At the meeting, Mr. Vuong Dinh Hue, Secretary of the Municipality Party Committee emphasized that science and technology development always plays a particularly important role for Hanoi. In the development process, Hanoi has set goals for each stage, including from now to 2025 and vision for development in the 2030-2045 period. Also according to the Secretary, Hanoi is focusing on building an electronic government and a smart city. Especially, the recent impacts of COVID-19 pandemic once again proved the importance of developing online public services.

Representing the business sector, Mr. Nguyen Trung Chinh (Chairman of BOD/CEO of CMC Corporation) made proposals to build and develop e-Government with Hanoi People's Committee, including services of data center, CMC Cloud, land management, ICT applications, etc.

Mr. Nguyen Trung Chinh proposes to build and develop e-Government with Hanoi People's Committee

Also at the meeting, Hanoi and ICT corporations, including CMC, signed a cooperation agreement with the content of:

1. Synchronously bringing the wires and cables for telecommunication system as well as medium and low voltage power lines at streets underground, in line with the city's socioeconomic development planning in the 2020-2025 period; prioritizing the common use and sharing of telecommunications infrastructure, combining with going underground, embellishing and building a modern and civilized capital
2. Deploying infrastructure and services for 5G network in Hanoi.