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Vietnam Embarks on Strategic Shift to Preventive and Lifelong Public Healthcare
Jan. 22, 2026 | Health

Vietnam’s health sector is shifting toward comprehensive, lifelong public healthcare that emphasizes prevention, early intervention, and community-based services.

**At its January 19–25, 2026 session, the Party’s 14th National Congress affirmed Politburo Resolution 72 (September 9, 2025), marking a strategic shift from medical treatment to a life-course approach that emphasizes disease prevention, early and remote care, and grassroots-level services.**
The resolution cites persistent challenges in Vietnam’s healthcare system—especially weaknesses in its institutional framework—and casts health policies around the population as Vietnam’s most valuable asset.

**Building on this mandate, the Ministry of Health drafted Government Resolution 282 to assign specific tasks, timelines, and responsibilities.**
Strong coordination among ministries and local authorities has produced draft policies tailored to regional needs. To overcome institutional bottlenecks, officials are finalizing regulations and mechanisms that will mobilize and allocate resources efficiently, ensuring joint participation by state bodies, the private sector, and communities. Over the next five years, the Ministry plans to refine laws and regulations to formalize these institutional reforms.

**Alongside these structural changes, Resolution 72 calls for a diversified resource base that combines public budget allocations, the health insurance fund, private-sector investments, and community contributions.**
The Ministry intends to launch a national target health program over the next decade and strengthen universal health insurance management. By issuing transparent policies, it aims to encourage societal involvement and coordinated action, while establishing monitoring systems to track resource flows and uphold accountability.

**To enshrine these directives in law, authorities have submitted key legal instruments to the 14th National Assembly: a Resolution on healthcare breakthroughs, the Law on Disease Prevention, the Population Law, and a National Target Program on Health Development and Population Policy for the next ten years.**
Together, these measures create a legal framework for life-course healthcare, preventive interventions, and strategic resource allocation, with implementation managed from central to local levels.

**Implementing this new strategy also depends on skilled personnel and modern technology.**
The Ministry is strengthening training and professional standards for health workers—particularly in grassroots and preventive care—and offering enhanced legal protections and incentives to deploy staff to priority areas. Pilot programs in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City are testing models of early and remote care. Meanwhile, digital health initiatives will introduce electronic medical records, integrated health databases, artificial intelligence in research, and other digital solutions to boost accessibility, convenience, and innovation in service delivery.
Escalating Anti-Corruption and Reform Measures Reshape Party Governance and Economic Policy
Jan. 22, 2026 | Governance & Law

Efforts to prevent corruption, wastefulness, and misconduct now drive the Party’s agenda across multiple sectors.

**Under its 13th Congress term, the Party’s Politburo and Central Steering Committee led a decisive, persistent campaign to combat corruption, wastefulness, and negative practices.**
They uncovered and handled large-scale, sophisticated cases in banking, securities, auctions, and public investment, some exploiting complex organizational networks and the pandemic context. Party inspection bodies and prosecutorial agencies strengthened coordination, combining Party disciplinary measures, state administrative actions, and criminal prosecutions to improve asset recovery and enforcement. These efforts drew widespread public support at both central and local levels and contributed to a cleaner, stronger Party and political system.

**As the Party moves into the 14th Congress term, it will further strengthen its leadership and disciplinary mechanisms while ensuring anti-corruption work underpins sustained, double-digit socio-economic growth.**
This approach involves renewing thinking, mindsets, and methods in line with recent Politburo resolutions and aligning anti-corruption initiatives with institutional and legal improvements. The Party will focus on identifying and closing legal loopholes—particularly in land and investment projects—and adapting laws to prevent bad actors from exploiting gaps. It will also foster the private economy as a development resource and remove obstacles hindering public and private investment.

**The Party will reinforce preventive measures by detecting and handling violations early, reducing reliance on criminal prosecutions and enhancing the recovery of misappropriated assets.**
The People’s Procuracy will gain expanded authority to initiate civil and administrative lawsuits. Broader asset controls and the advancement of cashless payment systems will increase transparency, creating a more open environment for monitoring officials’ and organizations’ financial activities.

**The Party also plans further institutional reforms to eliminate overlapping functions among anti-corruption agencies and improve operational efficiency from central to local levels.**
It will introduce policies to protect and incentivize innovators and responsible actors while strictly sanctioning those who evade accountability. Through education and public information campaigns, the Party aims to build a culture of integrity among officials, Party members, and the public. Agencies tasked with combating corruption and wastefulness must maintain exemplary standards of integrity to preserve their credibility and effectiveness.

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Vietnam cracks down on complex corruption ‘ecosystems’

Vietnam Net - E | English | News | Jan. 23, 2026 | Corporate Corruption or Fraud

Le Minh Tri, Secretary of the Party Central Committee and Standing Deputy Head of the Central Internal Affairs Commission, revealed that during the 13th Party Congress term, many large-scale, highly organized corruption cases resembling interconnected "ecosystems" were uncovered and addressed. These corruption networks involved banks, securities firms, valuation agencies, and notary offices, with hundreds of affiliated companies manipulating stocks, rigging auctions, distorting public investment, and exploiting crises like the COVID-19 pandemic. The anti-corruption campaign was comprehensive, consistent, and led directly by the Party, significantly strengthening Party discipline, enhancing public trust, and reducing corruption, waste, and misconduct across government levels.

The campaign's success included improved asset recovery and tighter coordination between Party inspection bodies and judicial agencies. Moving forward under the 14th Party Congress, Le Minh Tri emphasized the need to reinforce Party leadership, uphold discipline, and implement a stricter yet humane legal framework that supports economic growth. He stressed the importance of legal and institutional reforms to close loopholes exploited by corrupt actors, eliminate regulatory deadlocks, and align with recent Politburo resolutions focused on legislative innovation and private sector development.

Prevention efforts will focus on strengthening transparency, expanding asset monitoring, and promoting cashless transactions. Empowering prosecutors to initiate lawsuits protecting public interests and encouraging voluntary cooperation for damage recovery are also priorities. The anti-corruption institutions must be efficient, with clear mandates from central to local levels, and policies should protect innovation while sanctioning irresponsibility. Le Minh Tri highlighted the need to foster a culture of integrity through education and to ensure anti-corruption bodies themselves maintain the highest ethical standards to effectively serve as guardians against corruption.

Bảo đảm cả nước không quá 3.000 dự án sử dụng vốn ngân sách trung ương

Ensuring the whole country has no more than 3,000 projects using central government budget funds

Dantri | Local Language | News | Jan. 23, 2026 | Regulation

On January 21, Minister of Finance Nguyễn Văn Thắng presented a paper at the Party’s 14th Congress outlining the need to perfect financial institutions and laws to support rapid and sustainable national development. The Ministry of Finance has actively contributed to removing bottlenecks by submitting key resolutions and issuing numerous legal documents to enhance economic competitiveness. Achievements include a 37.6% increase in registered enterprise capital since 2020, state budget revenues nearly 9.9 million billion VND, and significant growth in public investment and stock market capitalization.

Despite these successes, challenges remain such as aligning financial laws with technological advances, uneven policy implementation, inefficient capital use, and an underdeveloped capital market that has yet to become a primary channel for long-term economic capital. The government aims for an average GDP growth of 10% annually by 2030, reaching a per capita GDP of about 8,500 USD, with social investment capital around 40% of GDP.

To achieve these goals, the Ministry of Finance will prioritize issuing guiding documents for new laws early in 2026 and institutionalizing Party resolutions to drive economic component development. Emphasis will be placed on strengthening the state economy’s leading role, developing the private sector as the key growth driver, supporting cooperatives, and attracting foreign investment. An expansive fiscal policy closely coordinated with monetary and other policies will be pursued to ensure economic growth and financial stability.

A key strategy is restructuring public investment by improving efficiency, focusing resources on breakthrough projects, and limiting the number of central government budget-funded projects nationwide to no more than 3,000 to better leverage investment from other economic sectors. Additionally, stock market development will deepen to mobilize medium- and long-term capital effectively, including attracting international funds. The Ministry commits to advancing law enforcement and financial policies to ensure sustainable and synchronized economic growth in line with the Party’s 14th Congress objectives.

Vietnam aims for transformative growth rooted in self-reliance and unity

Vietnam Net - E | English | News | Jan. 23, 2026 | UndeterminedEconomic Growth

During a recent working session leading up to the 14th Congress, Vietnamese delegates engaged in detailed discussions on draft policy documents shaping the country's future development. Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh highlighted lessons from the previous government term and stressed the importance of institutionalizing the Party’s resolutions to generate new growth drivers. He emphasized economic development as the central goal, with balanced focus on national defense, foreign affairs, security, culture, and social welfare. The Prime Minister pointed to a shift from reactive governance to agile, science-based policy implementation, citing Vietnam’s successful COVID-19 vaccine campaign and responses to global challenges as examples of this new approach. Looking ahead, he reaffirmed the ambition for double-digit economic growth by 2030, requiring bold reforms, strong project execution, and a dynamic mindset.

Deputy Prime Minister Mai Van Chinh underscored “self-reliance and resilience” as key principles underpinning Vietnam’s sustainable rise, aiming to reduce external dependency. He stressed that party documents must be concise, actionable, and clearly assign responsibilities, resources, and outcomes. National defense strategy should clarify allies and challenges while promoting dual-use defense industries to integrate economic and strategic interests. Delegates highlighted the need for concrete growth targets such as per capita income and the Human Development Index, and emphasized strengthening agriculture as a strategic sector with increased public investment to leverage private and foreign capital.

The focus on innovation, sustainability, and technology-driven growth was significant. Delegates from Ho Chi Minh City urged policies to elevate labor productivity, science and technology contributions, and green development. They highlighted Vietnam’s current overreliance on low-value manufacturing and called for digital economy strategies centered on AI, digital governance, and the digital society as new growth engines. Environmental concerns, especially water security and marine resource protection in the Mekong Delta, were also raised. Supporters of shifting towards knowledge-based, innovation-driven growth noted the intensifying global competition in technology and cyberspace and advocated for building strategic autonomy through knowledge power and coordinated diplomacy.

Central to the discussions was the role of the people as the foundation of Vietnam’s strength. Delegates called for clearer policy articulation on empowering citizens as agents of change and for detailed implementation plans to foster national unity and solidarity. Overall, the draft documents were seen as reflecting collective intelligence and will, providing a political foundation as Vietnam embarks on an era characterized by self-reliance, transformative growth, and national pride.

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