Working with the Delegation were Mr. Duong Van Thai - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the National Assembly Delegation of Bac Giang Province; Mr. Le Anh Duong - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Ms. Lam Thi Huong Thanh - Standing Vice Chairwoman of the Provincial People's Council; members of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee, representing leaders of provincial departments and branches.

Order lychee preservation technology, support to promote scientific and technological development

Speaking to welcome and exchange with the delegation, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Mr. Duong Van Thai gave an overview of the province's socio-economic development. Despite being heavily affected by the Covid-19 pandemic in 2021, Bac Giang has developed comprehensively in all fields, especially economic growth and industry, maintaining its growth momentum; Consumption of agricultural products is favorable, especially lychee is not rescued.

Entering 2022, Bac Giang implements safe, flexible adaptation and effective control of the Covid-19 pandemic under the direction of the Central Government. In the first months of the year, Bac Giang achieved positive results. Typically, Bac Giang is the first locality in the country to be approved by the Prime Minister of the Provincial Planning for the period of 2021-2030, with a vision to 2050. This is an important basis for the province to deploy tasks in all fields. next time.

In the development process, Bac Giang identifies the important role of S&T. Therefore, during this term, Bac Giang directed to accelerate digital transformation and promote the application of S&T. The province has concretized by resolutions, mechanisms and policies to promote the application of S&T.

He affirmed that S&T make great contributions in all fields, typically contributing to improving the value of local agricultural products such as lychee, hill chicken. The province is also interested in arranging and implementing provincial and national S&T projects. In the coming time, Bac Giang promotes the application of S&T, he wishes the province will be of interest to the Ministry of S&T, accompanying the province in this field so that Bac Giang S&T can have a new development.

He said that Bac Giang has the largest lychee acreage in the country, mainly consuming fresh products, and the amount of lychee for processing is very small. Large fresh lychee production is harvested in a short time, so consumption is difficult. Therefore, Bac Giang ordered the Ministry of S&T to introduce and search for lychee processing and preservation technology. If the right technology is selected, the value of lychee will increase many times.

At the meeting, Mr. Nguyen Thanh Binh - Director of Bac Giang Department of S&T asked the Ministry of S&T to support the province in organizing demonstration events and connecting technology supply and demand with regional or national scale; invest in the construction and development of the Center for S&T Application of Bac Giang province into a large-scale scientific and technological research and application center in the Northern midland and mountainous; build high-tech agricultural production areas, key models for the construction and application of an advanced quality management system; participate in programs of the Ministry of S&T.

Bac Giang prioritizes investment in funding and human resources for S&T

Through grasping the implementation and development orientation of S&T of Bac Giang, representatives of units under the Ministry of S&T highly appreciated the province's S&T activities in recent years with many outstanding results. Many new varieties of plants and animals have been domesticated, becoming the main product of Bac Giang. Businesses and cooperatives are proactive in establishing intellectual property, marketing and promoting their brands. Bac Giang is also the locality that organizes the Creative Idea Contest, encourages and attracts many participants, thereby S&T tasks to solve local problems that few places can do.

Concluding the meeting, Minister of S&T, Mr. Huynh Thanh Dat congratulated the achievements of S&T that Bac Giang province has achieved in recent years. The above-mentioned results are a solid foundation to ensure the province's development faster and more sustainably in the coming period.

In order for the province's S&T activities become an important driving force for local socio-economic development, successfully completing the objectives of the Resolution of the Bac Giang Provincial Party Congress for the 2020- 2025 tenure, he suggested that the province should pay attention and invest funds and human resources for innovation and S&T activities; arrange staff, train human resources and strengthen the organizational apparatus for the S&T, contributing to S&T becoming one of the breakthrough solutions in socio-economic development and ensuring national security and defense.

Steping up the application and transfer of advanced scientific and technical advances. In which, priority is given to agricultural production using high technology, smart agriculture, and clean agriculture; transportation, smart city, eco-tourism associated with spiritual culture, smart production, new environmentally friendly material technology in production and life.

Developing mechanisms and policies to encourage investment attraction of enterprises and encourage enterprises to establish S&T Development Fund; promoting the development of large-scale S&T enterprises that play a pioneering role in research and technology transfer activities, gradually taking enterprises as the center of innovation.

He emphasized that Bac Giang is gradually becoming the center of industrial production in the North, so the province should pay attention to the technological level, the modern advanced level of equipment and technology of the projects. investment licensing. Promoting the protection of rights establishment and exploitation, promoting the value of intellectual property for products and goods that have been formed in domestic and foreign markets.

The recommendations and proposals of Bac Giang province are urgent, in the general spirit of the Ministry of Science and Technology to support and assign to relevant departments and units to advise and coordinate in the implementation in the coming time. However, he also suggested that the province review, consider and propose key issues that are pervasive and have a great impact on many localities, industries and fields to prioritize implementation in accordance with their capacity./.