With its vast potential of e-commerce development thanks to surging IT and wide smartphone coverage, Vietnam is trying to build its own digital economy fuelled by a hallmark strategy on Industry 4.0.

Domestic enterprises are embracing robotics and advanced technologies in their production lines to boost smart manufacturing activities, but there is a long road ahead for those wishing to keep up with the Fourth Industrial Revolution. 

Vietnam considers domestic private enterprises as an important driving force for the economy which is looking to become an integrated and modern one. 

In efforts to embrace the fourth industrial revolution, Vietnam's cities and provinces are pushing smart city programmes, combining technology with internet-connected devices to enhance municipal management and economy.

With its great potential, Vietnam is marching towards becoming a modern nation with a digital economy amid the Industry 4.0 unfolding far and wide, which has major impacts on the business community.

PhD Doctor Nguyen Quan, President of the Viet Nam Automation Association, talks to Hà Nội Mới (New Hà Nội) newspaper on the role of automation in Industry 4.0

PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc has underlined the need to accelerate the building of a digital government, digital administration and smart urban system.

Startups in Vietnam have been trending to adopt the technology of the Fourth Industrial Revolution to gain market success amid mounting competition.

Vietnam is working hard to unclog financial resources to develop a knowledge-based digital economy amid the wide influences of Industry 4.0.

Vietnam is embracing the Industry 4.0 staples of high technology and research and development in an attempt to create a role for itself as a tech hub within Southeast Asia.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Minister of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs Dao Ngoc Dung speaks to the newspaper Thời báo Kinh tế Việt Nam about new changes in occupational education this year.

Doan Mau Diep, deputy minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, talks to the newspaper Thời báo Kinh tế Việt Nam about what Vietnam should do to prepare its labour force for the age of Industrial Revolution 4.0

 VietNamNet Bridge – Tran My Tien is a hard-working employee of a famous bank in HCM City.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Health (MoH) has begun implementing a plan to strengthen control over drug distribution by applying information technology.

Dam Manh Duong from the Ministry of Science and Technology and Professor Doctor Tran Dinh Thien, Director of Viet Nam Institute for Economics, talk about Viet Nam and the fourth industrial revolution.