Historical and Chinese researchers participating in a YouTube discussion of BBC News Vietnamese broadcast on July 8, 2021, said that Vietnam can learn a lot from red China in the fields of education and economics. , science and technology…, but Vietnam should not learn about politics from China.
“Student-centered” education
Having studied for 5 years at Tsinghua University, Beijing from 2010 to 2015, along with experience working for universities in Vietnam, Ms. Ngo Tuyet Lan believes that Vietnamese university governance should refer to the university governance model in China as “student-centered.”
Ms. Lan cited Tsinghua University, while the dean’s offices and institutes are often small and simple, the library system is “extremely wonderful, very majestic, all the documents Anything in the world can appear at Tsinghua Library.”
The lecture system here is also very modern, she added.
In addition, the policy of talent development in China has a very roadmap, according to Chinese researcher Ngo Tuyet Lan, who joined the program from Hanoi.
That is, China is very clear in its education policy, they have a very clear strategy for the talents they train to serve the economic development of the country.
“For example, there are students who are about to graduate from school, which areas and agencies have been planned for a period of time, there is a very clear roadmap,” said Ms. Lan.
Sharing the same view, Professor Ngo Vinh Long from the University of Maine, USA said that “the Chinese government invests a lot in education, especially for scientific research.”
Meanwhile, “Vietnam has not been able to and cannot do so,” commented Mr. Long.
Therefore, this professor advises “Vietnam should not lose money at the moment, Vietnam must study how to develop in the long run.”
“Vietnam is not like that”
Participating in the discussion, historian Le Van Sinh from Hanoi National University compared Vietnam with China.
Together as two countries led by the Communist Party and sharing the same ideology, China has risen to become the world’s second economic superpower after decades, and “there’s nothing the world can do that it can’t do.”
Meanwhile, Mr. Sinh frankly assessed “Vietnam is not like that.”
Therefore, according to him, Vietnam needs to learn Chinese technology, science and technology, and advances in addition to what it has learned from the West.
What should Vietnam not learn from China?
China researcher Ngo Tuyet Lan thinks that Vietnam should not learn to “censor like China is doing with its people.”
Citing evidence from Vietnam’s success in controlling the Covid-19 pandemic last year, Ms. Lan analyzed: “It is cooperation and mutual trust between the people and the government.”
Therefore, she assessed that the Vietnamese Communist Party is doing better than China in “listening to the people.”
In a more general view, according to historian Le Van Sinh, what Vietnam should not learn from China is the political system.
Because according to him, “when that political institution develops to a certain extent, it will have to face a pressing problem of the times, which is the issue of the people’s freedom and the people’s democracy.”
Therefore, “if Vietnam can break away from that model of China, I believe that Vietnam will progress very quickly, Vietnam will be able to firmly defend its sovereignty and territorial integrity,” Mr. Sinh said.
Sharing the same opinion, Professor Ngo Vinh Long said: “Vietnam should not imitate China’s political model because the problem of China’s repression will lead to political chaos”
“So I think if Vietnam follows the Chinese model, Vietnam will fail,” commented Mr. Long.
Thoibao.de (Translated)
Source: https://www.bbc.com/vietnamese/vietnam-57778124
