Prime Minister calls for creating digital industrial complexes
VGP - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh called for creating digital industrial complexes featuring high added value and strong spillover effects, while addressing the national forum on the development of digital economy and digital society that took place on Saturday.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh (C) chairs the national forum on the development of digital economy and society, Ha Noi, December 20, 2025 - Photo: VGP
The Government leader ordered accelerating the digitalization and restructuring of industries, especially foundational and key industries, through the power of science, technology, innovation, and digital transformation.
It is necessary to closely integrate new rural development with the development of digital villages and communes while promoting high-standard Vietnamese agricultural brands that apply digital technologies and green transformation, Pham said.
He also called for building smart and modern digital service ecosystems, with finance, logistics, and tourism as key breakthrough sectors, stimulating consumption in the digital environment, strongly developing e-commerce, and boosting cashless payments.
The Government chief stressed the need to foster digital transformation to optimize basic social services such as healthcare and education through e-health records and e-student records while building a transparent and efficient digital social security network in the spirit of "leaving no one left behind."
The Ministry of Industry and Trade should speed up progress, conclude negotiations, and complete necessary procedures for Viet Nam to officially become a member of the Digital Economy Partnership Agreement (DEPA), said Prime Minister.
In 2025, Viet Nam has accelerated the rollout of 5G services, with nearly 24,000 5G base stations installed, covering most urban areas and reaching 58.9 percent of the national population.
Mobile Internet speeds have risen by 50 places, placing the nation among the world's top 20 this year.
The number of digital technology enterprises has grown rapidly, from 58,000 in 2020 to around 80,000 in 2025.
Export turnover of digital technology products increased sharply, estimated at US$172 billion in 2025, more than 1.7 times higher than in 2020.
E-commerce has seen a remarkable breakthrough, estimated to reach US$36 billion in 2025, triple the 2020 level, with annual growth of 22–25 percent, the highest in the region.
By the end of 2025, the total value of cashless payments is estimated to be 26 times GDP, with more than 20.2 billion transactions per year./.
