In the last years, receiving the great concern of the people committee, the ministry of sciences and technology, with close collaboration of all levels, branches, many managers and scientists had been involved in researches and transferring many science & technology improvements in all aspects. Some application models of new technical improvements had been set up and expanded; therefore solving many requirements of the reality.

The researches on sciences and technology had been focused and prioritized for focal duties of each year. For the first years, priorities are given to baseline survey the natural resources, culture, and society to set up the database for building up the mechanism and policy for calling investment, exploiting strong points of the province, meanwhile bring to the best all national culture characters. The following years will focus on receiving and applying new technology improvements and set up the technology application models into agriculture and rural to meet the demand of "changing the agriculture economic structure and developing rural careers and services" under the decision 03 of the provincial party committee.

For the period from 1997 to 2003, 101 programmes and projects, science research proposals has been implemented with a total fund of 35, 066 million dong, including:

1. 09 proposals on baseline surveys and information technology.
2. 06 statelevel projects on setting up models for sciences and technology application in the rural and mountainous area.
3. 86 provincial programmes, projects, proposals.

The research proposals and projects had been classified according to the research fields as 

					Million dongs
Year	Total budget	Rural -agriculture	Baseline survey	Social sciences & humanities	Information technology	Others
Total	15.902	8.459	1.450	1.524	2.504	1.965
1997	500		50		400	50
1998	1.740	270	340	65	935	130
1999	1.321	420	410	140	211	140
2000	3.586	2.047	300	152	364	723
2001	3.705	2.390	250	165	300	600
2002	5.050	3.332	100	1.002	294	322
2003	3.262	830	356	1.409	520	147
Total	35.066	9.289	3.256	2.933	5.528	4.077

a. Social science and humanity

The proposals of social science and humanity received close instruction of the provincial party committee, people committee, and great concerns of all levels and branches, the results were the provision of many materials about historical and cultural traces bearing national characters, as the basics for researching the policies and mechanism to develop the socio-economy, and compile the book of Hanam province.

1. Building up the party, the government and realizing the policies and decisions of the party and the state: researches had been done on social issues, the building up of the party and government, drawing the practical issues and generalizing into theory to recommend to different party committee and government levels about scientific solutions, for continuing the socialization of the sciences and education work, improving political and ideal education, improving the organizations of the party branches, government and associations.
2. Health: Reviews to evaluate the research results in treatments using modern medicine and traditional medicine, recommend the solutions on organization and administration of the health branch.
3. Culture: organize the collect and compile into documents on the history-culture, traces and well known persons of Hanam, to be used as the materials for building up the monography book of Hanam, meanwhile supporting the researchers to understand and exploit the history and culture of Ha Nam province.

b. Baseline survey

Surveys had been done to assess the national resources and environment to provide materials and data on hydrography geology, mineral resources, present condition of the environment to support the preparation of the master plan, and the socio-economic development plan.

This result will be the scientific base to have correct decision on management, exploitation, usage and investment on the suitable technology, exploiting the strong potential of the province. Solutions had been recommended for protecting the environment of the province to ensure sustainable development.

c. Information technology

Set up the primary power of the informative technology for the departments and branches of the province. In addition, focus was made on expanding the training programmes on informative technology to improve the affective usage of the equipment to support well the information sharing and exploiting.

d. Agriculture and the rural development

Many projects and proposals on applying the  technology improvements and building up the models of new science technology had been researched and applied in fields like cultivation, cattle raising, water products cultivation and career development to support the changing of the agricultural economic structure towards increasing income value per area unit, implementing industrialization and modernization the agriculture and rural. Details are:

1. Research to produce cross-breed rice seeds, provide many new kinds of seed to the provincial people and other provinces in the region.
2. Receive the technical protocol for asexual reproduction and set up models of hatching the seeds nursing the hatched fish, raising the fingernail fish, and fishes, white pomfret and black carp in cultivating the water products, produce the seeds of fishes, white pomfret and black carp in great quantity and good quality, low price to meet the demand of people in the province and other provinces.
3. Successfully implement the models for raising crayfish and white pomfret in intensive scale, or semi-intensive scale in some low-land field in the plain and mountainous area. This is the practical base for extending many models of fish-rice-tree, rice-prawn-cattle, rice-fish-prawn for nearly 1,000 hectare in the programme for changing the low land fields of the province.
4. Effectively receive the programmes for applying new sciences and technology improvements through technology transferred from the central science institutions within some projects of the mountainous rural programmes of the Ministry of Sciences - Technology and Environment, as following projects:

• Project "Set up the vegetal tissue transplanting laboratory" had approached the bio-technology in preserving and multiplying the special trees of the prince and other provinces.
• Project "Building up the workshop to process vegetable, root and fruit into cash-product" for developing the post harvest products processing technology.
• Project: "Setting up the socio-economic development models at 3 mountainous communes in Kim Bang district" had received new techniques in cultivating to apply in the hill-foot low-land fields, and biochemistrize the cow herd, improve the goat herd  to reduce the balance gap between the mountainous and plain areas.

e. Industry and transportation

Some survey results on industry, cottage-industry and transportation, had  supported branches in understanding the present conditions and having solutions for management and suitable exploitation. In addition, some projects had supported the business companies to renew the technology and equipment, improving the products' quality and have better compete capacity in the market (e. treatment and stabilize the water resource for improving the quality of Nager beer, improve and increase the quality of fur and leather lengthening products for export garment products...).

g. Other fields

Some other projects and research proposals had provided the people committee the basic materials for research and setting up  the policy mechanism encouraging trade-tourist development, building up the infrastructure and the master plan, plan for developing sciences and technology, for protecting the environment according to the socio-economic development demand.

The result of researches and application of new technical improvements in all fields, had initially contributed actively in the process for stabilizing and developing the provincial socio-economy in the period 1997-2002.