The Ministry of Science and Technology held a ceremony on December 26 to present the 2010 national quality prizes to 96 businesses and the Asia-Pacific Quality Awards to three others in the presence of Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Sinh Hung.

 The National Quality Awards aim to honour businesses with outstanding achievements in improving the quality of their products.

 The gold awards recipients included six manufacturing enterprises and five services enterprises, which also received certificates of merit from the Prime Ministers and were nominated for participating in the Asia-Pacific Quality awards.

 Addressing the awards ceremony, Deputy PM Hung emphasized the importance of focusing on quality, which he said would help raise the competitiveness of Vietnamese businesses in the contexts of the market economy and economic integration.

 He said Vietnamese businesses should devise their strategies on the basis of quality standards to gradually assert their trademarks both inside and outside the country.

 VOV