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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 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.

Làm dự án Sông Hồng, công ty địa ốc của tỷ phú Trần Bá Dương tăng vốn mạnh

By undertaking the Red River project, billionaire Trần Bá Dương's real estate company significantly increases capital

Dantri | Local Language | News | Jan. 23, 2026 | UndeterminedReal Estate

Dai Quang Minh Real Estate Investment Joint Stock Company, led by billionaire Trần Bá Dương, increased its registered capital from VND 18,200 billion to VND 19,158 billion in early 2026. The capital increase is entirely from domestic private sources with no foreign shareholders and marks the company’s first capital boost in 2026 following three consecutive increases in 2025 that raised capital from VND 10,920 billion to VND 18,200 billion. This latest capital level surpasses major real estate firms like Khang Điền, Becamex Group, and Kinh Bắc, bringing Dai Quang Minh close to Novaland and behind only Vinhomes.

The capital raise coincides with the unexpected return of Mr. Trần Đăng Khoa, also known as "Khoa the hoarse," as Chairman of the Board, replacing Mr. Trần Bá Dương. Mr. Khoa is a well-known figure in the real estate sector and was the company’s founder and first chairman before 2016. Dai Quang Minh is noted for pioneering projects such as the Sala urban area in Thu Thiem.

The company recently initiated the Red River landscape boulevard project, a major development with an estimated investment of about VND 855,000 billion under a public-private partnership model. The project covers around 11,000 hectares distributed across four independent components and spans 19 communes and wards in Hanoi, from Hong Ha Bridge to Me So Bridge.

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Ordering domestic enterprises to participate in key national projects

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

Acting Minister of Industry and Trade Lê Mạnh Hùng highlighted significant economic achievements during the 2021-2025 term, with the Industry and Trade sector playing a strategic role in national development. Industrial production saw strong recovery and growth, particularly in processing and manufacturing industries, driving industrialization, modernization, and progress towards autonomy, connectivity, green transition, digital transformation, and international integration.

However, challenges remain, including low technological autonomy, limited development of foundational industries and source technologies, lagging labor productivity, and slow adoption of green and smart production methods. The country faces a new era emphasizing science, technology, innovation, green transition, digital transformation, and deep international integration.

To advance industrial and commercial development, the Ministry aims to focus on completing institutions and policies, promoting a dual transition combining green initiatives with energy security, developing autonomous supply chains, linking domestic and foreign-invested enterprises, increasing localization, and involving domestic enterprises in key national projects. The sector will also enhance trade remedy capacity, leverage free trade agreements, and accelerate administrative and public service reforms by simplifying procedures and lowering compliance costs.

Development solutions proposed include leading major policy improvements toward autonomy, modernization, green transition, and digital transformation, innovating legal frameworks to support development, mobilizing resources for infrastructure development, and strengthening domestic enterprises comprehensively. The Ministry emphasizes proactive, effective international economic integration linked to enhancing economic autonomy and sustainable growth. The sector commits to shifting from a management mindset to one of creation, supporting enterprises to turn challenges posed by greening and digitization into opportunities for national development.

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