Nghe An Creative Entrepreneurship: Fostering sustainable growth

This is shared by Mr. Bui Trung Nghia, Vice President of the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) at the Forum "Perfecting policies to promote innovative entrepreneurship - Driving force for economic development in Nghe An and the North Central Vietnam" within the framework of Techfest Nghe An 2025 held by VCCI in coordination with the People's Committee of Nghe An province.

Nghe An breaks through with creative entrepreneurship

Nghe An is among the provinces with an early and sustained growth of the startup movement, according to Mr. Bui Trung Nghia, who spoke at the Forum. In 2013, VCCI hosted the Startup Exchange Program in Nghe An. In 2019, it held training programs on innovative startup consulting skills. Currently, it hosts the Startup Forum as part of Techfest. Over the years, the VCCI's operations in Nghe An, Ha Tinh, and other provinces have also made a substantial contribution to enhancing the business climate and the competitiveness of local businesses.

In addition, Mr. Bui Trung Nghia also emphasized that 2024 and 2025 have marked strong efforts by localities in building and developing a startup ecosystem, closely linked with the national innovation system. Provincial and municipal authorities have implemented many policies to encourage businesses to improve their ability to absorb and apply technology, innovate business models and increase labor productivity. Major cities such as Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Da Nang and Can Tho have made efforts to promote the innovative startup ecosystem, which has been evaluated, ranked, and recognized by the domestic and international business community.

VCCI highly appreciates and recognizes these efforts of the province by awarding the title "Outstanding locality in building a startup ecosystem in 2022", which it coordinated with the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Education and Training to organize the vote.

In Nghe An, in recent years, many start-up projects have achieved outstanding results in the National Start-up Program such as the NANOSALT Salt project, DESTECH water purifier, or the development of a green circular product chain associated with the conservation of precious medicinal herbs... With continuous efforts, Nghe An has been ranked by the Ministry of Science and Technology in the top 5 localities with the best innovative entrepreneurship in the country, along with Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Da Nang and Binh Duong.

VCCI accompanies in creating a startup ecosystem

According to the Vice President of VCCI, our Party has determined that from the 14th Congress onwards, Vietnam will officially enter a new era of development, an era of the nation's rise—an era of breakthroughs in all fields, in which the private sector will be seen as a lever for a prosperous Vietnam. Important resolutions of the Politburo in recent times have opened up a strong policy corridor to encourage the spirit of entrepreneurship.

Specifically, Resolution 41-NQ/TW dated October 10, 2023, of the Politburo on promoting the role of Vietnamese entrepreneurs in the new period emphasizes the goal of "arousing the spirit of entrepreneurship in the whole society, especially in new fields, among the young generation" and emphasizes the role of VCCI in participating in training and fostering entrepreneurs, promoting startups, gathering, linking, cooperating, and supporting entrepreneurs and businesses to develop sustainably.

Resolution 57-NQ/TW dated December 22, 2024 of the Politburo on breakthroughs in science, technology, innovation, and national digital transformation has set out tasks and solutions such as strong enough policies to encourage entrepreneurship in science, technology, innovation, and digital transformation, along with policies to support startups and attract domestic and foreign enterprises to start up in Vietnam.

Most recently, Resolution No. 68-NQ/TW dated May 4, 2025, of the Politburo on private sector development set a target of 2 million enterprises by 2030, which requires "promoting the spirit of entrepreneurship in the whole society; nurturing and encouraging the spirit of innovative entrepreneurship of all people; urgently introducing startup training programs into educational and training institutions; strongly promoting the spirit of entrepreneurship and business start-up among students...

Affirming its role as a representative of the business community, Mr. Bui Trung Nghia pledged that VCCI will continue to accompany localities in perfecting policies to promote local startups, increase the number of new businesses, and support the Vietnamese startup community to deeply integrate into regional and international activities.

“We believe that, with the cooperation and companionship from all of us, the innovative entrepreneurship ecosystem in Nghe An in particular and the North Central Vietnam in general will develop strongly, creating new momentum for sustainable economic growth,” Mr. Bui Trung Nghia emphasized.

On the occasion of the Nghe An province's Techfest 2025 and Startup Forum, National Digital Transformation Day (October 10) and Vietnamese Entrepreneurs Day (October 13), the VCCI Vice President sent his congratulations to entrepreneurs who will continue promoting their creativity, courage and aspiration to contribute to the prosperity of our country.