Illustrative image (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – A high-level webinar on digitaleconomy – the key of growth in new normal context took place on September 16, under the sponsorship of the Party Central Committee’s Economic Commission, in coordination with the Vietnam e-Commerce and Digital Economy Agency under the Ministry of Industry and Trade.
In his opening remarks, deputy head of the Party CentralCommittee’s Economic Commission Nguyen Duc Hien said the 13th National Party Congress laid out the guideline on accelerating national digitaltransformation and development of digital economy based on science, technologyand innovation.
He stressed that the Politburo’s Resolution No.52-NQ/TW dated September 27, 2019on several policies and guidelines for proactively joining the fourth industrialrevolution also set the development of digital economy as a pillar and a keystrategic task in the process of national digital transformation forsubsequent years. It also set the target that the digital economy willaccount for 20 percent of GDP by 2025 and 30 percent by2030.
At the event (Photo: qdnd.vn)Hien said despite a boom in fintech, telecoms, production ofcomputers and electronics, information technology and communications services, the digital economy still faces a number of barriers, one of which is the loose and inconsistent institutions and legal environment. The fast development of new business forms poses challenges to management work of State agencies.
Policymakers, experts and business executives discussed new development trends of the digital economy in Vietnam,and pointing out opportunities and challenges faced by enterprises during the digitaltransformation process. They stressed the need to complete institutions and legal framework for the digital economy, step up digitalisation in State management agencies, promote electronic payment, improve human resource quality, and facilitate newbusiness models, products and services.
Hien said the Economic Commission will study recommendations made at theevent and closely monitor the implementation of the Resolution 52-NQ/TW in order to build a scheme on guidelines and mechanisms for industrialisation,modernisation till 2030 with a vision to 2045 to submit to the Party CentralCommittee in October 2022./.
