WEF Chairman hails Vietnam for facilitating start-ups
Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Prof. Klaus Schwab has hailed the role of the Vietnamese government, including the Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST), in improving business climate and encouraging start-ups and innovations.
Minister of Science and Technology Chu Ngoc Anh (Source: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Executive Chairman of the WorldEconomic Forum (WEF) Prof. Klaus Schwab has hailed the role of the Vietnamesegovernment, including the Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST), in improvingbusiness climate and encouraging start-ups and innovations.
During a meeting with Minister of Science and Technology ChuNgoc Anh in Hanoi on September 11, Schwab lauded Vietnam for creating anenvironment that facilitates the mastery of new technologies involvingartificial intelligence and robotics.
According to him, the WEF has opened centres on industrialrevolution 4.0 in Beijing and Singapore, and will focus on building a similarfacility in Vietnam in the next 12 months.
Minister Anh, for his part, appreciated the initiative bythe WEF and the WEF Chairman himself on holding an open forum on start-ups andinnovation within the WEF ASEAN 2018 framework. He said the forum gave Vietnama chance to acquire valuable information from domestic and foreign communitiesas well as from WEF experts to develop a start-up ecological system in thecountry.
The MoST is working closely with other ministries andagencies to build a science-technology and innovation strategy with vision to2035 and a scenario for the fourth industrial revolution in Vietnam.
Both sides expressed their delight at the development ofties between the WEF and Vietnamese government, including growing ties betweenthe WEF and MoST.-VNA
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The ruling People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) attaches great importance to the friendship, solidarity, and comradeship with the Communist Party of Vietnam, and voiced her Party’s wish to further deepen and expand relations between the two sides for the benefit of the Vietnamese and Angolan people.
Vietnam pledges to do its utmost to build an ASEAN of solidarity, consensus, and unity in diversity, and to foster a fast and sustainable development path for ASEAN, grounded in science, technology, and innovation, said Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh.
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The achievements of the five decades of Vietnam–Angola cooperation provide a strong and enduring foundation, as well as momentum for the two sides to consolidate, expand, and bring their partnership into a new phase of development.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh stressed that the emulation and commendation work is a vital driver, fostering patriotism, dedication, and collective momentum in the run-up to the 11th National Patriotic Emulation Congress, Party congresses at all levels, and the 14th National Party Congress.
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Over the past five decades, the Vietnam - Angola relationship has grown steadily, marked by political trust and close bonds between their Parties, States, Governments, and peoples, said Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son.
Minister of Science and Technology Chu Ngoc Anh (Source: VNA) 
