17-year-old male student won the championship of VNG Code Tour 2025

DNVN - Nguyen Xuan Chi Thanh, a 12th grade IT student at the High School for Gifted Students in Natural Sciences (Hanoi National University) defeated 60 opponents to become the final champion of Code Tour 2025.

After more than 5 weeks of intense competition with 3 qualifying rounds and the final round (November 1) in online format, the results of the biggest programming competition of the year of the "technology unicorn" VNG were officially announced on November 13, 2025. The championship title belongs to Nguyen Xuan Chi Thanh, while Vo Thanh Hai and Nguyen Anh Dung are the 2 contestants who won the second prize and third prize respectively.

Science and technology are being heavily invested in, aiming to become one of the pillars of Vietnam's digital economy .

Code Tour was formerly known as Saigon Code Tour, an open programming competition initiated by VNG for technology enthusiasts in Ho Chi Minh City. After 7 years of organization, Code Tour has increasingly affirmed its reputation, attracting the programming community nationwide with more than 10,000 registered contestants. This year's season alone, Code Tour recorded an impressive number of more than 5,100 registered contestants, of which 118 contestants achieved a perfect score of 100/100.

VNG representative said that Code Tour is one of the key "pieces" in the group's human resource development strategy, aiming to create a professional playground associated with technology practice for the technology community. In particular, this year is also the first time VNG has coordinated with Ho Chi Minh City National University (HCM VNU) to co-organize the competition, aiming to promote the strength of connecting Schools - Enterprises in training high-quality technology human resources with "real-life" capabilities in the market.

Previously, in May 2025, VNG and VNU-HCM signed a strategic cooperation agreement, aiming to train at least 1,000 students through joint programs and committed to investing VND25 billion in research and development (R&D) activities in the next three years.

Science and technology are being heavily invested in, aiming to become one of the pillars of Vietnam's digital economy. However, this field is seriously lacking high-quality human resources. According to reports, by 2025, Vietnam will need about 700,000 IT workers, while the current training system can only meet the needs of about 500,000 people. Notably, nearly 70% of graduates are assessed as not having enough capacity to immediately enter the labor market due to a lack of practical skills and practical experience.

Faced with this reality, the Government has identified the “3-house” cooperation model – State, School and Enterprise – as the core strategic triangle in the national innovation ecosystem. Many leading technology enterprises such as VNG are proactively investing in young human resources through training cooperation models with universities, organizing professional competitions, internal internship and training programs, and national-scale technology playgrounds.

Nguyen Huy

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