Addressing the National Assembly on October 28, Minister of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs Dao Ngoc Dung said Vietnam is short of workers, especially high-quality human resources, which leads to low workplace productivity. Informal labor still accounts for a high proportion of the workforce, while labor mobility and human resources transformation are low.

A resource and environment data sharing platform announced by the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Natural Resources and Environment on August 17 provides a geospatial data sharing channel for nearly 450 data sets through open and international transaction standards.