Startled garbage technology

Not startled when recently, the Ministry of Science and Technology proposed the ministries and localities to direct their subordinate units to instruct Vietnamese enterprises to operate in their localities when signing contracts and purchasing equipment to be explored. carefully to avoid the import of outdated and obsolete lines and technologies from 2,255 enterprises (enterprises) that China announced to eliminate.

This is not the first time, these shocking numbers are announced. Looking back at the statistics of the General Department of Customs, the import turnover of equipment and spare parts from the Chinese market has increased continuously in recent years.

Technology garbage.

In the first half of 2011, import turnover of this group of goods soared to nearly 1.6 billion USD compared to over 1 billion USD in the first half of 2010. In particular, accounting for a large number of machinery and equipment in the textile industry, leather shoes, packaging machines, electrical equipment, machine tools . According to the report of export and trade deficit analysis, up to 75% of domestic enterprises import machinery and equipment originating from China.

According to a report by the Environmental Police Department, millions of tons of imports are imported into Vietnam every year, through seaports and border gates in the North and Southwest, many of which are obsolete machinery and equipment that are old or contain hazardous substances many times higher than Vietnamese standards allow.

People still mention the bitter lesson from the technology import of cement industry. In the 1990s, the investment movement to develop blast furnace cement technology took place massively. In only 7-8 years, localities have massively imported more than 50 Chinese blast furnace cement production lines, then soon after, by 2004, many factories were required by the Government. death must be due to outdated technology, energy wastage, environmental pollution and, more importantly, no economic efficiency.

Recycle garbage technology.

Currently, Vietnam has a comprehensive legal framework on technology appraisal regulations for relatively complete investment projects such as Intellectual Property Law, Technology Transfer Law, High Technology Law . That is, an investment project before licensing is required through technology appraisal. This evaluation will be chaired by Department of Planning and Investment. For high-tech projects, it will be through a scientific council to determine if the technology is high.

However, it is a fact that if projects are not in "sensitive" areas , technology appraisal is not mandatory.

Therefore, there should be more detailed and complete regulations for investment projects to what extent, how much capital, what activities in the field . will have to appraise technology. If this regulation is more detailed, it will help the competent authority to issue the investment certificate with a better basis to block the technology flow which is pouring into Vietnam. Besides, it is also necessary to raise sanctions for acts of intentionally importing old technologies.