Headlined by a rebound in citizens’ economic optimism that contracts with still visible scarring from the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2022 Provincial Governance and Public Administration Performance Index report, released on April 12 in Hanoi, also provides an important public sentiment in the fight against corruption.

In the next decade, the domestic network of vocational education institutions will be able to meet the demand for trained workers of a developing country with modernized industries and upper-middle income.

Presiding over a meeting with relevant ministries and sectors on collecting people's opinions on the draft Land Law (amended) last Friday, Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha said the work must be done with the right subjects and the recommendations for policy changes must be practical.

By 2025, almost all urban citizens and 65 percent of rural people will have access to daily clean water, according the master plan on water resources for the 2021-30 period, with a vision toward 2050, recently approved by the Prime Minister.

An Giang, a southwestern province that shares a border of around 100 kilometers with Cambodia, is calling for investment in urban infrastructure, hi-tech agriculture and tourism in order to turn itself into a modern, smart, ecological province imbued with cultural identity of the Mekong River delta.

Vietnam targets to become a developing country with modern industry and upper middle income by 2030, and a developed and high-income country with equal, democratic and civilized society by 2050.

After 19 sitting days, the third session of the 15th National Assembly has finished a great workload with high consensus, and decided on many important issues not only for 2022 but the whole 2021-25 period and subsequent years.

This article is the second excerpt from the 2021 Vietnam Provincial Governance and Public Administration Performance Index (PAPI) Report. It presents key findings from the 2021 PAPI citizen surveys on how local governments performed in delivering on their mandates and public services across the eight PAPI dimensions.

By 2030, the Mekong River delta’s annual growth rate will increase by 6.5-7 percent with its economy’s size 2-2.5 times bigger than that in 2021.