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According to statistics, Hanoi currently hosts 221 science and technology enterprises, 10,996 digital technology firms, and over 1,000 innovative startups.

Vietnamese shrimp continues to face fierce competition from Ecuador, India, and Indonesia, while US trade defense measures, including anti-dumping and anti-subsidy duties along with administrative reviews, also pose ongoing challenges for this sector.

The northern North province has expressed a strong desire for Spanish investors to fund four strategic pillars, including high-tech industries and semiconductors, logistics infrastructure, tourism, and ecological agriculture-forestry combined with the carbon credit market.

Investment has increasingly flowed into strategic sectors such as data centers, AI, semiconductors, and research and development.

A host of solutions are available for Vietnam to advance science, technology, and innovation in support of industrialization and modernization.

Within the major industrial sectors, manufacturing and processing rose by 9.5%, contributing 7.4 percentage points to the overall growth.