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Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha emphasized this requirement at a meeting to listen to a report on the status of developing a draft Decree stipulating the assignment of tasks, ordering and criteria for selecting Vietnamese organizations and enterprises assigned tasks and placing orders to provide railway industry services and goods (Draft Decree), on the morning of October 16. Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha emphasized that the highest goal is to form an independent, self-reliant railway industry, capable of mastering the value chain and core technology - Photo: VGP/Minh KhoiSelecting businesses with potential, capable of accessing advanced technology According to a report from the Ministry of Construction, the draft Decree aims to establish a legal mechanism to gradually form core enterprises to create a premise for the domestic railway industry to develop and form a product supply chain. production railway industrial products and goods; gradually master technology, aiming to create national brand railway industrial products. The content of the draft Decree is new regulations, regulated for the first time according to the tasks assigned in the 2025 Railway Law, and related resolutions of the National Assembly. The draft Decree aims to solve practical problems in that there are no regulations on assigning tasks and ordering the provision of railway industrial services and goods using budget capital other than regular expenditures. This Draft Decree has revised and completed the criteria for selecting suppliers in a strict manner, ensuring the selection of businesses with real potential, capable of accessing advanced railway technology, playing a core role, leading the domestic industry, and deeply participating in the supply chain. Adapting railway industrial products, gradually mastering technology, aiming to build a national brand in this field. Deputy Minister of Construction Nguyen Danh Huy spoke - Photo: VGP/Minh Khoi Criteria groups include: Financial capacity; facilities; human resource capacity; capacity and experience in performing tasks; product quality. Notably, smaller-scale enterprises are allowed to participate in some components of railway industry goods and services as supporting partners, creating a foundation for forming a domestic supporting industrial chain, promoting comprehensive development of Vietnams railway industry. Deputy Minister of Finance Do Thanh Trung spoke - Photo: VGP/Minh Khoi The draft also stipulates the content of assigning tasks and placing orders to provide railway industrial services and goods; implementation sequence; responsibilities of the assigning agency, ordering agency and supplier. It is necessary to study the general engineer model. Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha said that if the market is left to operate on its own, individual purchasing investors will not be able to form large enough businesses, while investment in the railway industry requires huge resources. If you want businesses to develop sustainably, there must be a centralized mechanism and strong enough policies directed by the State to create markets and form basic industries, independent mechanical manufacturing, self-design, and self-production. When the State commits, businesses dare to make big investments, the Deputy Prime Minister affirmed and said that there must be outstanding policies on land, taxes or research, reception, and technology transfer. Citing Chinese experience with dozens of large enterprises and thousands of businesses support, the Deputy Prime Minister said that the State needs to proactively shape and place orders for capable businesses, develop systems for producing components and details in the production chain, thereby forming a support industry for the Vietnamese railway industry. At the meeting, representatives of a number of ministries and branches said that building an ordering mechanism in railway industry development must be seen as placing faith in new, unprecedented fields. Therefore, it is necessary to clearly determine who has the right to place orders to avoid fragmentation and overlap during implementation. In particular, it is necessary to study the model of a general engineer with sufficient authority and capacity to coordinate, connect and supervise implementation, ensuring synchronization among participating entities. The Decree needs to be linked to the development roadmap and localization capabilities of domestic enterprises, based on actual needs until 2030 and vision to 2045. Ordering needs to clearly identify the products that domestic enterprises can produce, localize and supply. for existing types of railways organic, urban and high-speed. Ordering criteria need to be divided into two categories. For products and services formed in the future, businesses must have factories, lines, technology, labor, production capacity, inspection, warranty, maintenance and financial capacity. For existing products, the main criteria are standard conformity, regulation conformity, inspection, warranty, maintenance and synchronization. In some cases, to ensure synchronization and compatibility of equipment, the decree needs to allow orders to import components and components that cannot be produced domestically but are necessary to ensure the unity of the entire railway system. General Director of Vietnam Railway Corporation Hoang Gia Khanh made recommendations - Photo: VGP/Minh Khoi Deputy Minister of Finance Do Thanh Trung said that the decree on the ordering mechanism in the railway sector is not just a regulation on task assignment or procurement, but is an important step to realize the policy of developing science, technology and railway mechanical industry. Besides, in industrial development, especially the mechanical industry, no business can stand alone, but it is necessary to form an ecosystem of affiliated businesses. Therefore, the approach must be clear about the type, criteria and capacity of participating businesses. Cri
