Prime Minister urges acceleration of science, technology, and innovation

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh recently signed Directive No. 33/CT-TTg dated November 6, 2025, on accelerating the timely and effective implementation of tasks assigned under the Government's Resolution No. 71/NQ-CP dated April 1, 2025, and the conclusions issued by the Central Steering Committee.

51 tasks remain overdue and incomplete

According to Directive No. 33/CT-TTg, over the past period, thanks to the drastic direction of the Government and the Prime Minister, along with the involvement of the entire political system, the work on developing science and technology, innovation, national digital transformation, and administrative reform and implementing Project 06 has achieved important and positive initial results. These outcomes have contributed to the country's socio-economic development and have been recognized by the international community.

However, during the implementation, several shortcomings and limitations still need to be promptly addressed. As of October 28, 2025, there are still 51 overdue tasks. The rate of fully online public service applications remains low at 39.98%, with ministries and sectors at 54.46% and provincial authorities at 16.94%, far below the 2025 target of 80%.

Data quality in national and sectoral databases has yet to meet the criteria of being "accurate, complete, clean, and live," posing challenges for data connectivity, sharing, and reuse. As a result, citizens are still required to repeatedly submit the same documents unnecessarily. Ensuring information security and cybersecurity also faces shortcomings, while human resources for monitoring and incident response remain limited.

The above-mentioned limitations and shortcomings stem from various causes, both objective and subjective. However, a key bottleneck is that the heads of certain agencies have not demonstrated sufficient determination or direct involvement. The workload is large and increasing, while implementation has yet to keep pace with new demands and conditions. There are still signs of pushing the responsibility and a fear of making mistakes. In addition, several information systems and digital platforms of ministries and sectors remain overloaded, suffer from operational errors and instability, and have yet to ensure seamless connectivity with local administrative procedure processing systems.

Definitively resolving overdue tasks

To address existing shortcomings and limitations and to create strong and substantial progress in carrying out key tasks in the final months of 2025, the Prime Minister, Head of the Government’s Steering Committee for Developing Science and Technology, Innovation, Digital Transformation, and Project 06, has requested ministries, sectors, and localities to identify the development of science and technology, innovation, digital transformation, and administrative reform as a key and urgent political task.

The Prime Minister also suggested that ministries, sectors, and localities demonstrate greater determination and take more decisive action, focusing on key tasks. For each assigned task, agencies must thoroughly adhere to and strictly implement the principle of “six clears”: clear people, clear tasks, clear timelines, clear responsibility, clear outcomes, and clear authority, while ensuring effective implementation through inspection and supervision. It is also essential to mobilize maximum resources and strengthen direction and management to prioritize the definitive resolution of overdue tasks and those assigned under the Government’s Resolution No. 71/NQ-CP dated April 1, 2025, and the Central Steering Committee’s plans, regulations, and conclusions.

Strive to complete 100% of the 2025 workload with quality and efficiency

The Prime Minister has asked ministries, sectors, and localities to proactively and actively use the Information System for Monitoring and Evaluating the Implementation of Resolution No. 57-NQ/TW (http://nq57.vn) to daily monitor and supervise the implementation of tasks and solutions within their scope of authority. They must promptly address difficulties, obstacles, and bottlenecks arising during the implementation, striving to complete 100% of the 2025 workload with quality and efficiency.

Ministers, heads of ministerial-level agencies and government bodies, as well as chairpersons of provincial and municipal People’s Committees, are instructed to immediately handle individuals and organizations responsible for delays or slow task implementation. Appropriate measures must be taken to deal with individuals who are unwilling to act, avoid or shift responsibility, work perfunctorily, fear accountability, cause delays, or fail to meet assigned work requirements, resulting in slow progress, prolonged tasks, and waste of resources.

VNeID is the sole account for online public services and other electronic transactions

The Prime Minister assigned the Ministry of Public Security to take the lead in accelerating the implementation of tasks and utilities under Project 06, ensuring the foundational and core role of the national population database and the electronic identification and authentication system. The Ministry is also responsible for guiding and urging ministries, sectors, and localities to shift to using VNeID as the sole account for online public services and other electronic transactions.

An evaluation, ranking, and public announcement process must be conducted to assess the readiness, interconnection, and data-sharing capacity of ministries, sectors, and localities. The principle of "data must be shared" must be upheld, except for data classified as state secrets. Any refusal to share data must be directly explained to the competent authority.

Directive No. 33/CT-TTg clearly stated that the heads of ministries, sectors, and agencies take full responsibility before the Government and the Prime Minister for the progress and quality of implementing key tasks within their management scope. Leadership and direction are defined as a key stage, requiring "talking the talk, walking the walk" to yield substantive results and clear improvements.