HANOI -- Vietnam is moving to build a bigger digital economy, driven in part by semiconductor manufacturing, during the next five years and beyond as the Communist Party this week maps out a course that will take the country's economy to 2045.
Communist Party aims to grow tech sector to 30% of GDP in a decade

A Samsung smartphone plant in Bac Ninh Province in northern Vietnam. The South Korean company operates two huge smartphone factories in the Southeast Asian country. (Photo by Tomoya Onishi)
HANOI -- Vietnam is moving to build a bigger digital economy, driven in part by semiconductor manufacturing, during the next five years and beyond as the Communist Party this week maps out a course that will take the country's economy to 2045.