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First National Seminar on SI Action Plan
  On 5-Sep 2008, in Hanoi, VCCI and JETRO
co-hosted the First National Seminar on Action Plan for Developing
Supporting Industries in VN. Its purpose was to launch the work of
designing concrete action plans for supporting industry promotion, which
would implement the SI master plan approved in 2007, through bilateral
cooperation between Vietnam and Japan. The seminar was opened by VCCI
Chairman Vu Tien Loc and Japanese Ambassador Mitsuo Sakaba. Key note
speakers were MOIT Minister Vu Huy Hoang, VDF co-leader Kenichi Ohno,
and Toyota VN President Nobuhiko Murakami. Three panel disccussions
followed to cover human resources, FDI role, and finance and firm
consultancy. The Japanese side presented bilateral vision and action
plan proposals, showed concrete data to highlight competitiveness
issues. VDF is supporting this bilateral effort through academic inputs
and other assistance.
VDF assistance for supporting industry promotion
Since Spring 2008, VDF has worked closely with
Japanese embassy, VCCI, JETRO, JICA and other related bodies to
formulate a new VN-Japan project to strengthen VN's supporting
industries. VDF has provided initial ideas, analysis and international
experience, drafting of key documents, and logistic and translation
support. This project will build bilateral strategic partnership for
monozukuri (skilled manufacturing) with special emphasis on supporting
industries (parts and components). It will be implemented under the
VN-JP Joint Initiative Phase 3. Much of the work remains preparatory and
confidential at present. The VCCI-JETRO conference will officially
launch this project in early September.
Symposium on education at Aichi Univ. of Education
From 4th to 6th July 2008, Ms. Nguyen Thi
Xuan Thuy, a VDF research participated in an international symposium on
technological education at Aichi Universities of Education, Japan. The
symposium included panel sessions, oral sessions, and poster sessions.
Ms. Thuy presented at an oral session, introduced Vietnam's
education and TVET system, then proposed measures to strengthen university-industry linkage for pushing up FDI-led industrialization in Vietnam.
The symposium welcomed about 100 participants from 27 countries. Many lessons
and experiences on technological education were shared. As a keynote
speaker, Prof. William E. Dugger from Virginia Tech. University
clarified the difference in science and technology, and suggested
contents should be taught in the study of technology to ensure that all
people are technologically literate in the future. At an oral session,
Prof. Ikeda Norihiro from Toyohashi Univ. of Technology (TUT), Japan
shared experiences in promoting U-I linkage in Sri Lanka, a project
implemented by TUT in the framework of MEXT International Cooperation
Initiative.
Slides
(PDF374KB).
Workshop on maternal and child health
On July 1, Prof. Megumi Haruna, Department of Midwifery
and Women’s Health, Division of Health Sciences and Nursing, Graduate
School of Medicine,
Univ.
of
Tokyo
presented a research on maternal and child health in
Japan. Ms. Erika Ota,
a PhD student
at Pasteur Institute in Nha Trang province, followed by a presentation on "Pre-pregnancy body mass
index and pregnancy weight gain: Associations with perinatal outcome".
Attendants were doctors and professors from
Institute
of
Sociology,
Hanoi
Central
Maternity
Hospital
and Vietnam National Hospital of Pediatrics. According to Prof. Haruna,
the rate of breastfeeding in
Japan
is much lower than
Vietnam. Although the pregnant mothers in
Japan
have more conditions to take care their health, the risk of low birth
weight in
Japan
is increasing. Beside this risk, there are many other perinatal risks
like macrosomia, preterm delivery, pregnant induced hypertension,
hemorrhage. HarunaSlides
(PDF2.7MB).
OtaSlides (PPSX554KB).
Vietnam - Japan monozukuri partnership for SI
On
24 June 2008, Prof. Kenichi Ohno, Co-director of VDF presented VDF
proposal for monozukuri partnership between the two countries to promote
supporting industry (SI) in Vietnam. Monuzukuri is a native Japanese
term, can be understood as Japanese style skill-based manufacturing. The
monozukuri partnership aims to improve Vietnam's industrial capability,
to pursuer win-win and long-term relationship. By establishing such
partnership, the two countries will jointly produce high skill products
through proper division of labor, where Japan will perform capital &
knowledge-intensive monozukuri processes and Vietnam will perform
labor-intensive monozukuri processes. The Japanese Ambassador Mitsuo
Sakaba, experts from MOIT, MPI (ASMED, TAC Hanoi), VCCI, JICA, JETRO,
VDF etc. participated in the workshop. Mr. Sakaba strengthened an
important role of SI in solving Vietnam's long-term problems (such as
Vietnam +1), which seem not be paid enough attention from top leaders.
The participants raised questions on how to realize and what were
criteria for the successful monozukuri partnership. A mechanism to
effectively receive Japanese retired engineers in large-scale was also
discussed to ensure right experts to be sent to right firms.
SlidesE
(PDF188KB),
SlideV
(PDF636KB).
Development of supporting industry in Vietnam
On
12 June 2008, VDF organized a workshop on Vietnam's supporting industry.
Mr. Nguyen Anh Nam, an expert of Institute for Industrial Policy and
Strategy (MOIT) explained the contents of the supporting industry master
plan approved by the MOI (MOIT now) in July 2007. The workshop was
attended by the Japanese Ambassador Mitsuo Sakaba, experts from JETRO,
MOIT, MPI, and TAC Hanoi. The Ambassador raised a question on how the
master plan has been implemented after its approval. In fact, measures
proposed in the master plan are too general, so not many actions have
been realized, excepting two projects on HRD in manufacturing introduced
in HCMC and Thai Nguyen province. However, there is overlapping in
implementation of some actions, for example, SI databases are produced
by MOIT, VCCI, TAC, etc. Mr. Sakaba's idea is that to promote supporting
industry, it is essential for Vietnam to improve local manufacturing
capability prior to strengthening linkages between FDI and local firms.
SlidesE
(PDF268KB),
SlidesV
(PDF627KB)
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