Hanoi (VNA) – The provincial sustainabledevelopment index (PSDI 2021) report, which was announced at a workshop onDecember 21 in Hanoi, reflects clearly efforts of Vietnamese localities in implementing sustainable development goals in the context of difficulties and geopoliticalconflicts in the world.

The workshop was organised by the Academy of Policy and Development (APD) of the Ministryof Planning and Investment (MPI).

Under the index, the northern provinces of Hung Yen and Ha Nam,and the southern province of Binh Duong were among 13 localities that performedwell sustainable development goals (SDGs) with big leaps from 2020.

Da Nang continued to be the leading locality in the country with 65.28 points,followed by Hai Phong (64.09 points), Quang Ninh (63.10 points), Hanoi (62.46points) and Hung Yen (62.43 points).

The average point for all localities across the country in 2021reached 51.38, showing that localities need to be more active in implementingthe 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the country’s Sustainable DevelopmentStrategy.


During the workshop, experts and researchers discussed internationalcommitments on sustainable development, sustainable development goals and thosethat have been developed to meet Vietnam's conditions. They alsogave assessments the implementation of these goals at the national and locallevels.

The 17 global SDGs have been nationalised by Vietnam in the nationalaction plan to implement the 2030 Agenda for SDGs (SDG NAP) with115 specific goals to match conditions and development priorities of thecountry.

Basically, general guiding policies to concretise theimplementation of SDGs have been issued synchronously and fully, significantly contributingto implementing SDGs in Vietnam.

However, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tran Trong Nguyen, Director of APD, said theassessment of sustainable development level in Vietnam has only focused on thecountry as a whole, not at the provincial and municipal levels, and theintegration of SDGs into national andlocal socio-economic development planning schemes and plans still faces manydifficulties.

According to Dr. Le Viet Anh, Director of the Department of Science, Education,Natural Resources and Environment of the MPI, the multidimensional poverty ratein Vietnam dropped sharply to 3.36% in 2022 from 9.2% in 2016.

Vietnam has worked hard to ensure food security with no one going hungry,maintain export growth of agro-forestry-fishery products,contributing to increasing income for agricultural labourers, promotingagriculture in a more sustainable way, he said./.