1. What is heavy industry?
In contrast to the light industry is the field of using many labor, the heavy industry is the field of industrial use. Therefore, heavy industry is not easy to re -allocate like light industry because it has much impact on the environment and investment costs more than light industry.
There is no unified definition for the heavy industry. Definition at the beginning of the lesson does not fully cover all the characteristics of the heavy industry. There are several other definitions of heavy industry based on the weight of the product created. One of them is based on the volume of the product cost.
Here are an example: A dollar buys steel or fuel heavier than a pharmaceutical dollar or clothing. There are also other definitions based on the amount of raw material through each worker or based on the cost of raw materials in the total value of the product of the heavy industry.
Or understand more simply, the heavy industry is the industry that the product is used to provide to other industries. For example, the output of steel workshops, chemical factories is the input of manufacturing, services or other wholesale enterprises.
2. Forecast of heavy industry in the coming time
Heavy industry is a very important industry in the future, our country will have heavy industry industries that help Vietnam develop commensurate with the region. The heavy industries are forecasted to do "so" that is:
Industry such as shipbuilding industry. Vietnam is famous for more than 3,000 km of coastline, especially in many places that can combine construction of deep -water ports, port areas, warehouses for the transfer of international transit goods. In addition, it is possible to develop the petrochemical industry, build a factory to produce equipment to equip agriculture, light industry, transportation and construction; Developing services and management in heavy industry, defense industry.
About the electronics industry. Vietnam can continue to produce personal computers, some specialized components. Along with that is the manufacture of hand -held phones, new generation machines on multimedia communications ... Our country is a country hundreds of millions of people, so it must be particularly interested in the electricity industry and the property industry. Steel export and the whole manufacturing industry.
Currently, our biggest problem is that it takes time to implement the State's strategic guidelines properly. Along with that, we also need to prepare more resources, especially the trained workers; Absorb both theory and practice from the process of transferring science and technology from foreign partners. At the same time, the accumulation of capital is also extremely important, not only financial capital, knowledge capital, capital for management.
The construction of heavy industry is compatible with the new phase to bring the industrialization and modernization of long steps. From there, promote all economic, environmental, cultural - social, security - defense and sustainable developments.
