The Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) reported that in 2025, the science and expertise sector achieved a complete revenue of about $216 billion, contributing $57 billion on to the nationwide GDP. This sector has change into one of many key engines of Vietnam’s financial progress.
Deputy Minister Bui Hoang Phuong on the 2026 planning convention of the Ministry of Science and Technology.
On December 26, the Ministry held its 2026 planning convention, marking a historic milestone in its organizational construction. Since March 2025, the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Information and Communications formally merged to kind a brand new, unified Ministry of Science and Technology-integrating all pillars of science, expertise, innovation, and digital transformation.
Deputy Minister Bui Hoang Phuong famous that inside simply ten months because the merger, the Ministry had submitted to the Government and the National Assembly 10 new legal guidelines and one decision for approval.
Institutional reform: “the breakthrough of breakthroughs”
According to Deputy Minister Bui Hoang Phuong, 2025 witnessed a basic shift in the ministry’s strategy to policymaking and institutional improvement.
Following the implementation of Resolution 57, the ministry’s work on authorized and institutional frameworks advanced from a administration mindset to a constructive and enabling one. The institutional system grew to become “the breakthrough of breakthroughs,” serving because the cornerstone for science, expertise, innovation, and digital transformation to change into real drivers of nationwide progress.
In ten months after the merger, the Ministry submitted to the Government 23 decrees, 16 resolutions, 41 selections, and one Prime Minister directive, whereas issuing 50 circulars to information implementation. These authorized paperwork helped resolve long-standing coverage bottlenecks, establishing a complete authorized hall protecting key strategic pillars: science and expertise, innovation, postal companies, telecommunications, digital industries, synthetic intelligence, excessive expertise, nuclear power, requirements and high quality, expertise switch, and mental property.
2025 highlights: The rise of 5G and digital infrastructure
Deputy Minister Bui Hoang Phuong said that in 2025, the science and expertise sector achieved $216 billion in revenue, up 25% year-on-year, fulfilling 122% of the annual plan. It contributed $4.55 billion to the state price range (up 11%) and $57 billion on to GDP (up 35%), exceeding targets throughout all metrics.
For the primary time, Vietnam launched a National List of Strategic Technologies and Products, shifting from research-led to problem-led innovation-identifying real-world challenges, designing options, and discovering new applied sciences from them.
The Ministry additionally launched the National Innovation Portal and a real-time on-line administration system for science and expertise initiatives, whereas the National Science and Technology Exchange was launched as a “connecting bridge” linking analysis, manufacturing, and the market nationwide.
In 2025, Vietnam ranked forty fourth out of 139 nations in the Global Innovation Index and fifty fifth out of 100 globally in the Startup Ecosystem Index.
Vietnam’s digital transformation achieved outstanding progress as digital infrastructure, nationwide databases, and shared platforms have been established synchronously. These developments laid a agency basis for the “digital nation” mannequin and contributed decisively to the implementation of the two-tier native authorities mannequin.
The postal sector maintained excessive progress regardless of financial headwinds, with 4.2 billion parcels delivered (up 26.6% from 2024) and $3.45 billion in revenue (up 19.1%).
In telecommunications, 5G protection reached over 90% of the inhabitants, and glued web speeds averaged 271.95 Mbps, inserting Vietnam in the worldwide prime 10. The nation remained second in ASEAN with greater than 680,000 domains, whereas 26.45 million digital signature certificates have been issued-12.56 million of them in 2025 alone, matching the whole issued over the earlier decade mixed.
In the digital expertise trade, over 80,000 enterprises are actually lively, with 2,100 increasing internationally. Many corporations have begun designing and manufacturing strategic tech merchandise domestically, strengthening Vietnam’s place as a key hub for digital industries and innovation-driven progress.
Focus for 2026: Attracting expertise and implementing main insurance policies
Looking forward to 2026, Deputy Minister Bui Hoang Phuong emphasised that the science and expertise sector will concentrate on foundational and strategic missions with broad, long-term affect to advertise fast and sustainable progress.
MOST will function the standing physique of the Government Steering Committee for the implementation of Resolution 57 and can proceed refining institutional frameworks. It will make sure the efficient rollout of the ten new legal guidelines handed in 2025, with all implementing paperwork issued by the primary quarter of 2026, permitting the brand new insurance policies to take impact swiftly.
The ministry will speed up the completion of nationwide digital platforms and shared databases to make sure interconnectivity and environment friendly administration for socio-economic improvement. The aim is for 100% of administrative procedures to be performed on-line.
“The Ministry will implement incentive policies to attract and retain high-quality human resources,” Deputy Minister Phuong stated. “We will assign major national science and technology projects to capable young scientists and engineers, while proactively inviting overseas Vietnamese and international experts to participate in key programs under flexible, globally aligned mechanisms.”
Thai Khang