President Nguyen Xuan Phuc visits the Vietnam - Russia Tropical Center

16:40 | 11/23/2021

(Bqp.vn) - President Nguyen Xuan Phuc visited and worked with the Vietnam - Russia Tropical Center in Hanoi on November 22.

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc visiting the Vietnam - Russia Tropical Center.

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc and delegates visiting the exhibition area of typical scientific and technological products of the Vietnam - Russia Tropical Center.

According to the report, over the past years, the Vietnam - Russia Tropical Center has achieved many important results in scientific research in the fields of tropical ecology, tropical endurance, biomedicine, and high qualified scientific staff training. In particular, the center has effectively applied advanced and modern technical equipment funded by Russia in COVID-19 prevention and control activities in many localities in Vietnam.

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc speaking at the working session.

Speaking at the working session, President Nguyen Xuan Phuc emphasized that, over more than 30 years of construction and development, the Vietnam - Russia Tropical Center has developed more and more comprehensively and firmly. The research outcomes of the center have contributed to dealing with security problems in both countries, reducing man-made disasters’ impacts, and extending the service life of military equipment and improving occupational health for military personnel in particular working conditions. In particular, in the context of  the complicated development of the COVID-19 pandemic, the center has successfully built a SARS-CoV-2 testing procedure recognized by the Ministry of Health.

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc in a joint a photo with delegates.

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc affirmed that the research results of the Vietnam - Russia Tropical Center have made important contributions to the development of science and technology in general, and science, technology and military techniques in particular, effectively serving military and defence tasks and socio-economic development, so that to meet the interests of the both countries.

Delegates attending the meeting.

He asked the center to closely combine fundamental research with applied research as well as technology application and transfer, while strengthening the use of researching results and developing products with high science-technology contents.

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc planting trees at the Vietnam - Russia Tropical Center.

The center should expand research cooperation, modernizing its infrastructure and technology to meet the demand of science-technology development in the new period, promoting its advantages in directly cooperating with and connecting science-technology and production facilities in Vietnam, Russia and other countries, he added.

At the working session.

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc believed that the Vietnam - Russia Tropical Center would continue to make more achievements in the coming time, contributing to building elite and modern military and further promoting the relationship between Vietnam and Russia.

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