On the morning of May 18, the People’s Committee of Dong Thap Province organized a scientific conference titled “Orienting the New Growth Model – Driven by Science, Technology, Innovation, and Digital Transformation as Core Engines.”
At the conference, experts, scientists, managers, and the business community engaged in in-depth analyses of the bottlenecks and challenges facing the province. These include: growth quality that is not yet fully sustainable, a low rate of deep processing, and unsynchronized logistics and digital infrastructure. Additionally, businesses’ capacity to absorb and apply technology remains limited, the innovation ecosystem is not yet strong enough, and digital transformation in certain sectors has not yielded distinct value added.
Furthermore, participants proposed numerous orientations and solutions of high scientific and practical value, offering new approaches to policy formulation, scientific and technological development, innovation, and the construction of a growth model tailored to the developmental conditions of Dong Thap Province in the coming period.
Mr. Phan Trong Tuong, Deputy Director of the Dong Thap Department of Science and Technology, stated: “Science, technology, innovation, data, and digital transformation are becoming vital drivers for generating productivity, value added, and competitiveness. Dong Thap Province possesses significant potential in agriculture, processing industries, logistics, trade, and services.”
However, to effectively exploit these potentials, the province needs to progressively transition its growth model toward a more modern direction, leveraging science, technology, innovation, and digital transformation as the foundation to drive development. This requirement aligns with the locality’s developmental orientation for the new era.
In the coming period, Dong Thap Province will continue to aggressively reform its development mindset, expanding production scales toward a growth model driven by productivity, science, technology, innovation, and the digital economy. The province determines that science, technology, innovation, and digital transformation are not merely supporting sectors but must truly become the core engines driving socio-economic development in the new phase. Priority will be given to building an open innovation ecosystem, strengthening the triple-helix linkages between the State, institutes/universities, and enterprises, while vigorously promoting applied research, technology transfer, and the commercialization of research outcomes.
Additionally, the province will develop sectors with breakthrough potential, such as: ecological agriculture, high-tech agriculture; deep processing industries, logistics, and regional connectivity infrastructure; the digital economy, digital data, artificial intelligence; e-commerce, and new economic models.
