An overall assessment of industrial production results in the first nine months of 2026 shows that growth has had relatively broad-based spillover effects across the country, localities, economic sectors, and business sectors. This creates strong confidence and expectations for continued growth momentum in industrial production sectors in the final quarter of the year.

If Viet Nam’s economy were likened to a train moving towards its destination, the state-owned sector would be the engineer designing the tracks and direction, the private sector the driving force propelling the train forward, and the foreign-invested sector the stations supplying the energy needed for it to accelerate towards its goal.