High hopes for 2021 as GDP goals defined 10:00 | 08/01/2021 Despite the difficulties the pandemic and the global recession have imposed on Vietnamâs economic growth, the countryâs government is determined to follow its plan of raising GDP growth well above the 6 per cent marker in 2021, thereby laying the foundation for even higher growth rates in the next few years. Vietnam wants to iron out issues involving sustainability and low competitiveness for the years ahead. Photo: Le Toan Presiding over the governmentâs conference with localities in Hanoi last week, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said that the state had been implementing the socioeconomic development plan for 2016-2020 in a time when the economy was facing many difficulties.