Decision 23/2026/QD-TTg list of high technologies prioritized for development investment and hi-tech products eligible for development promotion

DECISION

Promulgating the List of high technologies prioritised for development investment and the List of hi-tech products promoted for development^[1]

Pursuant to Law No. 63/2025/QH15 on Organisation of the Government;

Pursuant to Law No. 72/2025/QH15 on Organisation of Local Administration;

Pursuant to Law No. 133/2025/QH15 on High Technology;

At the proposal of the Minister of Science and Technology in Report No. 75/TTr-BKHCN of April 29, 2026;

The Prime Minister promulgates the Decision promulgating the List of high technologies prioritised for development investment and the List of hi-tech products promoted for development.

Article 1. To promulgate together with this Decision the List of high technologies prioritised for development investment and the List of hi-tech products promoted for development.

Article 2. Based on the practical socio-economic development and written directives issued by competent authorities, the Ministry of Science and Technology shall assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with related ministries and agencies in, conducting periodical review and evaluation for submission to the Prime Minister for promulgation and updating of the List of high technologies prioritised for development investment and the List of hi-tech products promoted for development.

Article 3. This Decision takes effect on July 1, 2026, and replaces the Prime Minister’s Decision No. 38/2020/QD-TTg of December 30, 2020, promulgating the List of high technologies prioritised for development investment and the List of hi-tech products promoted for development.

Organisations that have been issued certificates or documents on recognition of high technologies or hi-tech products on the Lists promulgated together with the Prime Minister’s Decision No. 38/2020/QD-TTg of December 30, 2020, shall continue to comply with such Lists until their expiry date stated in the issued certificates or documents.

Article 4. Ministers, heads of ministerial-level agencies, and chairpersons of provincial-level People’s Committees shall implement this Decision.-

For the Prime Minister
Deputy Prime Minister
HO QUOC DUNG

Appendix I

LIST OF HIGH TECHNOLOGIES PRIORITISED FOR DEVELOPMENT INVESTMENT

(To the Prime Minister’s Decision No. 23/2026/QD-TTg of May 15, 2026)

1. Artificial intelligence (AI) technology.

2. Big data and data analytics technologies.

3. Cloud computing, edge computing, distributed computing, and high-performance computing technologies.

4. Internet of Things (IoT) technology.

5. Blockchain technology.

6. Quantum technology.

7. Next-generation digital infrastructure technologies, including 5G, 5G-advanced (5G-A), 6G, new-generation passive optical networks (NG-PON), software-defined networking/network functions virtualisation (SDN/NFV), software-defined radio access networks (SD-RAN), software-defined wide-area networks (SD-WAN), low-power wide-area networks (LPWAN), IO-Link wireless, new-generation optical transport networks, and non-terrestrial networks (NTN).

8. Technologies for the design, manufacturing and integration of equipment, software, platforms, and digital solutions serving digital government, digital economy, and digital society.

9. Digital twin; extended reality (XR); and building information modelling (BIM) technologies.

10. Geoinformatics technology.

11. Advanced cybersecurity and information confidentiality technologies.

12. Intelligent human-machine interaction technologies in industry, transport, health, and training.

13. Technologies for collection, processing and utilisation of telecommunications and remote-sensing data.

14. Technologies for designing, manufacturing, packaging and testing of electronic components, integrated electronic circuits, flexible electronic circuits, semiconductor chips, and semiconductor materials.

15. Technologies for development of operating systems for embedded computers and new-generation mobile devices.

16. Technologies for designing and manufacturing of high-resolution displays and smart displays.

17. Technologies for designing and manufacturing of smart antennas and multiband phased array antennas.

18. Flexible manufacturing system (FMS), computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM), and intelligent manufacturing system (IMS) technologies.

19. Technologies for designing, manufacturing and integration of advanced robots; autonomous equipment and vehicles.

20. Technologies for designing and manufacturing of next-generation computer numerical control (CNC) machine-tools.

21. Three-dimensional (3D) printing/additive manufacturing technologies.

22. Non-traditional precision manufacturing technologies.

23. Advanced metal forming technologies for making billets of mechanical engineering products.

24. Welding and surface-treatment technologies for use in special environments.

25. Technologies for designing and manufacturing of control devices and high-performance static converters, and advanced drive systems.

26. Technologies for monitoring, management, control, positioning, navigation, sensing, and environmental perception of robots, and autonomous equipment and vehicles.

27. Technologies for diagnosing the operating status of industrial production lines and machinery.

28. Technologies for designing and manufacturing of advanced moulds.

29. Technologies for designing and manufacturing of advanced agricultural machinery serving smart agriculture and precision agriculture.

30. Technologies for designing and manufacturing of smart systems and equipment for STEAM education and training.

31. Technologies for designing and manufacturing of advanced measurement equipment and devices.

32. Technologies for designing and manufacturing of micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) and nano-electro-mechanical systems (NEMS).

33. Space, satellite, and low-earth-orbit small-satellite constellation technologies; satellite telemetry, tracking and control technologies; and propulsion technologies for small satellites.

34. Technologies for designing and manufacturing of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).

35. Technologies for designing and manufacturing of rolling stock, rails, turnouts, power-supply systems, and special-use accessories for high-speed railways; and railway communication and signalling technologies.

36. Renewable-energy and clean-energy technologies; advanced energy storage technologies.

37. Smart-grid and high-voltage direct-current power transmission technologies.

38. New-energy vehicle powertrain technologies.

39. Technologies for emissions measurement and carbon capture, storage and utilisation.

40. Advanced technologies for assessing strategic mineral reserves.

41. Technologies for treatment and recycling of solid wastes in electrics and electronics; radioactive-waste treatment technologies; and polymer treatment and recycling technologies.

42. Real-time AI-integrated technologies for monitoring, forecasting and early warning of natural disasters.

43. Technologies for designing and manufacturing of jack-up drilling rigs and semi-submersible drilling rigs; and new-generation drilling and exploration technologies in the oil and gas sector.

44. Technologies for separation and refining of high-purity rare earths and rare-earth materials.

45. Technologies for designing and manufacturing of high-performance electrical equipment, including transformers of 500 kV or higher voltage, gas insulated transformers, and digital transformers.

46. Technologies for designing and manufacturing of mechanical components for offshore wind turbines, including blades, main shafts, transmission gears, and large-sized bearings; and technologies for offshore installation and operation.

47. Technologies for designing and manufacturing of advanced sensors for automated environmental-pollution monitoring systems.

48. OMICS technologies, including genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics and metagenomics.

49. Synthetic biology and molecular biology technologies.

50. Bioinformatics technologies.

51. New-generation microbiology technologies.

52. Tissue, embryo and cell technologies in health, pharmaceutical and agricultural sectors.

53. Gene-editing and molecular-marker technologies in medicine and for selection and development of plant varieties, livestock breeds, and aquatic species.

54. Molecular analysis and diagnosis technologies.

55. Technologies for designing and manufacturing of smart systems and equipment for medical diagnosis, monitoring and treatment and human healthcare.

56. Advanced technologies for growing sustainable and resilient crops.

57. Advanced and modern pharmaceutical formulation and manufacturing technologies.

58. Technologies for designing and manufacturing of organoid and tumor models for drug testing and biomedical research.

59. Technologies for production of new-generation vaccines for humans and animals, and biologicals in health, agriculture and environment sectors.

60. Technologies for production of recombinant proteins, enzymes, and monoclonal antibodies in health and agriculture.

61. Technologies for industrial-scale extraction, purification and formulation of pure natural active ingredients.

62. Technologies for production of nanoproducts and nanopesticides in agriculture.

63. Technologies for production of neurological rehabilitation equipment applying neurotechnologies.

64. Technologies for production of antibacterial and antiviral materials for medical use.

65. Advanced materials technology.

66. Physical vapor deposition (PVD) and chemical vapor deposition (CVD) technologies.

67. Photonics technologies and advanced optical systems.

68. Nuclear and radiation technologies in health, industrial, agricultural, and natural resources and environmental sectors.

69. Microwave and plasma technologies in health, environmental treatment and food production sectors.

70. Hydroacoustic technologies serving marine economic development.

Appendix II

LIST OF HI-TECH PRODUCTS PROMOTED FOR DEVELOPMENT

(To the Prime Minister’s Decision No. 23/2026/QD-TTg of May 15, 2026)

1. Systems, equipment and software for AI-based and data-driven identification, analysis, forecasting and control.

2. Platforms supporting AI research, development and application; virtual laboratory systems and AI-integrated digital simulation systems.

3. Equipment, software, solutions and services for system integration, cloud computing, edge computing, distributed computing, and high-performance computing.

4. Equipment, software, solutions and technology services based on blockchain platforms.

5. Software for personalising learning pathways based on big data.

6. Equipment, modules, and software for next-generation networks, including 5G, 5G-advanced (5G-A), 6G, new-generation passive optical networks (NG-PON), software-defined networking/network functions virtualisation (SDN/NFV), software-defined radio access networks (SD-RAN), software-defined wide-area networks (SD-WAN), low-power wide-area networks (LPWAN), IO-Link wireless, new-generation optical transport networks, and non-terrestrial networks (NTN).

7. Smart terminals for next-generation networks.

8. Smart antennas and multiband phased array antennas.

9. Platforms for processing and analysing telecommunications and remote-sensing data and providing related products and services; satellite image analysis systems.

10. Equipment, software, platforms and digital solutions serving digital government, digital economy and digital society.

11. Digital-twin systems for cities; transport and energy infrastructure; digital infrastructure; and industrial parks, factories and smart devices.

12. Extended reality equipment, software, solutions and services.

13. IoT equipment, software, platforms, solutions and services.

14. Building information modelling (BIM).

15. Geographic information systems (GIS) for management of hydrometeorological databases, forecasting of disasters, and environmental monitoring.

16. Advanced systems, equipment, software, solutions and services for ensuring cybersecurity and information confidentiality.

17. Software and equipment of new-generation intelligent cybersecurity platforms.

18. The national decentralised electronic identification system.

19. Automated designing and testing software; electronic components, integrated electronic circuits, multifunctional integrated circuits, flexible electronic circuits, semiconductor chips, and semiconductor materials.

20. High-resolution displays and smart displays.

21. Flexible manufacturing systems (FMS), computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM) systems, and intelligent manufacturing systems (IMS).

22. New-generation computer numerical control (CNC) machine-tools.

23. Equipment, products, and solutions for 3D printing and additive manufacturing.

24. Non-traditional precision manufacturing equipment.

25. Advanced metal forming lines and equipment for making billets of mechanical engineering products.

26. Welding and surface-treatment equipment and solutions for use in special environments.

27. Advanced moulds with high technical features, precision and quality.

28. Advanced food processing and preservation equipment systems.

29. Advanced agricultural machinery serving smart farming and precision agriculture.

30. Collaborative robots, surgical robots, and wearables for labour support; autonomous vehicles and autonomous equipment fitted with robotic manipulators; AI-integrated humanoid robots.

31. Autonomous mobile robots; software and systems for monitoring, management, control, positioning, and navigation; and environmental sensing and perception of autonomous mobile robots.

32. Intelligent human-machine interaction systems based on gesture control and voice commands.

33. Software, methods and systems for intelligent human-machine interaction simulation in industry, transport, health and training.

34. Control devices, high-power electronic converters, and advanced drive systems.

35. Non-contact, non-destructive and light-scattering measurement equipment.

36. Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS).

37. Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) equipment, inertial navigation system-based measurement equipment (INS), and high-precision electronic compasses.

38. Advanced systems, equipment and solutions for diagnosing the operating condition of industrial manufacturing lines and machinery.

39. Smart systems and equipment for STEAM education and training.

40. Satellites, small-satellite constellations, terrestrial equipment and stations, satellite user terminals, and propulsion systems for small satellites.

41. Unmanned aerial vehicles, swarming unmanned aerial vehicles, and autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles.

42. Software and systems for monitoring, management, control, positioning, and navigation; and sensing and environmental perception of unmanned aerial vehicles, swarming unmanned aerial vehicles and autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles.

43. Autonomous equipment for deep-ocean and seabed exploration; software and systems for monitoring, management, control, positioning and navigation, and sensing and environmental perception of autonomous deep-ocean and seabed exploration equipment.

44. Rolling stock, rails, railway switches, special-use materials, power-supply systems, and special-use accessories for high-speed railways.

45. Railway signalling and control systems, including train control, automatic train protection, supervision and operation, electronic interlocking, and train and obstacle detection.

46. Railway power-supply systems and equipment for protecting railway power-supply systems.

47. 5G radio communication systems/future railway mobile communication systems (FRMCS) for railways.

48. Electric traction power-supply systems operating at 1,500 VDC, 3,000 VDC, and 25 kVAC.

49. New-energy and environmentally friendly means of transport.

50. Renewable-energy power-generation systems and advanced energy-storage systems; grid-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS).

51. Systems for production, storage, transport and distribution of hydrogen and biofuels.

52. High-efficiency photovoltaic panels.

53. High-performance lithium batteries, flow batteries, non-lithium batteries, hydrogen fuel batteries, hydrogen-based power-generation systems, and supercapacitor energy-storage systems.

54. Carbon/glass-fibre composite wind-turbine blades for large turbines; high-precision gearboxes and gears for large wind turbines; and special-use large-scale bearing systems for wind-power generation.

55. Digital protection equipment and power quality control equipment in electrical systems.

56. High-efficiency industrial waste heat recovery equipment for power generation.

57. Equipment for measuring emissions and carbon capture, storage and utilisation.

58. Systems, equipment and solutions for treating solid wastes in the electrical and electronics sectors; treating radioactive wastes; and treating and recycling polymers.

59. Real-time AI-integrated systems, equipment and solutions for monitoring, forecasting and early warning of natural disasters.

60. Jack-up drilling rigs and semi-submersible drilling rigs in the oil and gas sector.

61. New-generation drilling and exploration systems, equipment and solutions in the oil and gas sector.

62. Systems for refining rare-earth ores to reach industrial-grade purity.

63. Systems, equipment and solutions for assessing strategic mineral reserves.

64. Environmentally-friendly bio-based superplastic, ultra-high-strength and ultralight materials for use in extreme environments.

65. Advanced polymer materials and high-quality polymer-matrix composites for use in extreme environments which are resistant to tropical climates; high-performance fibres, specialty glass fibres, and carbon fibres.

66. Thin films produced using physical vapour deposition (PVD) and chemical vapour deposition (CVD) technologies; thin-film transistors (TFTs).

67. Pure metals and high-durability specialty alloys; high-purity materials produced on an industrial scale; steel, aluminium-alloy, and composite materials for railway vehicles and infrastructure.

68. Self-healing materials; stealth materials; advanced nanomaterials and nanocoatings.

69. Advanced and environmentally friendly materials for 3D printing.

70. High-performance rare-earth permanent magnets for electric motors; advanced magnetic materials.

71. Materials for manufacturing of micro-electro-mechanical components and smart sensors; semiconductor, optoelectronic and photonic materials.

72. Advanced ceramics for electronic and semiconductor components and for heat- and wear-resistant parts for use in machinery manufacturing.

73. New construction materials, sustainable materials, and green materials.

74. Photonic components and modules for communications, sensing, and biomedical activities.

75. Special-use lenses and digital cameras; new-generation camera modules.

76. High-output laser-generating equipment, excluding laser diodes.

77. Medical, agricultural, industrial, natural resources and environmental equipment using nuclear and radiation technologies.

78. Microwave and plasma equipment for medical use, environmental treatment and food production.

79. Ground-penetrating radar systems and equipment.

80. Systems, software and platforms for storing, processing and analysing bioinformatics data.

81. Gene therapies and molecular-marker panels for medical applications.

82. Biological reagent kits, solutions and databases for analysis and diagnosis in the medical, pharmaceutical and agricultural sectors.

83. Highly sensitive biosensors for use in medical, agricultural and environmental sectors.

84. Cells and cell-derived products for medical use; high-quality products manufactured on an industrial scale through tissue and cell propagation and culture.

85. Freeze-dried drugs, multi-component controlled-release drugs, lidose-based drugs, and targeted drugs.

86. Biological drugs for medical, pharmaceutical and agricultural applications.

87. New-generation vaccines, medical biologicals and diagnostic biologicals.

88. Purified natural active ingredients for use in medical, pharmaceutical and food production sectors.

89. Advanced equipment for medical diagnosis, monitoring and treatment, and human healthcare.

90. Brain-computer interface (BCI) devices supporting functional rehabilitation.

91. Antibacterial and antiviral equipment and materials for medical use.

92. Monoclonal antibodies, and recombinant proteins and enzymes.

93. Geospatial solutions for application in precision agriculture, smart farming, and land and natural resources management.

94. Industrial-scale systems, equipment, and solutions for automation and monitoring of soilless cultivation.

95. Smart greenhouses integrated with digital technology.

96. Equipment and systems for culture and production of plant tissues, cells, and varieties.

97. Promising lines/varieties of plants, breeds of livestock, and aquatic species of high yields and quality which are resistant to adverse biotic and abiotic conditions.

98. Advanced biologicals.

99. Nanoproducts and nanopesticides for agricultural use.

100. Microbial strains and microbial inoculants for use in medical, agricultural, and environmental sectors.