Speaking at the opening of the conference, Major General Dang Hong Trien, General Director of the Vietnam-Russia Tropical Center, emphasized that in the first 6 months of 2025, despite being affected and impacted by the Russia-Ukraine military conflict, agencies and units in the entire center have actively and proactively implemented and completed tasks in all aspects of work.

Lieutenant General Dang Hong Trien, General Director of the Vietnam-Russia Tropical Center, delivered the opening speech at the conference.

The Center has implemented 37 topics and tasks under the Vietnam-Russia Joint Scientific and Technological Research Plan; implemented 95 topics and scientific tasks on the Vietnamese side alone (an increase of 6.74% compared to the first 6 months of 2024). Topics and tasks were comprehensively implemented in all 3 directions: Tropical materials science, tropical ecology, tropical biomedicine, achieving good results. International cooperation and defense diplomacy achieved many important results, including the event of receiving the scientific research ship "Professor Gagarinsky" and the second mobile testing vehicle.

Conference scene.

Along with that, the center drastically implemented administrative reform and digital transformation, effectively serving the leadership and management of all activities; completed the congresses of party cells and grassroots party committees for the 2025-2030 term; organized a summary of 10 years of implementing Directive No. 05-CT/TW of the Politburo on promoting the study and following of Ho Chi Minh's ideology, morality and lifestyle; ensured good logistics-technical and financial work for regular and ad hoc tasks, giving priority to serving scientific and technological tasks and investing in construction works.

In the second half of 2025, the Vietnam-Russia Tropical Center determined to continue to maintain, seriously and effectively carry out tasks in all aspects of work, focusing on implementing the approved Scientific Research Plan; promoting application activities, transferring scientific research results into practice; doing a good job of preparing contents to serve the 36th meeting of the Intergovernmental Coordination Committee on the Vietnam-Russia Tropical Center; successfully organizing the 8th Congress of the Center's Party Committee for the 2025-2030 term.

Leaders of the Vietnam-Russia Tropical Center awarded certificates of merit to groups and individuals with outstanding achievements.

On this occasion, the Vietnam-Russia Tropical Center launched the following emulation movements: "The Army competes in innovation and digital transformation", "Digital education for all" and the peak emulation period "Raise the August red flag - Emulate to win 3 first place"; awarded certificates of merit to collectives and individuals with outstanding achievements in performing tasks in the first 6 months of 2025.

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