MHI subsidises tuition to spur industrial tech

The five-year programme aims to realize the September 15, 2015 agreement between Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and Vietnam’s Ministry of Education and Training (MoET).

The main objective of this agreement is the development of human resources so as to spur on the machinery industry in a rapidly industrializing Vietnam.

To this end, each year MHI will provide financial support to underwrite five Vietnamese students’ study in Japan. Applications for the opening year of the programme is required to be sent before May 1, 2016.

“The global market, including Vietnam, is evolving constantly. We have set up this programme to help able-minded Vietnamese students further their academic achievements, and to later work in the rapidly-changing global economic scene. I look forward to the success of this programme towards Vietnam’s development, and in fostering opportunities to work together in the future,” said Kenichi Sonoda, general manager for MHI’s Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City liaison offices.

MHI has great expectations for competent Vietnamese students to come and study in Japan, gain valuable experience, acquire new knowledge, and then return home to play an important role in their home country’s development.

Committed to the development of young people – the drivers of their country’s future – MHI has been involved in joint initiatives with Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST) for six years, and Vietnam Electric Power University (EPU) for five years, by establishing courses in the fields of nuclear energy and aeronautical engineering.

MHI is one of the world’s leading comprehensive heavy industry companies supplying widely-diversified products underpinned by advanced technologies, e.g., a variety of power generators, aircraft, space rockets, ships, transportation systems, distribution and logistics, environmental facilities, industrial machinery, automobile-related products, and defence-related gear.

Last November, MHI successfully launched the first flight of MRJ, the next-generation regional jet it has been developing.

The launch of the H-IIA No.30 rocket on February 17, 2016 was also a success, delivering into orbit the ASTRO-H (Hitomi) X-ray space observatory to study black holes.

MHI is engaged in diversified operations in Vietnam. In the power sector, the company has supplied machinery to Phu My, a highly-efficient gas turbine combined cycle (GTCC) power plant (1,090 megawatts) based in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau.

Achieving an outstanding operational performance, this plant has made a significant contribution to promoting economic development in the country.

Another key ingredient for social infrastructure development is steel. MHI also supplies cold-rolling as well as hot-rolling steel production machinery to local firms in Vietnam.

In addition to supplying quality products and machinery, MHI has established its operation centres in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi to promote businesses that are closely linked to local communities.

More specifically, the company built MHI Engine Systems Vietnam (MHIES-V) just outside of Ho Chi Minh City for emergency diesel generators and MHI Aerospace Vietnam Co., Ltd (MHIVA) in the Hanoi suburbs for assembling structural components for commercial-use aircraft.

These MHI projects contribute to local development through the transfer of technology from Japan and also by creating jobs – a win-win situation for both MHI and Vietnam.