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Alternate member of the Party Central Committee and President of Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU), Bui The Duy, is a member of the Vietnamese high-level delegation on this working visit.
As part of the visit, VNU and Tsinghua University co-organized the Vietnam- China Forum on Higher Education Cooperation and Scientific Innovation. Notably, General Secretary and President To Lam addressed the Forum, emphasizing the strategic significance of strengthening cooperation in education, science, and technology between the two countries.
The forum, a key activity taking place during this state visit, is of special importance, thereby reaffirming the strong political commitment of the senior leaders of the two Parties and two States to further deepening the Comprehensive Strategic Cooperative Partnership between Vietnam and China.
In his opening remarks, Tsinghua University Party Secretary Qiu Yong noted that the cooperation between Vietnamese education and research institutions and Tsinghua University has been developing strongly. Many Vietnamese universities, such as Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City, and the National Economics University, have promoted and expanded collaboration with Tsinghua University.
He further stated that the leaders of both countries had emphasized science, technology, and high-quality human resource development as priority areas, providing strategic direction for expanding the bilateral cooperation in the coming period. Cooperation between universities of the two sides also contributes to people-to-people exchanges, enhancing mutual understanding and strengthening ties between the neighboring countries of Vietnam and China.
Addressing the event, General Secretary and President To Lam emphasized that the Communist Party and State of Vietnam always regard the development of relations with China as an objective requirement, a strategic choice, and a top priority in Vietnam’s foreign policy of independence, self-reliance, multilateralization, and diversification.
He affirmed that Vietnam clearly identifies science, technology, innovation, and digital transformation not merely as supporting tools for development, but as the main driving forces for growth. These are considered the foremost breakthroughs and a new impetus for the country’s strong development in the new era.
With this new development mindset, Vietnam places special importance on education and training, as well as the development of high-quality human resources, and attaches great importance to sending a new generation of young people abroad to study, conduct research, and access the world’s leading centers of knowledge and technology.
“I am also very pleased to see that the cooperation between Vietnamese education and research institutions and Tsinghua University has been developing very positively. In 2024 and 2025, many leading Vietnamese universities such as Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City, and the National Economics University, promoted the signing of cooperation agreements and expansion of cooperation with Tsinghua University. The leaders of both sides have emphasized such priority areas as artificial intelligence, semiconductors, science and technology, and high-quality human resource training. These highly appropriate and necessary steps should be further expanded in the coming time,” stated General Secretary and President To Lam.
At the forum, VNU President Bui The Duy stated that in the context of the increasingly stable and deepening Vietnam-China relationship, higher education is not only a highly potential field of cooperation, but also a space where development orientations are realized directly through people, knowledge, technology, and concrete collaborative models. Therefore, from the perspective of universities, the current challenge is not only to expand cooperation, but more importantly, to jointly create new, substantive, and long-term valuable cooperation models for both sides.
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According to VNU President Bui The Duy, universities are undergoing a strong transformation, from institutions that transmit knowledge to institutions that generate development capacity. In particular, the development of an elite education model closely linked to research, technology, and innovation, is an important orientation. Vietnam’s key national universities, including VNU, have the responsibility to take the lead in shaping this model, thereby contributing to the establishment of new development standards for the entire higher education system.
To realize this orientation, VNU President Bui The Duy believed that the development of open innovation spaces, especially those within integrated university towns, would effectively connect education, research, and enterprises, thereby shortening the distance from laboratories to the market.
From a cooperation perspective, VNU President proposed several concrete directions, such as developing long-term joint training and research programs; mutual credit recognition; establishing joint laboratories and research centers; and strengthening university–enterprise linkages to create practical products and real-world values.
Also within the framework of the visit, 17 Vietnamese higher education institutions and 19 Chinese higher education institutions signed a total of 35 cooperation documents and memoranda of understanding, covering various fields, such as human resource training, scientific research cooperation, and exchange of lecturers and students. This marked a new milestone in the development of higher education cooperation between Vietnam and China.
Notably, VNU signed four cooperation agreements with Chinese partners, including Tsinghua University, Fudan University, China Foreign Affairs University, and Guangxi University, contributing to elevating the higher education cooperation between the two countries to a new level.
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