The potential of the digital economy opens up development opportunities for Vietnam's logistics

In the past week, many newspapers have assessed the prospects and challenges of logistics and smart rural areas in Vietnam.

Some newspapers believe that, with the potential of the digital economy, young population, expanding Internet and shifting world supply chains, are opening new development opportunities for these fields in Vietnam.

In the past week, Nikkei Asia newspaper has published information: "Vietnam produces Apple Watch and MacBook for the first time". Vietnam has become Apple's most important manufacturing hub outside of China, producing a range of key products for the US company, including iPad tablets and AirPods headphones.

According to Fiber2fashion, Vietnam's digital economy market is more than 50 billion USD, bringing great opportunities for the logistics sector. However, this newspaper also pointed out that the transport infrastructure system is not synchronized and depends heavily on road routes.

Vietnam's digital economy market of more than 50 billion USD brings huge opportunities for the logistics sector.

According to a report by global supply chain service provider Aligity, logistics costs in Vietnam are nearly twice as high as the world average.

"Vietnam is a beneficiary country when many countries move away from China. Vietnam is becoming a destination with a strategic location. With that location, the logistics base is very important. That means Ports, railway and aviation infrastructure are essential to ensure that Vietnam's platform can connect with the rest of the world. become extremely attractive to foreign direct investment," commented Kevin Burrell, Regional General Manager, Maersk Group.

Opengovasia has published information, the Government of Vietnam has approved the national program on smart rural development. The program will focus on building a new and modern countryside through digital transformation.

This newspaper emphasized, by 2025, Vietnam aims to have at least 90% of public documents at the central level, 80% at district level and 60% of communal public documents processed online and at least 97 % of communes meeting new rural criteria in terms of information and telecommunications.

"Vietnam's population will quickly surpass 100 million people, many young people, an open Internet environment. That is a strength of Vietnam that Japan does not have, not only in the rural telecommunication sector. Moreover, this year, Vietnam's economy is forecast to grow by 6.5% and from next year the growth rate will be even higher," said Hiroyuki Moribe, Director of the Institute of Economic Research and Development. Vietnam's economic research in Japan.

The newspapers all share the same opinion, the potential is great, but the challenge for Vietnam is not small to develop logistics and smart agriculture, including the challenge of competition, when these are all industries. industry many other countries in the priority area of ​​interest.