Fostering defence industry development for the building of a modern Vietnam People’s Army

Monday, September 15, 2025, 07:59 (GMT+7)
Promoting its 80-year tradition of construction, combat, and maturity, the General Department of Defence Industry continues to take synchronised measures to successfully fulfil the goal of developing a “proactive, self-reliant, dual-purpose, modern” defence industry as a spearhead of national industry, facilitating the building of a modern Vietnam People’s Army, firmly protecting the Fatherland in the new era

Following Uncle Ho’s teachings, Factory Z111 develops new, modern products

Tuesday, July 29, 2025, 07:12 (GMT+7)
Being imbued with President Ho Chi Minh’s ideology on the key role of science and technology in Fatherland construction and protection, Factory Z111 (General Department of Defence Industry - GDDI) has been taking synchronised measures for science - technology development and devoting efforts to researching and developing new, modern products as a crucial breakthrough

Factory Z183 improves its production and business capacity

Friday, June 27, 2025, 08:26 (GMT+7)
With great resolve and knowledge of “Uncle Ho’s Soldiers” on production front, the Factory’s Party Committee and Board of Directors have drastically taken various measures to improve the Factory’s competitiveness, production and business efficiency, and prestige in the market

Institute of Technology actively researches and develops novel, modern products

Tuesday, September 17, 2024, 08:29 (GMT+7)
Over the past few years, the Institute of Technology (IoT), General Department of Defence Industry (GDDI) has sticked to its missions and the aforementioned orientation and adopted synchronous measures to enhance scientific studies, focusing on research and development of new, modern products.

Military Vessel Design Institute overcomes difficulties to master technologies

Wednesday, January 31, 2024, 11:42 (GMT+7)
In recent years, facing developments of building the Vietnam People’s Army (VPA) and defending the Fatherland, most notably the requirements of self-reliance and modernisation of the VPA, the MVDI Party Committee and Commanders have stuck to the direction for developing the defence industry; proactively overcome difficulties, taken advantage of opportunities, and pursued many solutions to improve capacity to research, design, and provide advice to military ship building programmes.

General Department of Defence Industry promotes the implementation of Resolution No. 847 of the Central Military Commission

Friday, July 15, 2022, 15:47 (GMT+7)
Promoting the results achieved in Party building work, studying and following of Ho Chi Minh's thought, morality and style, over the past time, GDDI has paid much attention to the dissemination and implementation of Resolution 847, and deployed it with synchronous solutions.

General Department of Defence Industry with the task of building a modern defence industry

Tuesday, May 17, 2022, 09:45 (GMT+7)
To be further proactive in the context of globalisation and the Fourth Industrial Revolution requires the GDDI to step up reform, improve quality of scientific, technological research and application, master advanced, modern technologies, and enhance capability to research and develop weapons and equipment, especially strategic weapons and next-generation army weapons, ensuring maneuver and operation in complex terrain, weather conditions.

Building and developing the defence industry as the spearhead of the national industry

Monday, September 13, 2021, 16:55 (GMT+7)
Defence industry's capacity to research, design, manufacture and repair weapons and technical equipment has markedly changed and made a breakthrough, gradually mastering the technology of production, repair, improvement and digitisation of many types of weapons and technical equipment of new generation, high technology and modernity, in line with Vietnam’s national defence strategy and military art.

Factory Z127 implements "one focus, two breakthroughs"

Thursday, April 29, 2021, 14:22 (GMT+7)
Facing the strong impact of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and challenges in international integration, in order to fulfill its tasks well, the Party Committee and the Board of Directors of the Factory have identified many leadership guidelines and solutions, in which, promoting the implementation of Directive No. 05-CT/TW of the Politburo (12 tenure) with "one focus, two breakthroughs" is a central and permanent task.

The Factory Z117 accelerates its process of integration and development

Wednesday, November 18, 2020, 10:05 (GMT+7)
In addition to advantages, in recent years, the Factory has been confronted with a lot of difficulties and challenges. Its resources for production have not been synchronous. Most of its equipment and production lines have been obsolete. The Factory’s mechanical products have faced the increasingly fierce competition. There has been an increase in the price of materials, and sources of a number of imported materials have not been stable