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On the evening of January 10, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired an online conference with Ambassadors and Heads of Vietnamese Representative Agencies abroad to summarize economic diplomacy work in 2025 and deploy tasks in 2026. Download Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired an online conference with Ambassadors and Heads of Vietnamese Representative Agencies abroad to summarize economic diplomacy work in 2025 and deploying tasks in 2026 - Photo: VGP/Nhat Bac Also attending were Deputy Prime Minister Bui Thanh Son; Ministers, Heads of ministerial-level agencies and Government agencies; leaders of ministries and branches; Ambassadors and Heads of Vietnamese Representative Agencies abroad; leaders of localities, associations, and businesses. The conference assessed that in 2025, the economic and political situation in the world and region will become complicated, with many difficulties and challenges affecting Vietnam. Economic diplomacy work has closely followed the guiding documents of the Party, State, Government, and Prime Minister and achieved outstanding results. Within the framework of 75 foreign affairs activities of key leaders, Vietnam has upgraded relations with 17 countries, signed signing 350 cooperation agreements, 2.5 times more than in 2024. Thereby strengthening connections and attracting external resources to serve the implementation of socio-economic development goals, improving adaptability to fluctuations in the economy and international trade. Vietnam maintains and strengthens leading export markets, attracts investment in a sustainable manner and improves efficiency; creating breakthroughs in a number of new, potential markets such as Latin America, Middle East - Africa, Central Asia, Central Eastern Europe. Thanks to that, Vietnam belongs to the group of 15 largest trading countries in the world, with a total import-export turnover exceeding the 900 billion USD mark. The work of promoting Vietnamese brands and products has changed dramatically; Tourism advertising and promotion work is focused, with many diverse activities, achieving impressive results, positively contributing to the growth of the service and tourism sectors. The total number of international visitors to Vietnam in 2025 will reach nearly 21.2 million, an increase of 20.4% over the previous year and 17.8% higher than in 2019 before the epidemic. Download Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh assessed that economic diplomacy achieved important results of transforming the state, turning the situation around - Photo: VGP/Nhat Bac In 2025, more than 70 cooperation documents at the Government level, ministries and branches and cooperation between businesses, institutes, schools and localities have been signed in many fields of science and technology, especially shaping and promoting strategic cooperation frameworks and agreements with centers. leading science and technology center. Successfully connecting many leading technology corporations to Vietnam, promoting a number of important investment projects. Support Vietnamese technology businesses to connect, cooperate and reach out to foreign markets. Establish and strengthen networks of Vietnamese intellectuals abroad, including building a plan to introduce 100 leading experts to work in the country, gathering data on Vietnamese experts, intellectuals, and businessmen abroad. Vietnamese representative agencies abroad have deployed nearly 500 economic diplomacy activities to promote trade, investment, and tourism; Support localities to organize more than 150 trade and investment promotion activities at home and abroad; Support provinces and cities to sign about 100 agreements with international partners. Along with evaluating outstanding results and achievements, especially valuable experiences and good lessons that need to be replicated; difficulties and limitations that need to be overcome..., delegates focused on analyzing and forecasting the world situation, affecting Vietnam to proactively respond, promote economic diplomacy, serve the countrys development, especially contributing to achieving the goal of double-digit growth in the coming time. Download Deputy Prime Minister Bui Thanh Son spoke at the Conference - Photo: VGP/Nhat BacThe delegates proposed to continue promoting economic, trade, investment, science and technology cooperation, especially strategic, comprehensive, and comprehensive strategic partnerships; creating breakthroughs in trade, investment, labor, tourism and international cooperation in science and technology; Prioritize support for localities and businesses to improve the effectiveness of international economic integration; promoting and raising the level of multilateral diplomacy, promoting international economic integration... Concluding the conference, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh assessed that economic diplomacy achieved important results of transforming the state, turning the situation around, summarized by the proposition: Proactive - Expanded market - Improved quality - Clear efficiency - Economic growth - People benefit. Download Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Minister of Foreign Affairs Le Hoai Trung spoke at the Conference - Photo: VGP/Nhat BacAnalyze and prove with numbers and specific evidence; At the same time, clearly pointing out lessons learned, the Prime Minister said that from 2026 onwards, our country must achieve the double-digit growth target, so all levels, sectors, localities, and economic sectors must have double-digit growth.With the motto unity to create strength, cooperation to gain benefits, dialogue to enhance trust, diplomacy in general and economic diplomacy in particular must be sincere with the spirit of harmonious benefits and shared risks, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh directed ministries, branches, localities, agencies, businesses, and Vietnamese representative agencies in countries to drastically concretize and implement well the guidelines and policies of the Party and State, es
