The 2025 Autumn Economic Forum promotes the economic capacity of the new Ho Chi Minh City to the world.

Ho Chi Minh City hopes that the experiences and international cooperation gained from the Autumn Economic Forum 2025 will effectively contribute to the city's upcoming economic agenda.

From left to right: Director of the Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution in Ho Chi Minh City Le Truong Duy; Vice Chairman of the City People's Committee Nguyen Loc Ha; Deputy Director of the Department of Foreign Affairs Tran Xuan Thuy attended the forum press conference - Photo: THANH HIEP

On November 14, Ho Chi Minh City held a press conference to announce the Autumn Economic Forum 2025, with the theme “Green transformation in the digital age”. Under the direct direction of Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, this forum of Ho Chi Minh City is also special with the attention and in-depth organization of the World Economic Forum (WEF).

Promoting the economic capacity of Ho Chi Minh City

Mr. Nguyen Loc Ha - Vice Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee, also Head of the Forum Organizing Committee - affirmed that with the above theme, the forum takes place at a pivotal time in the national development process and at a time when the world is shifting to a new competitive structure: technological competition, innovation capacity, and green and sustainable standards.

“Any country that is able to master technology, master data, and restructure production in a green and digital direction will have the leading advantage; on the contrary, countries that are slow to change will fall behind,” said Mr. Nguyen Loc Ha.

Accordingly, the forum will be an opportunity for Ho Chi Minh City, after expanding its development space, to demonstrate its ability to transform itself to match the role of a national central metropolis.

The Autumn Economic Forum 2025 will not only discuss green transformation and digital transformation, but will also demonstrate the city’s ability to “implement dual transformation” on a real scale, and in areas where Vietnam can create new competitive advantages.

These areas range from smart manufacturing, low-carbon logistics, digital urban services, to open innovation and piloting new mechanisms.

“The economic scale of Ho Chi Minh City accounts for 1/4 of the country, and the budget revenue accounts for 1/3. Therefore, we must promote our economic capacity to countries, investors, and world businesses,” the Vice Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee emphasized to Tuoi Tre Online .

World Economic Forum engages in deep cooperation

Vice Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee Nguyen Loc Ha speaks at the press conference - Photo: THANH HIEP

According to information from Mr. Le Truong Duy - Director of the Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC C4IR), the Autumn Economic Forum 2025 in Ho Chi Minh City for the first time has the deep participation and co-organization of the World Economic Forum.

Apart from the forums officially organized by WEF in countries, this unit has rarely participated in accompanying the organization with a specific locality or country, and the Autumn Economic Forum 2025 is one of those rare occasions.

This forum also has carefully prepared outputs to turn discussions into actions contributing to the development of Ho Chi Minh City as well as Vietnam.

According to Mr. Duy, Ho Chi Minh City and WEF are expected to issue a joint statement at the forum. In addition, the forum may also announce support packages for businesses implementing digital transformation and smart transformation.

Mr. Stephan Mergenthaler, Managing Director of WEF, and leaders of WEF departments and centers will directly attend and co-organize many activities at the forum, such as Talkshow with young people of Ho Chi Minh City, plenary sessions, discussion sessions, along with a luncheon with Government leaders and participation in a high-level policy dialogue with the Prime Minister of Vietnam.

Many news agencies attended the press conference of the Autumn Economic Forum 2025 - Photo: THANH HIEP

In addition, the Government and Ho Chi Minh City also officially invited leaders of governments of countries, leaders of ministries, branches, localities, and international organizations, along with more than 500 high-ranking guests from innovation centers, international organizations, universities, research institutes and multinational corporations.

In addition to WEF, the forum also has the participation of prestigious international organizations and institutions such as UNESCO, World Bank (WB), Asian Development Bank (ADB), International Monetary Fund (IMF), International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Centers for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (C4IR) in the WEF global network...

On the Vietnamese side, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and Deputy Prime Minister Bui Thanh Son, along with leaders of central ministries, branches, Ho Chi Minh City and localities, will directly attend activities within the framework of the forum.

Many outstanding activities at the Autumn Economic Forum 2025

Held at Thiskyhall Sala (An Khanh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City), the Autumn Economic Forum 2025 will feature many high-level activities throughout the three days of November 25, 26 and 27.

Opening the series of activities on November 25, WEF Executive Director Stephan Mergenthaler directly shared and inspired young people, the young business community and startups about the global vision in promoting green - digital transformation and developing a smart economy at the talk show "Intelligent Generation NOW".

In the afternoon of the same day, the CEO500 Tea Party - Tea Connect took place, a high-level dialogue space between the Vietnamese Government and the city with more than 500 domestic and international business leaders.

On November 26, Government leaders and high-ranking delegates will have lunch and discuss the topic "Cooperation for green goals in the digital age towards a smart economy". In the afternoon, the Prime Minister of Vietnam and WEF leaders will have a high-level policy dialogue on the topic "Science and technology shaping Vietnam in the era of development".

November 27 will be a day of activities focusing on connecting, experiencing and enhancing international cooperation. Ho Chi Minh City will also have the opportunity to introduce outstanding businesses, as well as the technology and innovation ecosystem that is developing strongly in Vietnam in general and in the city in particular, to connect investment and enhance cooperation between parties.

These activities demonstrate the city's commitment to long-term cooperation with the international community, while honoring the spirit of connection - innovation - integration, making the Autumn Economic Forum an international dialogue event with regional influence.

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Source: https://tuoitre.vn/dien-dan-kinh-te-mua-thu-2025-quang-ba-nang-luc-kinh-te-cua-tp-hcm-moi-ra-the-gioi-20251114114906961.htm