The State gives priority investment to education and encouragement to other investors. Priority investment is reserved for educational work in the high- lands, in regions inhabited by national minorities and in regions encountering special difficulties. Mass organisations, first of all the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union, social organisations, economic bodies, the family and the school all bear responsibility for the education of the youth, teenagers and children. Article 37 Science and technology play a key role in the country's socio-economic development. The State makes investment in and gives financial assistance to science through various channels, priority being reserved for vanguard sciences and technologies.
Priority is given to the programme of health care for highlanders and national minorities.
It is strictly forbidden to private organisations and individuals to dispense medical treatment, to produce and trade in medicaments illegally, thereby damaging the people's health. The State and society shall develop a system of physical culture and sports that is national, scientific and popular. The State shall expand international intercourse and cooperation in the fields of culture, information, literature, art, science, technology, education, health care, physical culture and sports.