Gov't adopts major tasks, solutions for improving Viet Nam's business environment in 2026

RESOLUTION 

ON MAJOR TASKS AND SOLUTIONS TO IMPROVE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT, SHARPEN NATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS IN 2026

THE GOVERNMENT

Pursuant to the Law on Organization of the Government dated February 18, 2025;

Pursuant to the Resolution No. 244/2025/QH15 dated November 13, 2025 of the National Assembly approving the Socio-economic development plan for 2026;

At the request of the Minister of Finance,

RESOLOVES:

I. REALITIES

In 2025, the global landscape continued to evolve rapidly and complicatedly, featuring with multi-polar, multi-centered, multi-layered, and fragmentation trends. Though globalization and economic connectivity continued to move forward, this process is facing greater challenges and difficulties, notably the emergence of protectionism, imposition of tariff policies, and rising risk of trade war. This results in restructuring production and supply chains on global scale.

In our country, strategic breakthrough decisions in terms of law building and enforcement, development of science, technology, innovation and digital transformation, private economy, state economy, international integration, development of education and training, public healthcare, and cultural development, as well as the revolution to streamline the political system have opened up a historic opportunity and a turning point for the strong development of the nation in the new era. The Government and the Prime Minister have taken drastic and flexible actions to promote economic recovery and development, consolidate business confidence, with a focus on the three strategic breakthroughs, including improving laws, speeding up decentralization and delegation of authority and powers, cutting and simplifying administrative procedures in order to improve the business environment.

As a result, macro-economy remained stable, inflation was tamed, major economic balances were ensured, development investment brought about positive results, etc. The major targets and tasks on improving business environment, sharpening national competiveness have been fulfilled, especially, digital transformation and administrative procedure reform brought about prominent results. The achievements gained in 2025 contributed to raising Viet Nam's prestige on the international arena, laying a solid foundation and important premise for our country to rise up and affirm its standing in the new era. Several indicators reflecting improvements in business environment and national competitiveness were highly valued by major prestigious international organizations. Viet Nam's business and investment environment has improved remarkably, with many breakthroughs recorded in several fields, creating good foundations for long-term growth. These breakthroughs have consolidated confidence and proved the Government's recent reform efforts.

However, apart from the aforesaid achievements, Viet Nam still faces major challenges related to sustainable development and fundamental factors such as capital and infrastructure, etc. Several sub-indices of the sustainable development indicator remain low and have slowly been improved, affecting long-term growth; it remains difficult to access capital, land and space for business and production activities and infrastructure development, especially infrastructure to support the development and application of science and technology while digital transformation has yet met the requirements; the ecosystem in favor of business development is not strong enough, etc. Though efforts have been made to streamline and cut administrative procedures and business conditions but administrative procedures and business remain complex; online public services have been improved but still remain unsmoothly; data sharing and connectivity remain at initial stage and have yet met the "correct, full, clean, unified, and … requirements. This requires strong reform in the coming time.

As 2026 is forecast to continue with opportunities and difficulties intertwined, improving business environment and sharpening national competitiveness remain an urgent requirement to consolidate trust and inject new momentum for the business community, prompting the need for ministries, agencies and localities to make strong, substantive and drastic efforts. The Government requests ministries, agencies and localities to consider improving business environment and sharpening national competitiveness as an important and urgent task of top priority to remove institutional barriers and bottlenecks in order to create a business and investment climate that is healthy and fair for the development of all economic sectors.

II. GUIDING VIEWPOINTS

1. Enhancing the leadership of the Party, improving the capacity, efficiency and effectiveness of State management, implementing the Resolutions of the Party Central Committee, the Politburo, and the Secretariat and the Resolutions of the National Assembly and the Government in a comprehensive, drastic, effective and substantive manner in order to create a open, transparent, stable, safe, clear, consistent, feasible and low-cost business environment, which is regionally and internationally competitive in accordance with international good practices. Improving business environment across all aspects, from institutions, policies, administrative procedures, digital platform development to enforcement capacity to create a foundation for the long-term development, healthy cooperation and competition of all economic sectors; ensuring fair, open and transparent access to resources, market and development opportunities. Promoting the development of new production forces and models, with a focus on digital economy, green economy, circular economy, developing digital society.

2. Resolutely transforming the mindset in law-making work from "management" to "development" to serve people and businesses; improving the quality of legal documents, completely removing "bottlenecks", encouraging the development of businesses in priority areas, ensuring that businesses shall be allowed to do things that not prohibited by laws, encouraging and protecting businesses' innovation, protecting enterprises' right to business and assets. Putting forward breakthrough mechanisms and policies to unlock all resources, improve the competitiveness of the economy, and create all favorable conditions for the development of Vietnamese businesses.

3. Accelerating administrative reform, combining decentralization and delegation of authority and powers with strict inspection and supervision. Enhancing openness and transparency, heightening autonomy and upholding accountability to prevent and control corruption, wastefulness and wrongdoings. Rigorously shifting the mindset from "management" to "service", replacing "pre-check" by "post-inspection" on the basis of a system of clear standards and norms. At the same time, ensuring clear authority and responsibility of each agency, sector, and unit in accordance with "six clear" criteria: clear person, clear task, clear accomplishment time, clear responsibility, clear production, clear authority in order to achieve "three easy" goal: easy to implement, easy to check, and easy to evaluate.

4. Upholding the responsibility of leaders in organizing the implementation of tasks and solutions to improve business environment and sharpen national competitiveness. Strengthening discipline and developing effective inter-sectoral coordination mechanisms.

5. Mobilizing the involvement of the business community and experts in formulating and implementing tasks related to business environment improvement and in evaluating the implementaiton outcomes.

III. TARGETS

1. Overall target

To continue to remarkably improve the quality of business environment in order to further heighten the country's standing on the international business environment rankings. To create a healthy, open, transparent, low-cost business environment in accordance with international good practices; encourage innovation and creativity, free up production capacity, mobilize all resources and create new driving forces for development.

2. Specific targets

a) To focus on completing tasks and solutions enshrined in the Party and State's Resolutions on breakthrough development of science and technology, innovation, and digital transformation, private economy development, State economy development, renovation in law making and enforcement, and international integration in the new context.

- Global rankings of national competitiveness in 2026:

+ Striving to be among top 50 countries on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Index.

+ Striving for an increase of the International Property Right Index of the Property Rights Alliance by at least three places compared to the previous rankings.

+ Striving for an increase of the Global Innovation Index (GII) of the World Intellectual Property Organization by at least one place compared to the previous rankings.

+ Striving for an increase of the E-Government Development Index (EGDI) of the United Nations by at least two places compared to the previous rankings.

+ Maintaining the ranking of the Global Cybersecurity Index (GCI) of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in Tier 1.

+ Striving for an increase of the Logistics Performance Index (LPI) of the World Bank by at least four places compared to the previous rankings.

+ Striving for an increase of the Travel and Tourism Development Index (TTDI) of the World Economic Forum by at least four places compared to the previous rankings.

- Improving indicators that reflect the satisfaction of people and businesses for the performance of authorities at all levels related to domestic business environment:

+ Provincial Competitiveness Index (PCI): The average PCI score increases by one point;

+ Public Administration Reform Index (PAR Index): The average PAR Index of ministries and agencies is projected to reach 84.7 percent; the average PAR Index of provinces and centrally-run cities is projected to reach 88.87 percent.

+ Satisfaction Index of Public Administrative Services (SIPAS): The average SIPAS index is projected to reach 86 percent

b) Creating an healthy environment to rapidly increase the number of businesses joining and rejoining the market, reducing the rate of businesses withdrawing from the market (dissolved, bankrupt businesses or businesses suspending operation). The number of businesses joining and rejoining the market in 2026 is expected to increase by 15-20 percent compared to the previous year; the number of businesses withdrawing from the market in 2026 is expected to increase by around 10 percent compared to 2025.

IV. MAJOR TASKS AND SOLUTIONS

Ministries, agencies and People's Committees of provinces and centrally-run cities shall organize the implementation of the following tasks and solutions:

1. Carrying out the following institutional pillars in a serious, comprehensive and drastic manner: Resolution No. 57-NQ/TW dated December 22, 2025 of the Politburo on breakthrough development in science and technology, innovation and digital transformation; Resolution No. 59-NQ/TW dated January 24, 2025 of the Politburo on international integration in the new context; Resolution No. 66-NQ/TW dated April 30, 2025 of the Politburo on innovating the law making and enforcement work; Resolution No. 68-NQ/TW dated May 4, 2025 of the Politburo on private economy development; Resolution No. 70-NQ/TW on August 20, 2025 of the Politburo on ensuring national energy security; Resolution No. 71-NQ/TW dated August 25, 2025 of the Politburo on breakthrough development of education and training; Resolution No. 72-NQ/TW dated August 30, 2025 of the Politburo on a number of breakthrough solutions to strengthen the protection, care and improvement of public health; Resolution No. 79-NQ/TW dated January 6, 2026 of the Politburo on State economy development. The comprehensive implementation of these Resolutions aims to create a strong impetus for the nation to advance strongly in the new era and achieve the goal of becoming a developed, high-income country by 2045.

2. Continuing drastic and effective implementation of the guidelines for re-arrangement of apparatus, for operation of the two-tier local administration system; proactively overcoming shortcomings and barriers in the operation of communal-level administrations.

3. Enhancing the responsibility and proactiveness of ministries and agencies assigned to act as the focal points in supervising the improvements of global indicators (specified in Index I attached to this Resolution).

4. Fully, consistently and effectively carrying out tasks and solutions specified in the Part IV as well as the targets, tasks and solutions specified in the Index II and Index III attached to this Resolution in order to achieve the objectives for business environment improvement in 2206, focusing on the following central solutions:

a) Designing breakthrough solutions to institutions, mechanisms and policies; removing legal shortcomings and bottlenecks. Innovating the mindset in making and enforcing laws to ensure that the economy operates on the basis of socialist-oriented market mechanism, using market tools to regulate the economy.

b) Reviewing and improving the quality of the list of conditional business and investment lines. Streamlining and standardizing business conditions in an appropriate and transparent manner, shifting management of business conditions from licensing and certification to disclosure of business conditions and post-inspection.

c) Reforming administrative procedures, improving the effectiveness of processing administrative procedures. A part from the targets, tasks and solutions mentioned in the Index II, Index III of this Resolution, ministries, agencies and localities need to steer resources to administrative procedures reform to remove barriers and promote the development of private economy and State economy in accordance with Resolution No. 68-NQ/TW dated May 4, 2025 and Resolution No. 79-NQ/TW dated January 6, 2026 of the Politburo. Shifting the handling of administrative procedures from "passive service" to "active service", independent on administrative boundaries and fully based on data; strengthening evaluation of the quality of administrative procedures and public services provided by ministries, sectors, and localities.

d) Giving priority to unlocking resources and creating the most favorable conditions for businesses to access capital, land, space for business activities, and high-quality workforce.

dd) Providing support for sustainable development of the private sector and State sector, promoting innovation, digital transformation and green transition, focusing on attracting and mastering high and advanced technologies to improve competitiveness, business efficiency, and sustainability.

e) Providing practical and effective support for small and micro businesses and business households. Improving the quality of business development services. Developing a full and professional service support ecosystem, creating a solid foundation for the development of business activities.

g) Improving the quality and efficiency of inspection, including specialized inspection of goods, reducing burdens on businesses.

V. ORGANIZATION OF IMPLEMENTATION

1. Ministers, heads of ministerial-level agencies and Government-attached bodies, and Chairpersons of the People's Committees of provinces and centrally-run cities:

a) Identifying the improvement of business environment as the top priority; being accountable to the Government and the Prime Minister for the results of implementing this Resolution.

b) Prior to January 20, 2026, formulating and issuing plans/programs of action to implement this Resolution, in which targets, tasks, timelines, projected results for each task, and focal points, reporting to the Ministry of Finance and the Government Office to submit to the Prime Minister.

c) Regularly monitoring and supervising the progress and results of the implementation of plans/programs of action for implementing Resolutions on business environment improvement; making public inspection and supervision outcomes. Assigning a focal units to oversee business environment improvements in ministries, agencies and localities.

d) Organizing communication on tasks and solutions to improve business environment within their scope of responsibility.

dd) Promoting the supervisory and feedback role of citizens and businesses in the process of designing laws, mechanisms, and policies. Proactively and actively coordinating with the Viet Nam Chamber of Commerce and Industry and business associations in organizing dialogues to timely grasp policy feedbacks, ensuring substantive dialogues with businesses and investors and immediately resolving obstacles to prevent trade and investment disputes.

e) Prior to May 31 and November 20, 2026, making reports and sending to the Ministry of Finance and the Government Office for synthesis and submission to the Government and the Prime Minister at the Cabinet's mid-year and year-end meetings.

2. Ministries and agencies assigned to monitor and evaluate the progress of international indices shall have to report on Viet Nam's international rankings and solutions to improve the rankings to the Prime Minister within five working days since the relevant international organizations officially release these international indices, specifically:

a) The Ministry of Finance shall monitor and evaluate the improvements of the Sustainable Development Goals;

b) The Ministry of Agriculture and Environment shall monitor and evaluate the improvements of the Intellectual Property Rights Index (IPRI);

c) The Ministry of Science and Technology shall monitor and evaluate the progress of administration reform and the improvements of the Global Innovation Index and the E-government Development Index;

d) The Ministry of Public Security shall monitor and evaluate the improvements of the Global Cybersecurity Index (GCI);

dd) The Ministry of Industry and Trade shall monitor and evaluate the improvements of the Logistics Performance Index (LPI);

e) The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism shall monitor and evaluate the improvements of the Travel and Tourism Development Index (TTDI);

3. The Ministry of Finance shall monitor, evaluate, design and submit first-half and whole-year reports on the progress and the outcomes of implementing this Resolution to the Government.

4. The Prime Minister's Administrative Procedure Reform Council shall promote its advisory role to propose initiatives for reforming mechanisms, policies and administrative procedures related to businesses and people.

5. The Viet Nam Chamber of Commerce and Industry shall promote its role as the bridge between the business community and the Government's agencies; proactively coordinate closely with ministries, agencies and localities in implementing solutions to improve business environment; promptly detect difficulties and obstacles faced by the business community and put forward related solutions; carry out surveys and make public the Provincial Competitiveness Index, and simultaneously send them to the Ministry of Finance and the Government Office for synthesis and report to the Government on the progress of implementing this Resolution.

6. Business associations shall supervise and conduct independent and regular assessment of the outcomes of implementing this Resolution.

7. The Viet Nam News Agency, the Voice of Viet Nam, the Viet Nam Television, and press agencies shall proactively assist ministries, agencies and localities in organizing the popularization of this Resolution among sectors, levels, people and businesses; enhance their monitoring and supervision role over the results of implementing this Resolution./.