked”: while Resolution No. 57 identifies science and technology, innovation, and digital transformation as the primary drivers for Vietnam to achieve double-digit growth, Resolution No. 68 clarifies that the private economy is the most important driver and the pioneering force to realize those drivers in practice.

Photo 2: Mr. Dang Tung Son, Senior Vice President (SVP) and Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) of CMC Technology Group, delivering his presentation at the seminar.

According to CMC’s representative, traditional momentum-based growth is gradually reaching its limits. To realize the country’s long-term development goals toward 2045, a prerequisite is to “unleash the people’s strength”—particularly the creativity, investment capacity, and innovation capability of private enterprises. When businesses have sufficiently broad “development space,” science and technology programs can be converted into productivity, products, and national competitiveness.

Three technology spearheads highlighted by CMC: Cloud, AI, and Cybersecurity

At the seminar, CMC focused on three foundational capability groups—cloud, AI, and cybersecurity—components the company considers essential “inputs” for large-scale digital transformation and AI transformation.

In cloud, CMC introduced CMC Cloud, oriented toward developing a cloud computing platform mastered by Vietnamese engineers. The company stated that after 10 years of implementation, the platform has mastered “Make in Vietnam” infrastructure and technology, moving toward a “sovereign cloud” model that meets safety and security requirements; it is also serving several national-scale platforms as well as many financial and banking organizations.

In AI, CMC cited its capability to build a Vietnamese large language model with 72 billion parameters, while also developing a Vietnamese legal virtual assistant for lookup, document review, and professional workflow support. This solution has been piloted at the Office of the National Assembly and the Ministry of Justice with approximately 3,000 users.

On cybersecurity, CMC raised “mastering core technologies” as a critical requirement in a context where data, platforms, and standards risk being influenced by external technology centers. The company emphasized that investment in science and technology should be viewed as investment in national sovereignty; and that cybersecurity must be integrated alongside AI, data, and digital infrastructure from the design stage.

Photo 3: The seminar “Resolutions No. 57-NQ/TW and 68-NQ/TW: A foundation for private enterprises to make breakthroughs in science and technology development, innovation, and digital transformation.”

“Reform must be substantive”: from mechanisms to implementation capacity

According to Mr. Dang Tung Son, the double-digit growth target is only feasible if institutional reforms are sufficiently deep and consistently implemented—especially at “touchpoints” between the State and enterprises. From a technology business perspective, CMC believes the public administration apparatus must shift decisively toward a service-oriented, companion mindset; only then can new resolutions be translated into real projects, products, and competitiveness.

In that spirit, CMC proposed several directions to “expand market space” for private enterprises.

First, expand and stabilize conditions for private enterprises to participate in investing in digital infrastructure for national-level challenges—from data centers, cloud, and AI to shared digital platforms. According to CMC, this approach helps reduce pressure on public investment, raise competitiveness, and attract high-quality capital flows from both domestic and international sources.

Second, with an AI-First approach, training large language models requires enormous computing capacity; CMC recommended mechanisms for private enterprises to participate in operating high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure / AI data centers under public–private partnership (PPP) models, providing computing services for the public sector and the AI startup community.

Third, promote “market-shaping” through public procurement: CMC recommended mechanisms to ensure fair competition and open public procurement packages for science and technology to all stakeholders—especially private enterprises and SMEs—while prioritizing procurement of “Make in Viet Nam” products that have mastered core technologies, thereby creating an initial market and commercial confidence.

Complementing this solution set, CMC committed to acting as an “anchor enterprise,” leading the development of a localization portfolio to connect SMEs and startups; and proposed studying a scoring/incentive mechanism for enterprises with accompanying ecosystems and strong technology diffusion potential.

Concluding the presentation, CMC’s representative emphasized a transition from the phase of “establishing and kickstarting” to “deep implementation”—turning policy into products and ideas into real-world value. The company affirmed its readiness to accompany and share responsibility in translating strategic orientations into national competitiveness in a new era.