Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc (centre) and Minister of Information and Communications Truong Minh Tuan (first, left) present the first award in the field of IT (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – The VietnamTalent Awards 2017 were presented in Hanoi on November 16, honouring personswith practical inventions and initiatives.
The awards honoured people in the fields ofinformation technology, science-technology, health care – pharmacy,environment, and talent encouragement.
Notably, up to 289 IT-related entries weresubmitted to this year’s contest. The top winner in IT was a team from the DaNang-based Duy Tan University who created a programme that applies 3D virtualreality technology to simulate the human body for teaching, learning andresearching activities in health sciences.
The Vietnam Talent Awards 2017, the 13th editionso far, were initiated by the Vietnam Association for Promoting Education.Since its launch, the awards have received entries from thousands of IT talentsand hundreds of scientists, from octogenarians to primary students.
Addressing the awards ceremony, Prime MinisterNguyen Xuan Phuc affirmed that the prosperity of each nation is closelyassociated with talents. He noted the awards have encouraged learning andcreativity among people of all ages.
He congratulated the award winners, describingthem as prime examples of the devotion, creativity and wisdom of Vietnamesepeople.
Mentioning national development amid Industry4.0, PM Phuc said the country will grow if it makes use of developmentopportunities, or else it will lag behind. It’s time for young people to starttheir careers and intelligentsia to join hands to innovate for a bright future.
PM Phuc added that a learning and creativesociety is an ideal environment for the development of Vietnam and also animportant driving force for building a growth-enabling and action-orientedGovernment.
The Vietnam Talent Awards are sponsored by theMinistry of Information and Communications, the Ministry of Science andTechnology, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Education and Training, theVietnam Academy of Science and Technology, and the Vietnam Union of Science andTechnology Associations.-VNA
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Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc (centre) and Minister of Information and Communications Truong Minh Tuan (first, left) present the first award in the field of IT (Photo: VNA) 
