Despite many challenges, based on the bright spots in the first ten months of 2025, An Giang is pushing hard for a year-end surge. Provincial leaders stress that, drawing on results from the first ten months and assessments of Q4 growth potential alongside domestic and global forecasts, the 8.5% growth target is demanding and requires stronger, more coordinated, and decisive action with full resource commitment. Implementing Conclusion No. 123-KL/TW dated 24/01/2025 of the Party Central Committee, Q4/2025 growth must reach at least 10.39% for the full year to hit 8.5%.

Regarding public-investment disbursement, as of 10/11/2025 the province had disbursed more than VND 11,135 billion-equivalent to 60.12% of the plan assigned by the Prime Minister and 42.71% of the allocation by the Provincial People’s Council. More than VND 14,935 billion remains to be disbursed by the end of January 2026, averaging nearly VND 5,000 billion per month. The province is therefore concentrating on removing bottlenecks, especially in key projects, particularly works serving APEC 2027.

Accordingly, the province is tightening accountability in public-investment disbursement under the “six clarities”: clear person, clear task, clear responsibility, clear authority, clear timeline, and clear results—aiming to achieve 100% of the 2025 disbursement plan. Localities with slow implementation or insufficient resolve will be strictly rectified, and failure to meet the 2025 disbursement target will be deemed failure to fulfill a political task. 

Next, the province is implementing measures to remove bottlenecks and obstacles for production and business, improve the business environment, step up investment attraction and tourism development, create breakthroughs to accomplish the 2025 objectives, and build a solid foundation for 2026–2030.

According to the An Giang Department of Industry and Trade, the industrial production index in the first ten months rose 14.04% year-on-year; processing–manufacturing increased by more than 14%. Industrial output value exceeded VND 94,126 billion, with many key products maintaining strong growth such as frozen aquatic products, rice milling, and cement…

Mr. Nguyen Thong Nhat, Director of the Department of Industry and Trade, said the province will continue synchronized solutions to boost industrial production, aiming to meet and exceed the 2025 plan and set the stage for production–business growth in 2026: resolving difficulties, supporting firms in scaling up operations and recruitment, ensuring input supplies, and avoiding disruption to production and supply chains. In particular, strong growth is targeted in processing–manufacturing for core items such as frozen seafood, pangasius, canned fish, milled rice, garments–footwear, MDF wood, packaging, cement, and mineral extraction; investment will also be attracted into industrial parks and clusters to facilitate production.

In the “smokeless industry,” total visitors over ten months exceeded 21.37 million, up 21.7% year-on-year and 1.5% above the annual plan; international visitors surpassed 1.38 million, up 65.7%. Notably, total tourism revenue topped VND 56,000 billion, up 78.2% year-on-year and 42.6% above the annual plan.

Mr. Bui Quoc Thai, Director of the An Giang Department of Tourism, emphasized that although the tourism sector has exceeded the 2025 plan, the province will keep up momentum in the last two months so tourism and services grow strongly, contributing to local socio-economic development.

Accordingly, the province will intensify communications and tourism promotion activities, organize events to attract visitors, and work to open more charter flights and new domestic and international routes to expand travel options to An Giang. It will also strengthen linkages with Ho Chi Minh City and Mekong Delta localities, and coordinate a fam trip to showcase “return-to-roots” borderland products under the theme “Proud of borderland hallmarks.”

To sustain momentum and create 2025 tourism highlights, An Giang’s tourism sector is organizing trade–tourism promotion events, especially preparations for the year-end festive season—Christmas, New Year 2026, and the traditional Lunar New Year Binh Ngo 2026—forecast to attract large visitor flows, with Phu Quoc Island tourism expected to “boom” at year-end.

For agriculture—the “pillar” of the provincial economy—total harvested rice output exceeds 7.88 million tons, reaching 90.65% of plan; aquatic output is over 1.36 million tons, up 6.64% year-on-year. From now to year-end, the province will focus on tending and completing the autumn–winter rice harvest; promoting aquaculture, livestock development, and vegetable cultivation to supply heightened year-end market demand and processing for export.

Leaders of the An Giang Department of Agriculture and Environment noted that the province is strengthening linkage models among farmers, cooperatives, and enterprises to secure stable outlets for farm products—especially rice, vegetables, and aquatic products; stepping up application of science and technology, advanced cultivation techniques, and digital transformation in production management to raise productivity and product quality; and stabilizing livestock and aquaculture by maintaining herd sizes and aquaculture area, controlling disease, and providing technical support to farmers to achieve high productivity, output, and quality for consumption and export processing. These efforts are expected to contribute to provincial growth and lay the groundwork for a more modern, efficient agriculture in 2026.

A key emphasis in achieving the 8.5% GRDP target is effective implementation of Government and Provincial Party Committee resolutions and guidelines on building an apparatus that is “Lean – Compact – Strong – Efficient – Effective – Efficacious,” as directed by the Politburo; and arranging and handling offices and facilities for agencies and units under the two-tier local government model to ensure smooth, uninterrupted operations.

With strong resolve, the concerted effort of the entire political system, close partnership with businesses, and active public support, An Giang expects not only a spectacular finish this year but to surpass the 8.5% growth milestone—paving the way for 2026 and double-digit growth in 2026–2030./.

Reported by Le Huy Hai

Translated by Kim Thuan