Vietnamese Entrepreneurs Day October 13: Honoring typical products and services of Ho Chi Minh City in 2025

On the evening of October 11, the Ho Chi Minh City Business Association (HUBA) held a ceremony to celebrate the 21st anniversary of Vietnam Entrepreneurs' Day (October 13, 2004 - October 13, 2025), the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Ho Chi Minh City Business Association (1975 - 2025). On this occasion, HUBA also held a ceremony to honor "Typical Products and Services of Ho Chi Minh City" in 2025, recognizing the contributions of businesses in innovation, enhancing competitiveness and sustainable development.

Vice Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee Nguyen Loc Ha spoke at the ceremony.

After the country's reunification in 1975, the Ho Chi Minh City Industry and Trade Liaison Committee was established, gathering the city's businessmen to restart economic activities in the new context. After many stages of development and name changes, since 2004, the organization has officially been named Ho Chi Minh City Business Association (HUBA).

Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Hoa, Chairman of HUBA informed: Promoting the role of gathering the business community, HUBA has become a common home for 58 business associations with more than 17,000 member businesses, of which 99% are private enterprises. This force contributes more than half of the city's GRDP, creates jobs for millions of workers and contributes tens of billions of VND each year to social security programs.

HUBA is the place to initiate many meaningful activities such as Business Coffee, Festival to Honor Vietnamese Goods, Caravan to promote trade and investment, trade connection programs, policy criticism, honoring businesses, entrepreneurs, typical products and services, etc.

Leaders of Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee and HUBA performed the ceremony to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the establishment of Ho Chi Minh City Business Association.

From 2018 to present, under the direction of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee, HUBA has organized the Ho Chi Minh City Economic Forum (HEF) 5 times, attracting thousands of businesses, international organizations and experts to attend. Messages and recommendations from the forum have been received, spread and concretized by HUBA in business activities, creating more development momentum for the city.

“The 50th anniversary of the establishment is an important milestone to honor the role of the city's business community and entrepreneurs in the process of socio-economic development, affirm the central position of entrepreneurs in social life and create motivation for the Ho Chi Minh City business community to continue to improve and contribute more to the cause of building and protecting the country”, Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Hoa shared.

Mr. Nguyen Loc Ha, Vice Chairman of the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City, assessed: After half a century of formation and development, the Ho Chi Minh City Business Association has gradually matured and promoted its role as a representative voice of the business community. The Association also actively contributes to administrative reform, investment and trade promotion, digital transformation and supporting businesses to develop sustainably, making positive and effective contributions to the city's socio-economic development.

Leaders of Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee presented traditional flags on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of HUBA's establishment.

In the context of global and regional economic fluctuations, Ho Chi Minh City has identified 2025 as the year of “acceleration”, creating a foundation for a breakthrough in the 2026-2030 period. The city aims for GRDP growth of 8.5%, budget revenue of about VND 520,000 billion, promoting public investment, attracting social resources, developing the digital economy and innovation.

According to Mr. Nguyen Loc Ha, to achieve this goal, the city has deployed three key groups of solutions, in which the business community plays a key role. Specifically, the city continues to effectively implement Resolution 68 of the Politburo on developing the private economy, improving the investment and business environment, enhancing transparency, cutting informal costs and administrative procedure time for businesses.

At the same time, the city will focus on removing obstacles for backlogged projects, especially large projects that are stuck in fire prevention, land, investment and construction procedures. The city will maximize the special mechanism under Resolution 98 of the National Assembly to completely handle bottlenecks, creating conditions for businesses to expand investment and production.

The city also strongly mobilizes social resources for development investment, accelerates the disbursement of public investment to lead and attract private investment capital, and develop the state-owned enterprise sector. During the implementation process, the city government commits to always accompany, listen to and absorb the opinions of enterprises; take enterprises as the center of service, and consider the success of enterprises as the success of the city.

Businesses and entrepreneurs are honored on Vietnamese Entrepreneurs Day.

Also within the framework of the program, HUBA organized the Honoring Ceremony of "Typical Products and Services of Ho Chi Minh City" in 2025 - a biennial event to discover and promote the product and service brands of typical enterprises, contributing to building a strong brand for the city.

With the theme “Green products - Digital services - Smart solutions: Enhancing Vietnamese brands”, this year's voting was launched from July to October 2025, widely deployed to member businesses and the business community of Ho Chi Minh City.

By 2025, the program will encourage businesses to apply high technology, promote digital transformation, green transformation, clean production and develop a circular economy. This is a direction in line with global trends, contributing to realizing the city's goal of green and sustainable growth.

After three months of launching, through two preliminary and final rounds, the Organizing Committee selected 109 typical products and 56 services, representing 105 excellent enterprises. According to statistics, the total revenue from recognized products and services in 2024 and the first 6 months of 2025 reached 32,290,750 billion VND, bringing in 1,391,875 billion VND in profit, paying 30,533 billion VND to the budget and creating jobs for 119,456 workers.

Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Hoa, Chairman of HUBA, said that businesses are increasingly focusing on innovating machinery and technology, improving management and administration, quickly applying advanced technology, digital transformation, green transformation, improving labor productivity, expanding markets and optimizing production processes.

This year's vote not only recognizes achievements but also demonstrates the seriousness, open-mindedness and social responsibility of Ho Chi Minh City businesses. Many new products and services have been launched with the ability to expand production, meet customer tastes, increase profits and create more jobs for workers.

Vice Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee Nguyen Loc Ha praised the typical enterprises and entrepreneurs who have made outstanding achievements in production and business, making important contributions to the city's socio-economic development. He affirmed that the typical enterprises and entrepreneurs whose products were honored are excellent representatives of more than 500,000 enterprises in the city, the core force contributing to socio-economic growth.

The leaders of the City People's Committee expressed their belief that Ho Chi Minh City enterprises will continue to promote dynamism and creativity, actively implement green transformation, digital transformation, circular economy, and develop production and business in a sustainable direction.

Enterprises with outstanding products and services in 2025 will be honored.

On this occasion, the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City also awarded Certificates of Merit to 41 enterprises and 45 entrepreneurs with many years of achievements and the title of Outstanding Enterprise and Entrepreneur to encourage enterprises and entrepreneurs to continue to overcome all difficulties and challenges, and continue to contribute to the cause of building and developing the city and the country.

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