In the meeting, Deputy Minister Nguyễn Quân expressed his thanks Professor Fang Yan for paying a visit to Vietnam and working with MOST. Deputy Minister Nguyễn Quân affirmed that Vietnam’s MOST has paid special attention to S&T valuation, which is a meaningful activity in the process of promoting technology renovation and increasing the importance as well as efficiency of research topics.
Over the past time, in order to promote the S&T evaluation activities, Vietnam’s MOST has cooperated with many evaluation organizations from countries in the region and the world. China is one of countries with traditional and long-term relationships with Vietnam and the promotion of bilateral relations between Vietnam and China in the S&T field, especially in S&T evaluation has been strengthened.
Vietnam and China are two countries of many similarities in terms of culture, economics, politics; therefore the expansion of cooperative relations, experience sharing between the two countries in the evaluation field would bring in effective results.
Deputy Minister Nguyễn Quân highly appreciated the cooperation as well as activities carried out by Professor Fang Yan and his colleagues for Vietnam’s S&T evaluation activities over the past time. The Deputy Minister hoped that the cooperation in S&T field between the two countries would be developed more and more. Experiences shared by China would promote S&T evaluation activities better and better. The Deputy Minister also affirmed that in the coming time more favorable information channels would be developed to improve the efficiency of evaluation activities and strengthen the S&T cooperation between the two countries.
The role of S&T evaluation activities in the country’s development has been affirmed by Professor Fang Yan. According to him, evaluation can be developed and brought into its full play only when it is paid attention by the Government and executive agencies. This should be a continuous process, which needs to follow strict principles. Professor Fang Yan also expressed his impression on fast development steps Vietnam in general and MOST in particular have achieved over the past time. He said that he together with his colleagues would be ready to provide supports and share with Vietnam’s Institute of Science Assessment and Technology Valuation their experience in the development of the evaluation roadmap. Professor Fang Yan expressed “I hope the mission of S&T evaluation under the comprehensive guidance and leadership of Vietnam’s MOST would achieve more and more good results”.
Currently, Vietnam’s MOST has cooperated with China not only in the evaluation field but also in fields of Standards, Metrology and Quality, Intellectual Property and some other works, which has achieved good results. Vietnam has signed the Cooperation Agreement with China in fields of Standards, Metrology and Quality, Intellectual Property. Recently Vietnam’s MOST and the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of People’s Republics of China (AQSIQ) organized the “Vietnam-China Cooperative Forum on Certification and Reorganization of Product Quality”.