Removing barriers for businesses

According to a report by the General Statistics Office (Ministry of Finance), in the first 9 months of 2025, the number of newly established enterprises is on an upward trend, with 145,000 newly registered enterprises nationwide, an increase of 18.9% over the same period in 2024.

Sewing export clothes at Hoa Thi Garment Factory, Quang Ngai province.

In particular, up to 86,400 enterprises returned to operation, an increase of 41.3% over the same period in 2024, bringing the total number of newly established and re-operated enterprises in the first 9 months of 2025 to more than 231,300 enterprises, an increase of 26.4% over the same period in 2024. However, there were also up to 99,500 enterprises temporarily suspending business, an increase of 14.5% over the same period in 2024; 53,200 enterprises stopped operating pending dissolution procedures, a decrease of 13.5%; 22,300 enterprises completed dissolution procedures, an increase of 45%. This shows that enterprises continue to face many challenges.

The main reason is identified as fierce competitive pressure from e-commerce and online platforms, making traditional business models difficult. In addition, the average registered capital remains low, around VND9 billion, without any breakthrough, reflecting the limited internal strength of enterprises. The Provincial Competitiveness Index (PCI) Report 2024 pointed out that there is an alarming situation when the trend of unofficial costs shows signs of returning; the dynamism of local governments is declining; businesses show signs of recovery, but the scale of production and business has not yet returned to pre-Covid-19 pandemic levels and continues to face many new challenges.

In addition, many businesses still report that business registration and investment licensing procedures are complicated, especially in areas such as land, environment and tax. Although administrative procedures have been digitized at many steps, during the implementation process, there are still cases where documents must be submitted multiple times and inter-sectoral transfers are slow. Not to mention, the overlap between laws such as the Investment Law, Enterprise Law and related Decrees is leading to the emergence of "sub-licenses", causing a lot of time loss and increasing compliance costs, reducing the competitiveness of businesses.

Recently, the Politburo issued Resolution No. 72-NQ/TW dated September 9, 2025 on a number of breakthrough solutions in protecting, caring for and improving people's health and devoted a section to affirming the position and role of the private health sector in the development strategy of the national health system. However, according to the reflection of the Chairman of the Vietnam Private Hospital Association Nguyen Van De, Resolution No. 282/NQ-CP dated September 15, 2025 of the Government and the Draft Law on Land Amendment have not specifically mentioned and institutionalized the non-collection of land use fees, reduction of land rent and land tax for domestic medical facilities as in the spirit of Resolution No. 72-NQ/TW. This deprives investors of their rights and reduces the investment motivation of the medical business community.

According to Ms. Thai Huong, Founder, Chairwoman of the TH Group Strategy Council, General Director of Bac A Commercial Joint Stock Bank, the State needs to develop appropriate mechanisms and policies for each stage and industry and have clear instructions to ensure effective implementation, avoiding causing difficulties for businesses during the application process. For example, the regulation that farms must be built 200 meters away from houses, at the time of construction, TH Group was 270 meters away, but now it is "retroactive", requiring a distance of 400 meters. When asked for a solution, ministries, departments and branches did not give specific instructions but only said "must do it according to the law", causing confusion for businesses in compliance.

Therefore, to remove difficulties and promote development motivation for enterprises, ministries, branches and localities need to focus on creating a favorable and synchronous business environment, including: promoting reforms in the spirit of Resolution No. 02/NQ-CP and Resolution No. 66/NQ-CP of 2025 of the Government; continuing to review, reduce and simplify administrative procedures that have been reflected and identified, in order to eliminate overlaps between legal documents;... At the same time, ministries, branches and localities need to promote decentralization and delegation of authority, not to let "sub-licenses" arise, cumbersome and duplicative regulations, and reduce compliance costs for enterprises.

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