Hanoi (VNA) – Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has decided topresent the Vietnam National Quality Awards 2020 to 61 enterprises, with 21receiving the golden prize.
Among the 21 businesses honoured with the golden prize, 18are production enterprises and three operate in services.
Meanwhile, the remaining 40 award winners include 33production enterprises, and 7 service companies.
The Vietnam National Quality Awards are the Prime Minister’sannual recognition of organisations and enterprises with remarkable qualityachievements in production, business activities and services, thus helping topromote the standing of Vietnamese products and services in the domestic andforeign markets.
The awards, first presented in 1996, were initiated by theDirectorate for Standards, Metrology and Quality under the Ministry of Scienceand Technology./.
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Businesses receive Vietnam National Quality Awards - Illustrative image (Source: VNA) 
