Rustam Minnikhanov visits Russian-Vietnamese Tropical research and technological center in Hanoi

On September 8, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov visited Russian-Vietnamese Tropical research and technological center in Hanoi. Presentation of the centre and its research activity was prepared for Tatarstan delegation.

The centre founded in 1987 has two branches in Ho Chi Minh and Việt Trì. It specializes in tropical ecology, tropical medicine, and tropical materials science.

Rustam Minnikhanov was told about environmental research laboratory and tropical medicine, including medical and biological consequences of the Vietnam War, new and old specially dangerous diseases, and work physiology in the tropics.

Vietnam as well as Russia pays much attention to the activity of the tropical centre.

As for tropical materials science, this area is very important for industrial enterprises, which supply equipment to different countries.

Representatives of the research centre mentioned some problems they face in their work, such as lack of scientific personnel and funding.

Rustam Minnikhanov said that such researches are interesting for Tatarstan as it is an export-oriented region. He noted that plastics, automotive produce, ships, helicopters, optics and other products are manufactured in the republic.

“Your centre is very unique, you have gained wide experience and unique information,” Rustam Minnikhanov said addressing representatives of Russian-Vietnamese Tropical research and technological center.