This year, Ho Chi Minh City Department of Industry and Trade continues to support businesses to participate in trade promotion activities, promote production and trade in energy-saving and green energy products.

The International Innovation Event 2023 (InnoEx 2023) with the goal of promoting innovation activities and developing green economy is scheduled to take place in Ho Chi Minh City.

The Australian government has just funded 3.6 million Australian dollars (equivalent to nearly 57 billion VND) for a project to plant trees on the Moon in 2026. In the group participating in the project was a Vietnamese-Australian scientist - Assoc. Prof. Dr. Huynh Tien.

On July 20, Ho Chi Minh City Department of Science and Technology held a conference to review the work of the first 6 months of 2023 and the middle of the term to implement the Resolution of the XIII Party Congress of the Department of Science and Technology for the term of 2020-2025.

As a scientific and technological research task at the city level, chaired by Polytechnic University (VNU-HCM), Assoc. The study was carried out by Prof. Dr. Nguyen Thi Bay. Department of Science and Technology of Ho Chi Minh City accepted in 2022.

To promote Fintech start-ups applied in rural areas, a very important issue is capital. This is a major bottleneck that requires supportive policies and the establishment of support funds from the State and businesses for the purpose of incubating startups. Because if there is no "incubation" investment, how can there be billion-dollar businesses in the future.

The Ministry of Science and Technology has developed a draft Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Standards and Technical Regulations; a dossier of request for formulation of a Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Science and Technology and the Law on amendments and supplements to a number of articles of the Law on product and goods quality, quality assurance and progress to submitte to the Government.

Reducing research latency, connecting scientific research with the market, quickly putting research results into practice, requires a policy platform to create a good enough environment for research.

The Ministry of Information and Communications has just announced the ranking results of the Digital Transformation Index (DTI) in 2022. Accordingly, Ho Chi Minh City continues to rise to the second position in the country. This is the third year in a row that the city has been evaluated for the effective implementation of the Digital Transformation Program.

Dr. Hoang Phuong Ha (Institute of Biotechnology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology) and colleagues are harnessing the power of beneficial microorganisms to support aquaculture.