General Secretary and President To Lam visits Singapore's subway factory and testing center.
On May 30th, in Singapore, General Secretary and President To Lam, along with a high-level Vietnamese delegation, visited the Singapore Railway Testing Centre, a model factory for advanced manufacturing technology.
The delegation included Comrade Nguyen Khac Than - Member of the Central Committee of the Party, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, and Head of the National Assembly Delegation of Nghe An province.
The A*Star Model Factory, a model factory for advanced manufacturing technology, is one of Singapore's leading research and application facilities in the fields of smart industry, innovation, and digital transformation in manufacturing.
This facility serves as a model learning and testing factory, allowing businesses, research institutes, and regulatory agencies to directly experience, evaluate, and implement advanced manufacturing solutions, especially Industry 4.0 technologies such as autonomous robots and intelligent manufacturing operations systems, before applying them in practice.
From a policy perspective, this approach helps businesses overcome investment risk barriers by allowing them to "test before implementing" in a safe environment with partial government support.
After listening to the overview and touring the factory, General Secretary and President To Lam expressed his admiration for how Singapore creates an environment for businesses to directly test technology before making large investments. This is a very practical, constructive mindset: the State shares the initial risks, businesses boldly innovate, and scientists are closely linked to the production needs and productivity of the economy.
This is also the direction of thinking that Vietnam is promoting in its science and technology policy. If we only choose safety, there will be no breakthroughs. Therefore, Vietnam is perfecting a mechanism for accepting reasonable risks in research and encouraging the experimentation of new technologies.
The General Secretary and President stated that Vietnam identifies science, technology, innovation, and digital transformation as strategic drivers for rapid and sustainable development. Vietnam is promoting institutional reform, developing high-quality human resources, and building national technological capacity to participate more deeply in global value chains.
With the aspiration to build an economy based on knowledge, technology, and innovation, Vietnam recognizes that to achieve rapid and sustainable development, it must invest in science and technology, human resources, and advanced production capabilities.
The General Secretary and President shared that Vietnam wishes to establish practical technology centers where businesses can access experts, test new production processes, and train personnel in real-world environments. This is especially important for supporting industries, semiconductors, and high technology.
The General Secretary and President affirmed that Singapore has been an important partner with valuable experience throughout this journey, and expressed confidence that Vietnam-Singapore cooperation in the fields of AI, semiconductors, smart manufacturing, innovation, and high-tech human resource training will continue to develop strongly in the future.
At the Singapore Railway Test Centre, General Secretary and President To Lam assessed it as a good model for Vietnam to refer to, given that many urban railway (metro) lines are currently in operation or about to be put into operation.
Vietnam could consider training a local engineering workforce capable of independently disassembling, inspecting, and overhauling core technologies; and applying digital transformation to maintenance processes to save costs.
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The Singapore Railway Test Centre is known as a massive engineering complex whose main functions include daily technical inspections, routine maintenance, and especially major overhauls of trains, signaling systems, and core components (such as braking systems, engines, and air conditioning).
The center serves to test new subway trains, signaling systems, automated control technology, operational safety solutions, and technical upgrades for existing subway lines.
Also on the morning of May 30th, General Secretary and President To Lam joined in planting trees at the Singapore Botanic Gardens and laying flowers in commemoration of President Ho Chi Minh at the Asian Civilisations Museum.