Overseas Vietnamese: Continuing the journey of Vietnam's development
WVR - Throughout its formation and development, the overseas Vietnamese community has never been merely a scattering of isolated groups across foreign lands. Wherever they live, overseas Vietnamese remain an inseparable part of the Vietnamese nation and a valuable national resource.
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Family bonds – Over 6.5 million hearts beating for the Homeland
“The Fatherland and the Government always remember our compatriots, like parents missing their children away from home. This is the natural human sentiment, the family bond”, President Ho Chi Minh.
President Ho Chi Minh's simple yet heartfelt advice from years ago remains the strongest spiritual bond, connecting the hearts of millions of expatriates with their motherland.
In recent years, the overseas Vietnamese community has made remarkable progress both in quantity and quality. The number of intellectuals, experts, scientists, entrepreneurs, and highly skilled workers has increased, with many establishing a solid reputation and position in their host societies and participating deeply in global networks of science, technology, and economics.
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| Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Le Thi Thu Hang. (Source: State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese) |
Not only succeeding in their personal careers, they also remain deeply connected to their homeland, diligently preserving the Vietnamese language, maintaining cultural identity, and actively serving as a bridge of friendship between Vietnam and the world. Their sincere feelings, investment flows, valuable knowledge, and charitable activities sent back home have significantly contributed to the cause of building, developing, and defending the Fatherland.
Each overseas Vietnamese may have their own circumstances and journey, but they all share a common love for their country, national pride, and the aspiration to see Vietnam prosper and thrive. This immense potential and burning passion of the community is an invaluable asset that our Party and State always cherish, nurture, and wish to strongly awaken in the new development phase.
Resolution 23: A strategic milestone elevating the mindset of Overseas Vietnamese affairs
| “In the new phase, the work concerning overseas Vietnamese needs to elevate from mobilizing, gathering, and caring to accompanying, creating mechanisms, and mobilizing resources for overseas Vietnamese to participate more deeply in the country's integration, building, and development journey”, Resolution No. 23-NQ/TW of the Politburo. |
In the context of increasingly fierce global competition in knowledge, technology, and human resources, leveraging the comprehensive national strength by combining internal and external resources is crucial for the two centennial goals of national development. With over 6.5 million people living abroad, the overseas Vietnamese community possesses valuable knowledge, experience, economic potential, and international networks.
Resolution No. 23-NQ/TW dated August 2, 2026, of the Politburo marks a significant shift in overseas Vietnamese affairs: renewing mindset and breakthrough in action. From mobilizing, gathering, and caring to accompanying, creating mechanisms, and mobilizing resources.
Overseas Vietnamese are not only beneficiaries of policies but also participants, partners, and strategic resources for the country. To realize this policy, it is necessary to continue improving policies, reforming administrative procedures, promoting digital transformation, and creating a favorable environment for them to connect, cooperate, and invest long-term in their homeland.
More importantly, it is necessary to innovate connection methods so that the potential of overseas Vietnamese can be transformed into practical effectiveness. Ministries, sectors, localities, research institutes, and businesses need to proactively identify needs, build specific cooperation proposals, thereby connecting the right experts, the right resources, and the right fields.
The database and resource map of overseas Vietnamese will contribute to promoting this process, especially in fields such as science and technology, artificial intelligence, semiconductor technology, innovation, digital transformation, green transformation, and the development of high-quality human resources.
The contribution method also needs to be flexible, creating conditions for overseas Vietnamese experts, intellectuals, and entrepreneurs to participate in policy consultation, research, teaching, technology transfer, human resource training, and investment connection, even from afar. The long-term goal is to build a sustainable connection ecosystem between the overseas Vietnamese community and domestic agencies, localities, businesses, and research institutions. Through this, the spirit of accompanying, creating mechanisms, and mobilizing resources of Resolution 23 will be concretized by practical cooperation networks, initiatives, and projects, contributing to enhancing the comprehensive national strength.
The 5th Global Conference: A forum elevating national comprehensive strength
To concretize the major policies and orientations of the Party on leveraging national comprehensive strength by closely combining internal and external resources, the 5th Global Conference of Overseas Vietnamese is scheduled to be held in December 2026 in Hanoi, with the theme “The Overseas Vietnamese Community Contributing to Enhancing National Comprehensive Strength”.
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Especially in the context where Resolution No. 23-NQ/TW of the Politburo on overseas Vietnamese affairs has identified the overseas Vietnamese community as an important strategic resource, the Conference holds practical significance in bringing these orientations to life, expanding the contribution space of compatriots, and strengthening the connection between the global Vietnamese community and their homeland.
Following the success of the previous four Conferences, the 5th Conference is not only an opportunity for overseas Vietnamese to meet, exchange, share their thoughts and aspirations, and listen to the orientations of the Party and State leaders, but also a forum to gather the intelligence, experience, and initiatives of the community at a strategic level.
Through in-depth discussions and direct connection activities between overseas Vietnamese and domestic ministries, sectors, localities, research institutes, and businesses, the Conference aims to promote the substantial participation of overseas Vietnamese in national development goals, especially in fields of strategic importance for the country's future such as science and technology, innovation, digital transformation, green transformation, high-quality human resource development, investment, and international market expansion.
Another important significance of the Conference is to establish long-term connection mechanisms, so that relationships, ideas, and cooperation proposals do not stop at the event framework but continue to be nurtured and developed after the Conference. The formation of networks of overseas Vietnamese experts, intellectuals, and entrepreneurs; building a list of initiatives and cooperation projects with domestic agencies and partners; proposing policy improvements and identifying coordination focal points will contribute to gradually forming a global connection ecosystem for overseas Vietnamese. Through this, the intelligence, experience, economic resources, and international networks of the community will be more effectively utilized, serving the cause of building and defending the Fatherland.
The effectiveness of the Conference will be reflected in specific results and long-term continuity: from the Joint Action Program, policy recommendations, and connection networks formed, to the list of initiatives, cooperation projects capable of implementation, and coordination mechanisms and follow-up after the Conference. More importantly, the Conference contributes to strengthening trust, awakening patriotism, and the aspiration to contribute, so that each overseas Vietnamese sees more clearly their role, opportunities, and conditions to participate in the development of their homeland.
When the attention of the Party and State is concretized by favorable mechanisms, and the enthusiasm of overseas Vietnamese is connected with the country's development needs, the strength of the community will be transformed into practical resources, contributing to enhancing the comprehensive national strength in the new era.
United in continuing the prosperous journey of the Nation
| “The country always welcomes and appreciates all contributions, whether direct or from afar. Joining hands to build the homeland is the spirit of 'national sentiment - compatriotism'”, General Secretary, President To Lam |
In the new era of development, Vietnam stands before great opportunities to realize the aspiration of building a prosperous and happy nation. On this journey, the strength of national unity is the important foundation, nurtured by the joint efforts and consensus of compatriots at home and over 6.5 million overseas Vietnamese. Wherever they live, each Vietnamese can contribute their passion, intelligence, and resources to the common development of their homeland.
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| Deputy Minister Le Thi Thu Hang with delegates of Vietnam Summer Camp 2026. (Photo: Thanh Long) |
To turn these feelings and desires to contribute into practical actions, the work concerning overseas Vietnamese needs to continue to be innovated with the synchronized and decisive involvement of the entire political system in the spirit of “6 clear”: clear people, clear tasks, clear time, clear responsibility, clear products, and clear authority. Functional agencies need to shift strongly from a management mindset to a service mindset, being close, listening, and accompanying compatriots; while creating favorable conditions for overseas Vietnamese to leverage their intelligence, experience, connect cooperation, and contribute to the country in many fields.
The connection with the homeland is also nurtured from simple things: preserving the Vietnamese language, transmitting national culture, sharing knowledge, and extending cooperation bridges. Every contribution, whether large or small, is worthy of respect when it stems from the love for the country and the desire for Vietnam to develop further.
With the spirit of Resolution No. 23-NQ/TW on overseas Vietnamese affairs in the new situation, we believe that when feelings are nurtured by understanding, trust is strengthened by practical actions, and domestic and international resources are effectively connected, our compatriots across the five continents will continue to stand alongside their homeland. Because the prosperous journey of the nation is the common journey of the descendants of Hung Kings – where every heart, every contribution contributes to writing the future of peace, prosperity, and happiness for the country.
