Viet Nam allocated about 1.15 quadrillion VND (nearly 43.8 billion USD) for development investment in 2025, the highest ever recorded, the Ministry of Finance reported at its year-end review conference held in Ha Noi on January 6.

Viet Nam has a real opportunity to achieve rapid growth through 2045, provided it fundamentally changes the way value is created and ensures a sufficiently strong and reliable energy foundation, said Eric Van Vaerenbergh, an energy expert and lecturer at the Brussels Engineering School (ECAM).

Achieving double-digit economic growth in 2026 will hinge on pooling and deploying investment resources, with public funds playing a pivotal role, according to experts.

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.

National Assembly (NA) deputies on October 21 discussed in groups the implementation of the 2025 socio-economic development plan and the proposed plan for 2026, reviewing achievements, identifying intertwined challenges, and proposing key measures to sustain growth.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has emphasised the need for efforts to complete public investment disbursement by 100% for this year, with ministers, heads of sectors and leaders of localities promoting their leadership responsibilities, and relevant parties strengthening supervision, all for happiness of the people.

As the Government sets its GDP growth target for 2025 at 8.3–8.5%, public investment and key projects are positioned as critical drivers in achieving this goal. Accelerating the disbursement of investment capital will play a pivotal role in turning the Government’s growth ambitions into reality.

The National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee discussed the draft Law on E-commerce and the allocation of public investment capital on September 22 as part of its ongoing 49th session.

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.

With only four months left until the end of 2025, more than 50% of the public investment capital disbursement plan still needs to be implemented. Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has requested that by the end of the third quarter of 2025, the minimum disbursement rate should reach about 60% of the plan, and by the end of the year achieve 100% of the 2025 capital plan.

According to the Ministry of Finance, in the first eight months of 2025, public investment disbursement reached nearly 410 trillion VND, equivalent to 46.5% of the year’s plan, up about 135 trillion VND compared to the same period last year. This is the highest disbursement level in many years.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on July 31 chaired the 19th meeting of the State Steering Committee for National Key Transport Projects, urging ministries, sectors, and localities to accelerate efforts to complete 3,000km of expressways by the end of 2025.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has ordered that the restructuring of local governments must not hinder the implementation of the critical national programmes addressing substandard houses, transport infrastructure, and public investment disbursement.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on June 22 chaired a national teleconference to speed up substandard housing eradication, key transport projects, and public investment disbursement.

After a sluggish start to the year, the pace of public investment disbursement showed marked improvement in May 2025, with over 199 trillion VND disbursed, an increase compared to last year.

Given the great pressure caused by domestic and external difficulties and challenges, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has underlined the need to stay steadfast in the targets of firmly maintaining macro-economic stability, controlling inflation, boosting growth, and guaranteeing major balances of the economy.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on November 10 signed an official dispatch requiring all ministries, sectors and localities to speed up the disbursement of public investment in the remaining months of 2022 and the first months of the following year.

The National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee wrapped up its 16th session on October 12, during which it stepped up preparations for the parliament’s coming fourth session.

A project on decentralisation of State management and issues relating to public investment were mulled over at the 9th meeting of the 16th-tenure Hanoi People’s Council which opened on September 12.

Vietnam’s major economic balances were maintained in the first eight months of this year despite a slew of difficulties, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh told a Government meeting that opened in Hanoi on September 6.