Scientific and technological achievements contribute to socio-economic development

Many results of scientific research and technology application have contributed significantly to the socio-economic development in Vietnam in recent years, which has just been introduced at the ' Exhibition to introduce achievements in socio-economic development. Vietnam and Thang Long - Hanoi festivals celebrate the 1000th anniversary of Thang Long.

The Social Sciences industry introduced and displayed 21 major scientific and social science research works of 17 scientists who received the Ho Chi Minh award announced and published from 2001 to the present; Besides, there are 16 massive scientific studies by hundreds of scientists with 162 titles; More than 200 scientific books specialized in philosophy, history, literature, culture, economics, sociology, archeology, law, language, religion, . In which, must be told to research projects such as the Central Highlands epic (with over 70 episodes, hundreds of thousands of pages of publications). Vietnamese history, Vietnam economic history, Vietnamese folklore collection, Vietnamese folklore collection of ethnic minorities, The collection of poems in Nom, Thac ban Viet Nam, Literature collection Nom, Vietnamese epitaph .

The field of science and technology has many contributions to the socio-economic development of our country, here are some typical achievements.

Agriculture:

The cradle of new rice varieties

Only the Mekong Delta Rice Institute (Mekong Delta) has chosen to create and put into production 114 rice varieties, of which 45 are officially recognized. In addition, dozens of new varieties are expected to be put into trial production in most localities in the region every year. Most of the rice varieties selected by the Institute have a short growth period of 90-100 days, helping farmers in the region to have intensive farming, increasing crops, avoiding floods, increasing productivity and output. The Institute has also promptly chosen to create and release new varieties of rice that are resistant to brown plant hoppers and yellow dwarf and twisted dwarf diseases that have met the needs of production and minimize the damage caused by epidemics. out. Currently, the area of ​​using rice varieties selected by the Mekong Delta Rice Institute has reached over 2.4 million hectares, accounting for 34.87% of the country's rice seed area.

In addition, the Institute has also built 11 accredited technical processes at the national level, including 5 technical processes for rice cultivation, 2 techniques for upland crop cultivation with rice and 4 rules. Plant pest control. Technological advances developed by the Institute are an important basis for building technical solutions 'Three reductions, three increases' being widely applied by rice farmers .

Medicine

Research and successfully produce preventive vaccines for children

Vaccine ' Rotavin-M1 ' is a live vaccine that reduces the virulence and drinks diarrhea for children under 5 years old, produced from rota virus strain G1P on Vero cells at GMP-certified production facilities of the Center. Research, Production Vaccines and Medical Biological Products - Ministry of Health.

G1P rota virus strain was researched and produced in GLP-qualified laboratory of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of CDC-Atlanta-USA and the laboratory of the Center for Research and Production of Vaccines and Births. products - Ministry of Health. This strain has been tested for quality according to the guidelines of the World Health Organization at the standard laboratory of the Center for Research, Production of Vaccines and Medical Biology - Ministry of Health. G1P has been approved by the National Institute of Vaccine and Medical Biology for vaccine production in 2007.

Success in human organ transplantation

Following the success of kidney transplantation, liver transplantation of Vietnamese scientists, Military Medical Academy is conquering new heights in a very difficult field - heart transplantation. In November 2007, the Ministry of Science and Technology approved a state-level independent project: " Researching on some problems of experimental heart transplantation in animals to proceed to human heart transplant in Vietnam ", DTL.2007 code G / 22, by Assoc. Dang Ngoc Hung (Military Medical Academy) is the director.

Based on the success of kidney transplantation, liver transplantation and heart transplantation on experiment, in July 2009, the Ministry of Science and Technology approved the State-level project: ' Research on the implementation of heart transplantation in humans taken from brain-dead people ' the program "Research and application and technology development to protect, care and improve public health" by GS. Dr. Nguyen Tien Binh (Director of Military Medical Academy) is the director.

On June 17, 2010, at 103 Hospital, Military Medical Academy, Ministry of Defense successfully performed the first human heart transplant in Vietnam for Bui Van Nam patient 48 years old, home: Village 4 , team 4, Truc Thai commune, Truc Ninh district, Nam Dinh province with diagnosis: relaxable cardiomyopathy, total heart failure degree IV.

Until now, after nearly 4 months of heart transplant surgery, Mr. Nam's health condition has progressed well, self-mobilized, normal activities.

High-tech mechanical equipment

Production and application of new technologies at Son La Hydropower Plant

Son La hydropower plant is the largest hydropower project in Southeast Asia, including 6 units, installed capacity of 2400MW, annual average electricity output of 9.4kWh. This is the project with the largest workload ever undertaken by Vietnam.

Many new and advanced technologies and solutions have been successfully mastered and applied by Vietnamese consulting, design, equipment manufacturing and construction units.

Science and technology of Vietnam has made an important contribution in bringing the project into operation 2 years earlier than expected, making use of domestic materials, lowering product costs, benefiting the country over 24,000 billions dong. Some technologies include: processing and producing fly ash from Song Da 12-Cao Cuong Joint Stock Company with the Institute of Materials Science; Application of roller compacted concrete technology in construction; Design and manufacture of hydro-mechanical equipment (domestic units take over 27,000 tons, accounting for 62% of super-sized, super-weight, large-load, high-pressure, hydraulic-controlled systems) with loading capacity up to 700 tons / valve gate .); Production of large lifting and lowering equipment (1120 tons of machine cranes, 350 tons of cranial cranes, 100-600 tons of lifting cranes), with a localization rate of over 90% with lower cost (equal to 50% of the price of equivalent European products and 75% of Chinese product prices); These are products of Quang Trung Mechanical Enterprise, produced with the support of the Ministry of Science and Technology.

Manufacture electronic mechanical products made in Vietnam

The Institute of Industrial Machines and Instruments (IMI) has built a foundation to develop a new mechanical industry (mechatronics), competitive and highly economic. IMI has created a combination of mechanics with automation, electronics, information technology, to create new mechanical products with high flexibility (mechatronics products), thereby enhancing the ability competition of products, dominating domestic market share, creating great value-added for products, bringing economic efficiency. 51 new mechanical products of IMI belong to the group of 'Research, design and manufacture of industrial electronic product clusters' were awarded Ho Chi Minh Prize in 2005.

The Institute's high-tech products dominate most of the domestic market, 30-40% lower than imported ones, helping to save tens of millions of dollars annually by replacing imported goods.

In the last 10 years, the Institute's scientific staff has researched, designed and successfully fabricated the mechatronic product cluster, with more than 100 high-tech products, widely used in industrial production. Across all parts of the country, it brings a value of 1,000 billion VND per year.

Digital control machine tools (CNC) manufactured by Vietnam

Since the 90s of the last century, the State has provided funding for many projects and research projects to manufacture CNC machines. Research and production facilities in Hanoi such as IMI Institute, Hanoi Mechanical Company (Hameco) have made initial successes such as manufacturing 3-axis CNC milling machines and CNC inclined lathes. The above results only stop at the test level due to domestic conditions at that time still faced many difficulties, so it was not commercially available. In 2000, there were a series of new projects and projects that had initial results in commercializing CNC machine products in the domestic market.

With the role of a partner to directly implement or preside over the above-mentioned projects and projects, Bach Khoa Electronics and Electronics Co., Ltd. (BKMech) has contributed to bringing products to the market and strengthening the research and development model. products, build a network of auxiliary suppliers in the country and abroad. The company has successfully applied a number of new studies in machine tool design such as structural optimization techniques that reduce volume by up to 30% while maintaining the same natural hardness and frequency characteristics. FEA testing techniques such as hardness testing, kinetic testing, heat change testing .

Thanks to the localization details in the country, CNC machine products have a cost reduction of up to 30% compared to imported products.

Atomic energy

Application of radioactive isotopes for economic and social purposes

Vietnam Atomic Energy Institute, with the advantage of modern equipment and a team of highly qualified scientific staff, is the leading agency in the research and application of radioactive isotopes for economic development - communes Assembly

In health, the Institute has produced and provided most of the important necessary radioactive pharmaceuticals of nuclear medicine such as I-131, Tc-99m, P-32 . contributing to maintaining and developing the medical network. Nuclear learning across the country.

In the oil and gas industry, the Institute has succeeded in studying the movement of injection water in oil fields to control mining technology, improve the exploitation coefficient, reduce production costs, save the volume of water pumped into. and improve the oil pushing coefficient.

In the study of environment, geology, hydrology, the Institute has succeeded in applying the marked radioactive isotope to study the process of soil erosion, the process of seeping through hydropower dams, dykes, too process of sedimentation of lake beds and landscape areas. The research works of sediment at Nam Trieu and Hai Phong ports have special significance for the operation of these ports.

Information Technology

Earthquake risk assessment software

GIS technology was applied to build software tools called ArcRisk for assessing earthquake risk and estimating damage in urban areas. In addition to its function as a powerful tool in assessing earthquake risk and risks with GIS technology, ArcRisk is also designed to be used as a decision support system in prevention work. Rescuing and mitigating earthquake damage caused to urban communities in Vietnam.

For each earthquake scenario, ArcRisk automatically calculates and displays the results for the study area, setting up the vibration vibration map showing the maximum background acceleration distribution, thematic maps showing potential the ability to destroy the ground due to earthquake and background liquefaction caused by the earthquake and the map of housing damage caused by earthquakes in 4 different levels of damage: light, medium, heavy, completely.

Products of the Institute of Geophysics - Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology.

Automation of ship management, monitoring and control systems

The system of automation to manage, monitor and control vessels of maritime operating fleets allows to manage almost simultaneously the mobile (and static) situation of subordinate vessels; units in and out, number of crews, ships, number of ships; indicates the situation of operating in a large space on the digital chart of the position, tasks and operational status of each ship; cruise ships; Flexible link distribution and information exchange between ships and ship clusters under .

This is a system using modern technology, which has not been fully studied in Vietnam, applied in the management, supervision and control of ships and ship crews operating on the sea of ​​Border Guard forces, Marine police, ship clusters to exploit marine economy and support the management of marine exploitation and disaster prevention and rescue.

The system is a product of the Institute of Electronics - Military Science and Technology Institute, Ministry of Defense.

Satellite technology

Pico-Dragon micro-satellite

As a result of the topic 'Simulation, design and manufacturing of pico satellites' at the Institute of Science and Technology of Vietnam and the first pico satellite by Vietnam to research, design and manufacture by itself. precision force and precision mechanics - Institute of Space Technology - Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology).

Satellite can be applied in areas such as: communication and receiving control commands from ground stations; Send the collected data from satellites to the earth; Take photos of the earth with low resolution; Send image data to the ground station.

The ultra-small Pico-Dragon satellite is primarily aimed at training young staff, from facilitating learning, studying processes from design, manufacture to testing, to orbit and Finally, satellite control is available.

The research and manufacture of micro-satellites Pico-Dragon aims to build a team of engineers to master the process and technology for manufacturing micro satellites, serving the development of satellite technology in Vietnam. Future.

Material

Product cluster of magnetic materials

Rare earth magnet products Nd-Fe-B have super strong magnetic properties, far beyond normal magnets, can be compared with permanent magnets in the world. The product is used in manufacturing machines for recruiting titanium mineral sand, with a cost of only 20-25% compared to imported technology. Rare earth Nd-Fe-B magnet products are also applied effectively in some other activities such as iron out of raw materials for ceramic industry, exploiting and processing raw materials for high-grade glass industry and objects. High quality fireproof material.

Since 2002, many businesses have used Nd-Fe-B rare earth magnets in production, including Ha Tinh Minerals and Trading Company, which helps to save costs, power and increase value. Output products compared to old technology. The company has saved VND 1.8 billion per year in electricity costs and increased the value of output products compared to other businesses.

Products from Nd-Fe-B materials have been researched and applied by Dr. Nguyen Hong Quyen, Institute of Materials Science (Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology) and colleagues.