{"id":13295,"date":"2021-03-18T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/03\/18\/viet-nam-national-university-ho-chi-minh-city-aims-at-becoming-nucleus-of-ho-chi-minh-citys-innovative-eastern-urban-area\/"},"modified":"2021-03-18T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T09:00:00","slug":"viet-nam-national-university-ho-chi-minh-city-aims-at-becoming-nucleus-of-ho-chi-minh-citys-innovative-eastern-urban-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/03\/18\/viet-nam-national-university-ho-chi-minh-city-aims-at-becoming-nucleus-of-ho-chi-minh-citys-innovative-eastern-urban-area\/","title":{"rendered":"Viet Nam National University Ho Chi Minh City aims at becoming nucleus of Ho Chi Minh City\u2019s innovative eastern urban area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n                            <!--<a class=\"format-txt\" href=\"{baseURL}\/View\/{release.id}?_download=1\">View this article in .txt format<\/a>--><\/p>\n<p>HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\">Media OutReach<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; 18 March 2021 &#8211; The HCM City People&#8217;s&#13;<br \/>\nCommittee has recognised the <a href=\"https:\/\/vnuhcm.edu.vn\/\">Vi\u1ec7t Nam National University Ho Chi Minh City (VNUHCM)<\/a>&#13;<br \/>\nas a hub of science, technology, culture, and knowledge in the city&#8217;s&#13;<br \/>\ninnovative eastern area.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>The area has contributed&#13;<br \/>\nto the establishment of a value-added chain for a high-technology platform and&#13;<br \/>\ninternational standard technical infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>City leaders are&#13;<br \/>\nexpecting the eastern innovative urban area to help connect science-technology&#13;<br \/>\nresearch and application centres, high-quality human resource training&#13;<br \/>\ninstitutions, hi-tech products, services trading and production centres.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>The area will become a&#13;<br \/>\nhub that spearheads economic development in the city and southern region in the&#13;<br \/>\ncontext of industry 4.0.<b\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>Innovative&#13;<br \/>\ncenter\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><b\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Spread over 643 ha, VNUHCM&#13;<br \/>\nhas&#13;<br \/>\nbeen developed as a centre to train undergraduates and postgraduates and carry on&#13;<br \/>\nhigh-quality research in many fields to serve the country&#8217;s socio-economic&#13;<br \/>\ndevelopment needs.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>It is the largest higher&#13;<br \/>\neducation establishment in the country with 36 institutions for training,&#13;<br \/>\nresearching and transferring technologies, including seven member universities:&#13;<br \/>\nthe University of Technology, University of Science, University of Social&#13;<br \/>\nSciences and Humanities, International University, University of Information&#13;<br \/>\nTechnology, University of Economics and Law, and An Giang University, and the&#13;<br \/>\nInstitute for Environment and Resources.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>In addition, in the 2016&#13;<br \/>\n\u2013 2020 period, VNUHCM has trained more than 60,000 engineers, doctors,&#13;<br \/>\ngraduates, postgraduates, and PhDs who are certain to contribute to the&#13;<br \/>\ndevelopment of the city and southern region.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>As of now it has had 66&#13;<br \/>\ninternationally accredited training programmes and was ranked in the top&#13;<br \/>\n701-750 in the 2020 QS World University Rankings. In this period, it presented&#13;<br \/>\nmore than 20,000 scientific research papers at conferences and published them&#13;<br \/>\nin local and international journals.\u00a0 VNUHCM signed more than 3,000 contracts&#13;<br \/>\nwith provinces and enterprises for technology transfer worth nearly VN\u0110 250&#13;<br \/>\nbillion (US$10.8 million) a year in the 2016-2020 period.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>A household aquaponic&#13;<br \/>\nmodel that integrates vegetable and fish farming has, for instance, been&#13;<br \/>\ntransferred to T\u00e2y Ninh and \u0110\u1ed3ng Th\u00e1p provinces. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, cartilatist&#13;<br \/>\nstem medicine has been developed by the Stem Cell Institute at the University&#13;<br \/>\nof Science to treat osteoarthritis and degenerative spinal conditions.&#13;<br \/>\nSubsequently, it has been transferred to the V\u1ea1n H\u1ea1nh General Hospital Co. Ltd. An&#13;<br \/>\nautomatic system to monitor and warn about saltwater intrusion has been transferred to the provinces of An&#13;<br \/>\nGiang and V\u0129nh Long.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>During COVID-19&#13;<br \/>\noutbreaks last year, VNUHCM researchers developed a number of products used for&#13;<br \/>\nthe prevention and control of epidemics.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>The number of papers VNUHCM published in&#13;<br \/>\ninternational journals doubled in the 2016-2020 period from the previous five years.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>As of October 2020, it had filed 527&#13;<br \/>\napplications<b> <\/b>for patents and 566 technology&#13;<br \/>\ntransfer contracts and scientific services that fetched revenues of VN\u0110104.2&#13;<br \/>\nbillion (US$4,5 million).<b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>In The World University Rankings 2021 of&#13;<br \/>\n1,527 universities, VNUHCM was in 658th spot in the category of income from&#13;<br \/>\ntechnology transfer and 838th in international potential. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>One of VNUHCM&#8217;s strategies is to continue focusing on&#13;<br \/>\nscientific and technological development and innovation to help implement&#13;<br \/>\nnational and southern region development strategies and to raise its&#13;<br \/>\ninternational profile.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>In&#13;<br \/>\n2020-2030&#13;<br \/>\nperiod, it plans to offer&#13;<br \/>\ninternational-standard training programmes in ICT, AI and urban&#13;<br \/>\nmanagement.\u00a0AI applications for use in traffic regulation, healthcare,&#13;<br \/>\nfinance, and commerce will be developed during this period.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>VNUHCM is one of the&#13;<br \/>\nhigher education establishments in the country offering students training programs in two majors simultaneously. It has&#13;<br \/>\ntied up with a number of member universities of the ASEAN University Network-the ASEAN Credit Transfer System for exchange&#13;<br \/>\nstudents and also has agreements with universities in the US, the UK, France,&#13;<br \/>\nAustralia, and other countries.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>In the last 25 years VNUHCM&#13;<br \/>\nhas adopted modern methodologies and&#13;<br \/>\nintegrated technologies for training.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>In November in last year&#13;<br \/>\nVNUHCM signed an agreement with&#13;<br \/>\nthe Saigon Hi-Tech Park for technology transfer to enterprises in the park for commercialisation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>They will join hands for&#13;<br \/>\nan action plan to establish the innovative eastern urban&#13;<br \/>\narea, a high-quality human resource training programme at hi-tech industries and an innovative start-up ecosystem.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>VNUHCM&#8217;s Innovative&#13;<br \/>\nEntrepreneurship Center has carried out many&#13;<br \/>\nprogrammes to assist start-ups and links these&#13;<br \/>\nstart-ups with investors and service&#13;<br \/>\nproviders.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Assoc.&#13;<br \/>\nProf. Dr. V\u0169&#13;<br \/>\nH\u1ea3i Qu\u00e2n, VNUHCM&#8217;s chancellor, said skilled human&#13;<br \/>\nresources, technology transfer, advanced IT, and&#13;<br \/>\npolicies for development are key pillars for&#13;<br \/>\nsetting up the innovative eastern urban area. The project is implemented in Th\u1ee7&#13;<br \/>\n\u0110\u1ee9c City and spreads over nearly 21,000 hectares. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the innovative&#13;<br \/>\neastern area has invested in traffic systems including the metro line 1,&#13;<br \/>\nBelt Road No.3 and the HCM City-Long Th\u00e0nh-D\u1ea7u Gi\u00e2y expressway, which helps&#13;<br \/>\nconnect with neighbouring provinces.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>In January, the city&#13;<br \/>\nPeople&#8217;s Committee approved the master plan to develop the innovative eastern urban&#13;<br \/>\narea in the 2020-2035 period and it will be carried out in three specific stages.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>According to VNUHCM,&#13;<br \/>\nwhile carrying out the work, city authorities and relevant agencies should pay&#13;<br \/>\nclose attention to developing traffic infrastructure in the innovative eastern urban area especially VNUHCM&#13;<br \/>\nand Saigon Hi-Tech Park to create the most favourable&#13;<br \/>\nconditions for interaction and&#13;<br \/>\ndevelopment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>VNUHCM aims to become&#13;<br \/>\nthe nucleus of the area by 2030.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/release.php\/View\/69365#Contact\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM &#8211; Media OutReach\u00a0&#8211; 18 March 2021 &#8211; The HCM City People&#8217;s&#13; Committee has recognised the Vi\u1ec7t Nam National University Ho Chi Minh City (VNUHCM)&#13; as a hub of science, technology, culture, and knowledge in the city&#8217;s&#13; innovative eastern area. &#13; &#13; The area has contributed&#13; to the establishment of a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13295"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}