2026-2030 Strategy: MOIT’s Role in National Ascent

The Era of National Ascent and the Action Mission of the Industry and Trade Sector

The country enters the era of national ascent—an era of great aspiration, economic self-reliance, proactive integration, and sustainable development.

In this flow, the Industry and Trade sector is not merely a component of the economy but one of the core forces, creating the momentum for national development.

Ascending with New Thinking and New Aspirations The General Secretary’s message regarding the “Era of Ascent” sets forth core requirements: development must be fast but sustainable; integration must be deep but mastered; and high growth must be based on solid internal strength. The 2026–2030 tenure requires the Industry and Trade sector to shift strongly towards a “development enabling” role—proactively opening paths, leading the market, accompanying businesses, and taking the substantive efficiency of the economy as the highest measure.

It is necessary to emphasize General Secretary To Lam’s message: regarding “execution governance” (quản trị thực thi) as the new standard of economic management. For the Industry and Trade sector, the spirit of execution governance means not only setting targets for export growth or industrial output but packaging them into actionable and measurable contents across all fields: supporting industries, energy, logistics, trade, supply chain participation, and standardizing goods according to green standards and traceability.

From the “quartet” of pillar resolutions by the Politburo in 2025, a logical perspective for action emerges. In the 2026–2030 tenure, economic growth will no longer be a story of a “single pillar” but a fully mutually supportive system. In that system, the Industry and Trade sector plays the role of a direct connector between energy and industry, production and market, integration and supply chain, and infrastructure and goods circulation.

Energy and Infrastructure: Foundation and Breakthrough In many directives, the special concern and new thinking of the Head of our Party focus on two elements that can be viewed as both the foundation and the breakthrough: Energy Security and Commercial Economic Infrastructure.

Speaking at the 50th Anniversary of the Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (Petrovietnam) on September 21, 2025, General Secretary To Lam mentioned the orientation to ensure energy security for the new period according to a “3-layer” architecture: stable traditional sources, flexible sources, and new sources. Simultaneously, building strategic reserve capacity and flexible regulation/supply linked with independent, autonomous economics. Thereby, not only ensuring energy sources for development but truly turning energy into a new competitive advantage of the country.

If energy is the foundation, then infrastructure is the transmission engine of development. At the Long Thanh International Airport construction site on November 13, 2025, the General Secretary required a correct perception of the project’s strategic stature: “This is not just an airport but a strategic driver for the country’s economic development…”

For the Industry and Trade sector, from the General Secretary’s directive, it is evident that to export strongly and sustainably, there must be logistics infrastructure and transport gateways of sufficient stature, capable of reducing costs and increasing delivery speed, especially for high-value goods, cold chain goods, and technological goods.

Simultaneously, this suggests a mindset of opening commodity markets via infrastructure: when there is a new gateway, commercial space expands; agro-fishery, processing, and export supply chains can be optimized; creating momentum for the formation of logistics centers and marine trade services.

Action for the Aspiration of a Mighty Vietnam When discussing Resolution No. 59-NQ/TW, General Secretary To Lam posited that international integration is a strategic driver based on decisive internal strength. This approach is particularly important for the 2026–2030 tenure, as Vietnam is already an economy with great openness and deep dependence on the world market. However, high openness also implies high risks: trade remedies, green barriers, traceability requirements, fluctuations in energy prices, transport, etc.

Therefore, for integration to go hand-in-hand with internal strength in the 2026–2030 tenure, requirements need to be transformed into specific capabilities of the Industry and Trade sector in: developing supporting industries to raise the localization rate; standardizing according to market standards; increasing market forecasting and management capacity; and ensuring competitive energy sources to maintain cost advantages.

From General Secretary To Lam’s economic messages for the 2026–2030 tenure, a structural system is revealed: Institutions are the rails, Infrastructure is the engine, Energy is the foundation, Industry and Trade are where value is created, and Integration is the development space.

In the 2026–2030 tenure, the entire Industry and Trade sector will continue to unite, innovate more strongly, act more decisively, and realize the General Secretary’s message on the “Era of Ascent” into specific results in every industry, every market, and every enterprise; turning development aspirations into specific actions, and political determination into practical results.

Core Principles of Action:

• Innovate thinking, reform institutions, act decisively.
• Take national and ethnic interests as the fulcrum; take businesses and people as the center of service.
• Build an autonomous, modern industry.
• Develop a brave, transparent, and sustainable trade sector.
• Integrate proactively but without dependence; open doors but do not trade away the future.
• Maintain discipline, uphold responsibility, dare to think, dare to do, and dare to take responsibility for common development.

The 2026–2030 tenure is a pivotal transition, requiring the entire Industry and Trade sector to strongly innovate thinking and elevate action, worthy of the mission in the new era as pointed out by General Secretary To Lam: “2025 has established a solid institutional foundation; 2026 must be the year of breakthrough action…”