Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan has urged Ho Chi Minh City
to promptly finalise its Integrated Circuit (IC) Industrial Development
Programme for 2013-2020 to serve the revolution in information
technology.
At a working session with the programme’s
insiders on April 9, Nhan suggested the city learn experiences from
India, the Republic of Korea and China which have shown good
performances in the field.
He highlighted the
necessity to identify Vietnamese IC producers’ competitiveness and the
adoption of competitive policies to lure leading experts both at home
and abroad into spurring the sector’s development.
Nhan’s views
were shared by Le Manh Ha, Vice Chairman of the municipal People’s
Committee, who also underlined the creation of an IC market for the
industry to grow.
Ngo Duc Hoang, Director of the
Integrated Circuit Design Research and Education Centre said the
programme aims to enable the municipal IT industry to shift from
assembling to manufacturing key components and even complete products,
produce components and devices in service of security and defence, and
support a robust development of the software industry.
It will include seven projects that cover personnel training, IC
business incubation, trial design and production, factory construction,
market development and policies for IC development, Hoang said.-VNA