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The top 10 domestic events of 2017 as selected by the State-run Vietnam News Agency.

Vietnamese enterprises, especially those in private sector, must unceasingly renovate themselves and take advantage of the fourth industrial revolution for their sustainable development while contributing to national growth, said President Tran Dai Quang.

Vietnam’s shrimp industry will become a key economic sector if the national action plan for the development of the shrimp industry by 2025 meets its targets.

Poorly implemented economic reforms have left Vietnam with a distorted market still struggling to overcome the shadow of inefficient State-owned enterprises, an economist said on January 18.

Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh has approved a plan to develop Vietnam’s maritime industry and trade to 2025, with a vision to 2035.

2017 is considered a successful year for the tourism sector, with 13 million international tourists arriving in Vietnam, up by three million against the previous year.

Vietnam News Agency (VNA) has selected Vietnam’s 10 most notable events of 2017 as follows:

Vietnam has become one of the top five exporters of aquatic products in the world thanks to the development of the fisheries sector over the past years.

The Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre’s export revenue from January to November surged 16.37 percent against the same period last year to 754 million USD.

Vietnam recorded 2.8 billion USD in trade surplus in the first 11 months of 2017.

The northern port city of Hai Phong is striving to make tourism a spearhead economic sector and turn itself into one of the nation’s key tourism destinations.

Vietnam’s exports are likely to hit 210 billion USD this year, up 18.9 percent, the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) forecast.

The National Private Economic Development Research Board made its debut in Hanoi on October 30.

APEC finance ministers will focus on discussing four cooperation priorities in 2017, including long-term infrastructure investment, base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS), disaster risk financing and insurance (DRFI), and inclusive finance, at their 24th meeting and related events in Hoi An city, the central province of Quang Nam, from October 19-21.

The Government has just launched an action programme to implement a Politburo resolution on developing the tourism industry into a spearhead economic sector.

The Government has issued two action plans to carry out the 12th Party Central Committee’s Resolution 10 on developing the private economic sector and Resolution 11 on perfecting the socialist-oriented market institutions.

The central province of Thua Thien – Hue plans to develop tourism into a spearhead economic sector, towards becoming a leading destination in Vietnam and Southeast Asia.

Vietnamese women play an important role in socio-economic development, Deputy Secretary of the Hanoi Party Committee Ngo Thi Thanh Hang said.

Vietnam exported 16.7 billion USD worth of goods in April, raising the total export turnover in four months to 61.3 billion USD, a year-on-year increase of 15.4 percent.

Private economy was earlier only acknowledged as part of the multi-sector economy, but it has been regarded a key driving force for the economy and a vital factor to fulfill set tasks of the State.