A SERIES OF STATE-owned enterprises received an emergency telegram from the government, the race for 10% growth has begun.
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The government has just issued a "super speed" telegram to a series of state-owned corporations. Is this a signal for the strongest economic restructuring in many years that will leave businesses that are slow to transform behind?

On May 21, 2026, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Van Thang signed Official Telegram 41/CD-TTg requiring all ministries, branches and management agencies to complete and assign growth targets to state-owned enterprises in an extremely short time. This move shows that the Government is moving from the "orientation" phase to "forcing actual growth progress".

The special point lies in the "double-digit" growth target throughout the period 2026–2030. This is no longer a simple story of revenue or profit, but of pressure to comprehensively transform the national operating model.

Large state-owned enterprises such as Viettel, PVN, EVN, VNPT, ACV, and Infrastructure and Logistics Corporation are considered the "locomotives" that pull Vietnam's GDP beyond the 10% threshold.

TIME TABLE FOR EMERGENCY DISCLOSURES

Content Timeline
May 21, 2026 Issued Official Dispatch 41/CD-TTg
May 22, 2026 Ministries and branches must complete the assignment of targets to enterprises under their management
May 23, 2026 Completed large-scale target assignment
May 25, 2026 The Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Defense report results to the group of businesses directly managed by the Prime Minister

What makes the financial world cThe focus is not on the speed of dispatch but on the Government's emphasis on "changing the growth model".

The new focus includes
• Comprehensive digital transformation
• AI and automation
• Modern logistics infrastructure
• High-speed public investment
• Semiconductor technology and data
• Energy and strategic telecommunications

This makes a huge difference compared to the old model, which relied on real estate, credit and capital expansion.

COMPARE GROWTH MODELS

Old model New model
Growth thanks to loans Growth thanks to technology
Dependent on cheap labor Dependent on digital productivity
Infrastructure development is slow. Promote mega projects
Export processing of high-tech value chain
Businesses operate traditionally AI and digitization

What is worth noting is that this time the pressure is not only placed on private enterprises such as Vingroup or FPT, but the State-owned enterprise sector is the group that is asked to accelerate the most.

For many years, the State-owned enterprise sector has often been questioned about the efficiency of capital use, speed of innovation and competitiveness compared to private enterprises.

SOME “LOADERS” ARE EXPECTED

Enterprise Strategic role
Viettel Digital infrastructure, AI, defense technology
PVN National Energy
EVN Electricity and transmission infrastructure
ACV Aviation infrastructure
VNPT National digital transformation

If the double-digit growth plan is successful, Vietnam could enter the group of Asia's fastest growing economies in the period 2026–2030. But if it fails, the pressure of public debt, scattered investment and low efficiency will become a huge problem.Many experts consider this to be a "life and death test" for State enterprise management capacity in the age of AI and global competition.

IMAGINE THE NEW RACE

From just a few pages of urgent dispatch, Vietnam is signaling an unprecedented economic acceleration, where State-owned enterprises are no longer allowed to "go slowly but safely" but must run like global technology corporations.

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