Prime Minister Le Minh Hung called on ministries, sectors and localities to intensify efforts to accelerate economic growth and maintain macroeconomic stability, with the goal of achieving double-digit growth in 2026.

The National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee has urged the Government to remain vigilant against mounting macroeconomic risks, including inflationary pressures, volatile energy prices, a potential shift toward a trade deficit, slow public investment disbursement, and uncertainties in financial, monetary and gold markets, while calling for updated policy scenarios to safeguard growth and stability.

The Prime Minister underlined that public investment has consistently been identified as a key political task, with public investment disbursement results serving as one of the criteria for evaluating officials under Party regulations. Through state spending, public investment directly boosts aggregate demand and serves as an effective tool for regulating and stabilising the macroeconomy while safeguarding major economic balances.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has signed Official Dispatch No. 237/CD-TTg dated December 6, 2025, calling for faster disbursement of public investment capital in the rest of the year.

Viet Nam disbursed 553.25 trillion VND (20.98 billion USD) in public investment over the past 11 months, equivalent to 60.6% of the plan set by the Prime Minister and up 2.4% year-on-year, the Ministry of Finance reported.

With just over two months remaining to complete the disbursement of public investment capital for 2025, this task is regarded as a crucial objective, contributing to achieving the economic growth target of over 8% for the year and ensure the fulfilment of the 2025 disbursement plan.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh signed an official dispatch on September 21, outlining key tasks and solutions to speed up public investment disbursement this year.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has directed ministries, central agencies, and localities to ensure 100% disbursement of public investment capital in 2025, urging serious implementation of Government resolutions, directives, and instructions.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on September 11 signed an official dispatch, urging ministries, agencies, and localities to step up the disbursement of public investment capital this year.

Chairing the September 10 meeting of Working Group No. 8, which monitors, addresses bottlenecks, and promotes public investment disbursement for six ministries and central agencies, Deputy PM Mai Van Chinh pointed out that their disbursement progress in August remained significantly lower than the average of other ministries, central agencies, and the nation as a whole.

As of the end of August 2025, public investment disbursement from the state budget is estimated at over 434 trillion VND, equivalent to 39.79% of the annual plan. This rate is higher than the same period in 2024, but the progress still falls short of requirements, demanding ministries, sectors, and localities to urgently remove bottlenecks and coordinate effectively to meet the set targets.

In 2025, Thanh Hoa province is assigned to manage and use more than 14 trillion VND of public investment capital. As of July 17, the cumulative disbursement of public investment capital reached 5.755 trillion VND, equal to 40.5% of the annual plan.

Viet Nam’s GDP growth of 7.96% in the second quarter is an encouraging figure, pulling first-half GDP growth to 7.52% — the highest level in the past 15 years. In the second quarter, the industrial and construction sector and the services sector posted impressive growth rates of 8.97% and 8.46% respectively, continuing to serve as the pillars of economic growth.