VOV.VN - Ho Chi Minh City recorded economic growth of more than 8% in the first quarter of 2026, maintaining strong momentum despite global uncertainties, with officials expressing confidence that the city’s full-year double-digit growth target remains achievable.

Amid mounting urbanisation pressures and rising growth demands, Ho Chi Minh City is accelerating investment in large-scale strategic infrastructure projects across transport, urban development and digital systems, aiming to remove long-standing bottlenecks while creating spillover benefits for economic growth.

Ho Chi Minh City’s economy expanded 7.02% in the first nine months of the year, with momentum building each quarter despite concerns earlier this year about US tariff impacts, according to the municipal Statistics Office.

VOV.VN - Ho Chi Minh City’s gross regional domestic product (GRDP) rose by 6.56% in the first half of 2025, or 7.49% when crude oil is included, according to a meeting held by the municipal People’s Committee on July 4 to review economic performance in June and outline tasks for the rest of the year.

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has requested that Ho Chi Minh City strive to thoroughly grasp and concretize the Resolutions of the Party Central Committee and the National Assembly (NA), thereby successfully fulfilling this year's goals and tasks to reach economic growth of 7.5% to 8%.

Ho Chi Minh City’s gross regional domestic product (GRDP) was estimated at over VND406.34 trillion (US$16.34 billion) in the first quarter, a year-on-year increase of 6.54%, the highest growth recorded for Q1 since 2020, heard a meeting of the municipal People’s Committee on April 2.

VOV.VN - Ho Chi Minh City, the most populous locality and largest economic centre in Vietnam, has recorded its gross regional domestic products (GRDP) growth of 6.71% in quarter III, helping raise its nine-month GRPD growth to 4.57%, heard a meeting on socio-economic development in the city held on September 28.

Ho Chi Minh City’s gross regional domestic product (GRDP) hit VND1.37 quadrillion (US$59.4 billion at current exchange rate) in 2020, a year-on-year increase of 1.39%.