To boost the rapid and sustainable development of the Red River Delta region

Comrade Pham Minh Chinh, Politburo member, Prime Minister, Chairman of the Red River Delta Region Coordinating Council, chaired the Council's sixth meeting - Photo: VGP/Nhat Bac

Comrades: Nguyen Huu Nghia, Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Hung Yen Provincial Party Committee; Nguyen Khac Than, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Hung Yen Provincial People's Committee and leaders of the provinces and cities in the Red River Delta region such as: Hanoi, Hai Phong, Quang Ninh, Bac Ninh, Ninh Binh attended the conference.

The 6th Conference of the Red River Delta Region Coordinating Council - Photo: VGP/Nhat Bac

This is the first conference of the Council after localities in the region completed the merger of provincial-level administrative units according to the Resolution of the National Assembly and implemented the 2-tier local government model from July 1, 2025.

Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Chi Dung at the Conference - Photo: VGP/Nhat Bac

To affirm the leading position of the country in many fields

The reports and opinions at the Conference unanimously assessed the position and outstanding achievements of the Red River Delta region, this is a particularly important strategic area in terms of politics, economy, culture, society, national defense and security of the whole country, one of the two most dynamic economic regions in Vietnam, an important growth pole, playing a decisive role in the development of the whole country.

After the merger, the region includes six localities: Hanoi City, Hai Phong City, Quang Ninh, Hung Yen, Bac Ninh, Ninh Binh, all of which are economic locomotives and growth poles of the region and the country.

In the face of difficulties and challenges from the international and domestic situation, the Red River Delta economy still achieved positive results. The economic growth rate (GRDP) of the Region in the first 6 months of 2025 reached 9.32%, higher than the national average (7.52%) and leading among the 6 economic regions. In particular, many localities have made strong breakthroughs, achieving double-digit growth rates such as Hai Phong (11.2%), Quang Ninh (11%), Bac Ninh (10.5%), Ninh Binh (10.8%).

The Red River Delta region continues to affirm its leading position in the country in many fields. The region is a bright spot in attracting foreign direct investment (FDI), reaching 5.4 billion USD in the first 8 months of 2025, accounting for 49.2% of the total registered capital of the country. Of which, Bac Ninh leads the country in attracting new FDI capital, followed by Hai Phong, Hung Yen and Ninh Binh.

The region leads in state budget revenue, with the highest total revenue among economic regions, reaching over 814.6 trillion VND in the first 8 months of 2025 (accounting for 46.8% of the total revenue of the country). Hanoi leads the whole region, ranks the second in the country with 473.4 trillion VND, followed by Hai Phong and Hung Yen.

Comrade Nguyen Huu Nghia, Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Hung Yen Provincial Party Committee, speaks at the conference.

The region leads in export turnover with 129.3 billion USD, accounting for about 32.5% of the country's export turnover. Some localities in the region have good export growth rates compared to the same period, such as: Bac Ninh (57.3 billion USD, up 27.2%) ranked the second in the country (after Ho Chi Minh City), Hai Phong (31.8 billion USD, up 6.25%), Hanoi (13.8 billion USD, up 10.3%), Quang Ninh (2.6 billion USD, up 15.1%).

The region is a pioneer in disbursing public investment capital, the disbursement rate of the region reached 53.6% of the assigned plan, higher than the national average (about 46.3%). The areas with high disbursement rates are: Ninh Binh 90.5% (ranked the 3rd in the country), Bac Ninh 64.6% (ranked the 7th in the country).

The region also made a breakthrough in the service sector, with a good recovery trend. In particular, the tourism industry is a bright spot with high growth rates: Hanoi (up 20.9%), Quang Ninh (up 17.2%).

Leading in business development, the Red River Delta is the second most dynamic region after the Southeast region. In the first 8 months of 2025, the number of newly established enterprises was nearly 42,800, accounting for 33.3% of the country, with a registered capital of 512.6 trillion VND, accounting for 40.8% of the total capital of the country.

However, the current development model of the Region is still not commensurate with its potential; strong enough value chains and industry clusters have not been formed; the coordination and implementation of tasks still have shortcomings; the performance progress of some key projects and regional linkages is still slow...

The opinions at the Conference agreed that the Red River Delta, as a strategic area of ​​the whole country, must become a pioneering region, taking the lead in concretizing the important Resolutions of the Politburo that have just been issued, in order to create new momentum and breakthroughs for the country's development in the coming period.

To promote the role of the most important driving force of the country

In his concluding remarks, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, Chairman of the Council, highly appreciated the Ministry of Finance, the Government Office, ministries, branches and localities in the Red River Delta region for their close coordination and careful preparation to organize the Conference; welcomed the reports and frank, enthusiastic and practical comments of the delegates and assigned the Ministry of Finance and the Government Office to absorb the comments and promptly submit the Notice of Conclusion for unified implementation in the coming time.

Generally assessing after nearly 9 months of 2025 with many indicators of the region leading in the socio-economic regions of the whole country, on behalf of the Government, the Prime Minister acknowledged, highly appreciated and commended the efforts and results achieved by Party committees at all levels, authorities, business communiy and all people in the region in the past time, making important contributions to the overall achievements of the country.

The Prime Minister suggested that, with its role, position, unique potential, outstanding opportunities, and competitive advantages, the Region need to promote the '3 pioneers' - Photo: VGP/Nhat Bac

The Prime Minister analyzed three lessons learned from past practices: (1) Ministries, agencies, and localities, based on their functions, tasks, and powers, must actively and proactively implement the Party's guidelines and policies, the State's policies and laws, resolutions, conclusions, leadership, and direction of the Central Committee, the Politburo, the General Secretary, key leaders, the National Assembly, the Government, and the Prime Minister; (2) Grasp the domestic and foreign situations, and the situation in the region to promptly provide appropriate, flexible, proactive, and effective solutions in responding to emerging issues; (3) Be proactive and creative in boosting regional linkages in economics, culture, education, health, trade, investment, especially infrastructure.

The Prime Minister suggested that, with its role, position, unique potential, outstanding opportunities, and competitive advantages, the region needs to promote the '3 pioneers'.

Firstly, pioneer, take the lead, and make breakthroughs in rapid and sustainable development, improve the material and spiritual life of the people.

Secondly, pioneer, take the lead, and set an example in restructuring the economy towards increasing the proportion of industry and services; transforming the growth model towards green, digital, circular, based on science, technology, and innovation.

Thirdly, pioneer in building and operating a two-tier local government towards creating development, serving the people, strengthening and consolidating the trust and efficiency of domestic and foreign investors.

To effectively promote the above '3 pioneers', the Prime Minister emphasized a number of key tasks and solutions in the coming time.

Firstly, based on the conclusions of the Politburo, under the direction of Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Chi Dung, the Ministry of Finance and the Government Office proposed to amend and supplement the regulations and operating rules of the Regional Councils, perfect the Councils; propose to the Politburo and the National Assembly the contents related to the development mechanism, regional coordination activities with new thinking and ways of doing things.

Secondly, ministries, branches and localities reviewed institutional bottlenecks related to all fields, especially land, minerals, resources, auction bidding, investment, regional linkages, infrastructure development, etc. to report to the Government and the Prime Minister, assigned the Ministry of Finance and the Government Office to synthesize, report and propose to the National Assembly in the upcoming 10th Session.

Comrade Nguyen Huu Nghia, Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Hung Yen Provincial Party Committee and delegates attend the conference.

Comrade Nguyen Khac Than, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Hung Yen Provincial People's Committee and delegates attend the conference.

Thirdly, regarding infrastructure development, especially in transport, telecommunications, energy, culture, education, sports, health, etc., the Prime Minister noted the development of each locality while linking together to exploit shared infrastructure the most effectively.

Fourthly, regarding resources, especially common construction materials to serve key projects, the Prime Minister emphasized the need to thoroughly grasp the viewpoint that resources are owned by the entire people, the State is the representative owner, so the use, allocation, and determination of prices are made by the State according to the principles of developing a socialist-oriented market economy under the leadership of the Party and under the management of the State; not allowing the situation of handing over common construction material mines to the private sector and then allowing hoarding and price hikes to occur.

Delegates attend the Conference - Photo: VGP/Nhat Bac

Fifthly, regarding planning, the Ministry of Finance proactively listens to and absorbs local opinions to supplement and perfect the planning; the Prime Minister stated that there must be both national and regional planning, as well as sectoral and local planning, and each level, sector and agency must be responsible according to their authority, promote decentralization, and eliminate cumbersome procedures.

Sixthly, in terms of resources, the Prime Minister requested to boost revenue increase, save expenditure, cut unnecessary expenditure, reduce the proportion of regular expenditure, increase the proportion of development investment; promote the mobilization of public-private partnership resources, effectively implement Resolution 68 of the Politburo and the Resolution of the National Assembly on private economic development; creatively apply BT and BOT mechanisms in infrastructure development; strongly mobilize total social investment, ensure equal access to the country's resources; clear land according to regulations, planning, and progress of large projects, separate land clearance into separate projects.

Seventhly, strongly beef up the development of science and technology, innovation, digital transformation, thoroughly grasp, seriously implement and creatively apply Resolution 57 of the Politburo, resolutions of the National Assembly and the Government.

Eighthly, urgently handle backlogged and prolonged projects to free up resources; actively and proactively resolve problems related to procedures, planning, bidding, auctions, etc.

Ninthly, effectively resolve environmental issues; do a good job of social security; develop cultural and entertainment industries; connect, promote and effectively exploit heritage roads in the region. The Prime Minister noted that, promoting the results of eliminating temporary and dilapidated houses in the past time, it is necessary to continue to increase the supply of housing, real estate projects, especially developing social housing, etc. because this is an area with a very large demand for housing and social housing; localities are proactive and issue policies according to their authority.

Tenthly, proactively bolster the connection between localities in the region and with other regions, expand international connections, in which Quang Ninh immediately deploys a Cross-Border Economic Cooperation Zone to connect with the large Chinese market.

Eleventhly, promote smart governance and people, accelerate digital transformation, apply artificial intelligence, identify people and staff as decisive factors.

The Prime Minister emphasized the determination to turn the Red River Delta region into one of the most important driving forces of the country, together with the Southeast region to create momentum and inspiration for other regions, contributing to promoting rapid and sustainable growth of the country in the coming period.