Ho Chi Minh City targets GRDP growth of 8.5% in 2025

On August 26, the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee issued a plan to promote socio-economic growth in the last months of 2025. This plan sets an ambitious goal: ensuring that Ho Chi Minh City successfully achieves the growth target of 8.5% or more in 2025. In particular, growth in the last 6 months of 2025 must reach 10.3%. This goal aims to create a solid foundation to contribute to promoting double-digit growth in the period of 2026 - 2030.

According to the Plan, to complete the goal, the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee requires agencies and units to continue to synchronously and effectively implement the Resolutions and Conclusions of the Central Committee, the City Party Committee, and the City People's Council. The City will effectively promote the new, breakthrough mechanisms and policies that have been issued. Ensure the smooth and effective operation of the two-level government. Promote administrative reform, build a team of grassroots cadres with good qualities and capacity.

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The city also promptly and effectively implemented policies on tax, fee and land rent exemption, reduction and extension. Along with that, it is necessary to thoroughly reform and minimize administrative procedures and compliance costs. It is necessary to end the situation of prolonged processing time through many agencies and units. This is to support people and businesses, promote production, business, tourism and consumption.

Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee emphasized the solution to promote growth momentum from social investment. Accelerate disbursement of public investment capital, take public investment as the leading factor, and activate all social resources. Heads of assigned agencies and units must have feasible and effective solutions to attract and mobilize capital. Ensure disbursement of 100% of the state budget investment capital plan in 2025.

The city focuses on rapidly developing high value-added service industries, the city's strengths. Promoting exports, developing trade. Promoting consumption, effectively exploiting the domestic market and attracting tourists. Ho Chi Minh City also determines to promote new growth drivers. Focusing on developing science and technology, innovation, digital transformation, and high-quality human resources.

According to the Ho Chi Minh City Institute for Development Studies, achieving the growth target of 8% - 8.5% in 2025 is a big challenge. Especially in the context of complicated global economic developments. The Institute pointed out that growth in the third quarter of 2025 must reach 10.38%, the fourth quarter must reach 10.5% and the last 6 months of the year must reach 10.44%. This scenario is similar to the one developed by the City Statistics Office.

Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Council Vo Van Minh emphasized that the City needs to prioritize strongly promoting economic growth and firmly adhere to the set target of GRDP growth of 8.5% in 2025.

Source: https://thoidai.com.vn/tp-ho-chi-minh-dat-muc-tieu-tang-truong-grdp-85-nam-2025-215839.html