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General Secretary and President To Lam clearly stated that the urgent need today is to clearly define the goal of developing basic scientific research in the new period, ensuring to both handle immediate bottlenecks and create a long-term knowledge foundation for rapid and sustainable development of the country. Download General Secretary and President To Lam gave a directive speech - Photo: VNA On the morning of May 25, 2026, at the Party Central Committee Headquarters, General Secretary and President To Lam, Head of the Central Steering Committee for the development of science, technology, innovation and digital transformation, chaired a working session of the Standing Steering Committee to give policies on basic scientific research. The Government Electronic Newspaper respectfully introduces the full text of the Conclusion of General Secretary and President To Lam at the meeting: I basically agree with the reports and opinions, would like to summarize and emphasize a number of contents that need attention for leadership and direction in the coming time: basic scientific research must be strongly innovated in terms of awareness, institutions, investment mechanisms, implementation organizations and operating methods to meet the countrys development requirements in the new period. This is a strategic issue directly related to Vietnams development model, self-reliance and national position in the 21st century. I. We need to fully identify the context and objectively evaluate the current state of basic scientific research. First, the world is entering a new phase of strategic competition, in which knowledge, technology, data and talent become the foundation that determines national strength. Previously, countries competed mainly on resources, capital, labor and markets. Currently, core competition is competition on the ability to create new knowledge, new core technologies, new development models and innovative organizational capacity. The fields that are shaping the future of the world today such as artificial intelligence, semiconductors, quantum, biotechnology, new materials, data technology, new energy... all originate from basic research that has been continuously invested for decades. This shows that strong basic research means strong core technology, strategic autonomy and long-term national competitiveness. Second, for our country, the current growth model still relies heavily on outsourcing, assembly, resource exploitation, cheap labor and receiving technology from outside. Labor productivity, innovation capacity, ability to master platform technology and strategic autonomy capacity are still limited. To achieve the goal of becoming a developed, high-income country by 2045, we must strongly shift to a development model based on knowledge, science, technology, innovation, data, culture and people; in which Resolution No. 57 identified the development of science, technology, innovation and national digital transformation as the most important breakthroughs. Third, our awareness of the role of basic scientific research has made a very important shift. If in the past, basic science was seen as an in-depth academic activity of institutes and schools, now we consider this to be the nations knowledge foundation; is the basis for forming core technology, elite human resources, strategic forecasting capacity, policy making capacity and long-term autonomous development capacity. Up to now, our basic scientific research still has many limitations, inadequacies and is not commensurate with the countrys development requirements in the new period, that is, investment is still low, and a strong, stable, in-depth national basic research ecosystem has not been formed and is capable of long-term accumulation. Research activities are still scattered, lacking connection, lacking scientific schools, lacking strong research groups and not closely linked to the national development strategy. Basic research oriented to background knowledge has not been clearly classified; Application orientation and research directly serve strategic technology. Therefore, many places either pursue short-term publications or apply commercialization requirements to research that has the nature of long-term knowledge accumulation. The scientific management mechanism is still heavy on administrative thinking; Management by records, procedures, documents, annual estimates and fear of mistakes and responsibility. In many places, scientists spend more time on procedures than research. There is a lack of research centers of excellence, a lack of modern laboratories, a lack of large databases, a lack of shared computing infrastructure, and a lack of long-term investment mechanisms for strong research groups. Many equipment and laboratories still have scattered investment, lack of connection, and exploitation efficiency is not high. The issue of scientific human resources is a strategic bottleneck. Currently, we have not fully formed an ecosystem to discover, train, nurture, utilize and protect scientific talent. The team of leading experts in many fields is still thin; lack of nearby forces; Many young scientists do not have an environment for long-term development; Brain drain is still happening. Download General Secretary and President To Lam emphasized some necessary contentspay attention to leadership and direction in the coming time - Photo: VNA Fourth, for social sciences and humanities, it is necessary to more fully recognize the strategic role of this field in the current period. If natural sciences and technology create the foundation for national production and technological capacity, then social sciences and humanities create the foundation for leadership, governance, institution building, cultural and human development and maintaining social stability. A country can import technology, but cannot import a development model suitable to its own history, culture and conditions. Therefore, social sciences and humanities pl
