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Construction of barge-like drainage dam on a river section
in Bac Lieu Province
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The Hydraulic Construction
Institute (HCI) under the Vietnam Academy for Water Resources has switched to
self-reliance mode of operation since 2009 as stipulated in Government Decree
115. Since then, HCI has positively changed. It has provided consultancy for
seven out of 13 construction projects for culverts to prevent tidal flooding in
Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) with a total investment of nearly VND2000 billion. It
has also been assigned by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to
design 63 barge-like drainage dams as part of the project for demarcating salty
and sweet water on river sections in Soc Trang, Bac Lieu and Can Tho provinces.
In addition, HCI has managed to develop jet-grouting technology which can be
applied in different areas, contributing to solving issues with dykes, dams and
other technical complexes. HCI's annual revenue from contractual technology
transfer reached about VND10 billion.
HCI's research results have been
applied in many of the country's large irrigation works in Binh Dinh, Thanh
Hoa, Quang Ngai, and Ninh Thuan provinces. In particular, HCI has led the EPC
Contractor Consortium to carry out a VND290 billion drainage dam project to
control tidal flood in the Nhieu Loc-Thi Nghe Canal and provided consultancy
for South Dinh Vu 14km sea dike project.
According to Nguyen Quoc Dung,
HCI is considered a spearhead organization of the Vietnam Academy for Water
Resources, which has resulted from HCI's continual efforts in recent years in
designing and implementing hydraulic constructions in provinces and cities
nationwide.
The Decree 115 aims to provide
more open mechanisms and policies for sci-tech organizations. With autonomy in
finance, state-run sci-tech organizations are entitled to production, trade and
all related privileges as common enterprises. However, the decree
implementation process has been slowed down by some obstacles. For example,
although the decree allows scientists and sci-tech organizations to borrow
money to do research projects and pilot trial production, to access
preferential bank loans, to set up unit investment trusts, and to hire foreign
experts, there is no specific legal document on these rights. As a matter of
fact, sci-tech organizations find it difficult to operate.
"HCI, a state-run unit,
cannot find a direct access to bank loans and can only receive loans on
mortgage of their staff's land or house ownership certificates at banks.
However, this approach is very inconvenient for us as banks consider these
mortgages as low collateral valuable, high volatile and difficult to calculate
interest rate. In the past three years, we have managed to pool up VND5 billion
to invest in renewal of machinery and equipment," said Nguyen Quoc Dung.
Therefore, it is necessary to
have a legal framework to fully support the rights and obligations of sci-tech
organizations as stipulated in Decree 115, as well as suitable operational
guidance and mechanism. If these organizations are financially supported and
able to involve in national research programs, their revenues will double or
triple in the future.
Nguyen Quoc Dung added that
"In the Republic of Korea (RoK), they have developed "Incubator
Systems" since 2000 with the aim of supporting local scientists and
sci-tech organizations involved with the application of their scientific
achievements in production. When a production scheme for a sci-tech product
gets approved, it will be funded withUS$100,000 in financial support and allocated
land for setting up facilities. We hardly dare dream of such a mechanism in
Vietnam and just hope that a legal framework for Decree 115 will soon come into
being.”.
Quynh Nga
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