While major economies navigate inflation pressures and supply chain volatility, Vietnam recorded an impressive 8.02% GDP growth in 2025. This performance reflects a country executing a remarkable transformation that treats digital infrastructure, industrial upgrading, and sustainability as integrated requirements for long-term competitiveness.
Building Economic Momentum Through Strategic Integration
Vietnam's GDP accelerated from just over 8% in 2025 to a projected annual rate exceeding 10% through 2030, outpacing every ASEAN economy in the same period. The US$38.4 billion in foreign direct investment recorded in 2025 represents capital flowing toward structural advantages: a widening network of strategic partnerships, technology transfer agreements, and supply chain infrastructure designed for long-term stability.
This year, Vietnam elevated to a comprehensive strategic partner with the U.K., New Zealand, Singapore, Indonesia, and Thailand, while deepening high-tech cooperation with France and the U.S. in semiconductors, aerospace, and education—markets and sectors where FPT already has established strong local footprints and global expertise.
In addition, Vietnam’s trade engagement with over 60 partners and participation in more than 70 international organizations reinforce its role as a connected, outward-looking economy.
The digital economy demonstrates how this connectivity converts into capability. In 2025, it is estimated to reach 14.02%, equivalent to approximately US$72.1 billion.
The country is also emerging as a regional innovation hub, ranking 44th out of 139 economies and ranking first globally in high-tech and creative goods exports as a percentage of total trade. This acceleration is underpinned by a strong talent base of over 560,000 software engineers and 60,000 ICT graduates annually, placing Vietnam among one of ASEAN’s leading hubs for business, technology, and data science skills. Yet as growth accelerates in emerging sectors like AI and semiconductors, Vietnam faces a structural gap in highly specialized talent, with a shortfall of nearly 200,000 IT professionals. In response, national efforts are reorienting talent development toward industry-aligned skills and strengthening collaboration with technology enterprises to accelerate workforce readiness. Contributing to this effort, FPT’s education system trains more than 152,000 students nationwide, cultivating high-quality human resources in these high-tech sectors.
FPT showcased its tech solutions to Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh
Vietnam's current transformation is anchored by Resolution 57, which establishes science, technology, innovation, and digital transformation as the primary levers for national competitiveness and sustained growth. Based on this strategic direction, Vietnam’s execution agenda can be elaborated through three reinforcing pillars.
- Digital economy: The focus is shifting from digitizing individual services to building a data-enabled operating model for government and society. Within 2025, the launch of the National Data Association and the digital government program are part of an effort to standardize data governance, improve interoperability, and reduce administrative friction.
- High-tech economy: Resolution 57 has elevated AI and semiconductors as strategic priorities, supported by updates to the national AI strategy and the establishment of AI training, research, and application centers. These efforts are reinforced by ecosystem initiatives such as FPT’s Âu Lạc AI Alliance, uniting tech firms, research institutes, and universities to advance AI capabilities, talent, and standards. In semiconductors, Vietnam is transitioning from assembly to innovation, with Da Nang emerging as a key hub through ecosystem investments, including packaging labs and FPT’s first high-tech and semiconductor R&D center, which strengthens research, engineering, and workforce development toward the 2030 talent target.
- Green economy: Committed to achieving Net-Zero emissions by 2050, Vietnam introduced national green taxonomy, creating standardized environmental criteria and verification requirements to classify eligible projects. The country also mandates greenhouse gas reporting for large enterprises, establishing a measurable framework that integrates sustainability into investment decisions and corporate strategy.
FPT: Accelerating Vietnam’s Technology Priorities
With Vietnam sharpening its national agenda under Resolution 57, FPT supports Vietnam’s digital economy through large-scale solutions across e-government, healthcare, transportation, and digital identity. Its recent establishment of a Strategic Technology Steering Committee integrates five core units spanning quantum AI, cybersecurity, unmanned systems, mobility technology, and digital platforms.
Chairman Truong Gia Binh announced FPT’s direction in the ceremony of the Strategic Human Resources Alliance for implementing Resolution 57
This structure is reinforced by a US$100 million investment in FPT’s Quantum AI and Cyber Security Research Institute, signaling a shift from short-cycle experimentation toward long-horizon capability building in advanced AI and next-generation security. The company is also expanding the physical footprint of AI research and applied development with Gia Lai AI Research Center, extending Vietnam’s AI talent development, experimentation, and technology deployment. Its AI factories in Japan and Vietnam, powered by NVIDIA H100 and H200 GPUs, were ranked among top 40 fastest supercomputers globally.
FPT's annual global client conference was hosted in August 2025 with a conference and exhibition themed “Accelerating Transformation in the AI Era”
As an AI-first company, FPT is embedding AI across the full solution lifecycle, from architecture and engineering to deployment and continuous optimization. This approach is anchored by FleziPT, FPT’s flagship AI platform designed to help enterprises build, deploy, and scale AI securely and efficiently. The company is also applying AI at scale in the automotive sector, advancing the industry’s evolution from Software-Defined Vehicles to AI-Defined Mobility through AI-integrated design and manufacturing solutions on SDVerse, the world’s first global B2B automotive software marketplace.
FPT launched two AI factories in Vietnam and Japan, powered by NVIDIA H100 and H200 GPUs
In semiconductors, the company has launched its Made-in-Vietnam chips and is working towards the goal of 10,000 semiconductor engineers by 2030. FPT also plans deeper involvement in the global supply chain, not only in design but also in key stages such as packaging, testing, and developing intelligent semiconductor and AI chips.
In parallel, FPT is advancing green transformation through both corporate commitments and digital enablement. Aligned with its Net Zero 2040 commitment, the company has developed VertZéro, a platform that manages carbon data, emissions reporting, and sustainability performance in alignment with Vietnam's emerging regulatory standards. Through partnerships with global organizations, FPT accelerates clean energy adoption across public and private sectors, demonstrating how digital infrastructure enables environmental transition.
Looking ahead
Vietnam's trajectory in 2025 reflects strategic coherence in an era of global uncertainty. The country has developed an approach where digital innovation, industrial sovereignty, and sustainability reinforce one another. As governments and enterprises worldwide reassess growth models and supply chain resilience, Vietnam stands out as a market where policy clarity, technological readiness, and execution capability converge. With a sustained record of pioneering emerging technologies and building core digital infrastructure across the economy, FPT continues to collaborate with the government to advance technological autonomy and contribute to Vietnam's long-term, sustainable development.
