Leadership Quote by Nguyen Xuan Phuc

Determined is the word doing the real work here. Nguyen Xuan Phuc isn’t offering a poetic vision so much as issuing a political guarantee: the state will push, coordinate, and, if necessary, compel. In Vietnam’s governance style, “determination” signals discipline up the chain and reassurance outward - to investors, development partners, and a domestic public that has heard ambitious plans before. It’s a small, familiar phrase that tries to close the gap between promise and delivery.

“Modern and efficient” is a carefully paired aspiration. Modern appeals to national pride and global belonging: Vietnam as a confident manufacturing hub, not a low-cost stopover. Efficient speaks to pain points people feel daily - clogged roads, logistics bottlenecks, power constraints - and to the less visible grievances of business: delays, fragmented permitting, costs that quietly tax growth. The language is intentionally non-ideological; it’s technocratic patriotism, selling competence rather than doctrine.

Then there’s “infrastructure system,” an oddly managerial construction that widens the brief. Not just roads and bridges, but ports, power grids, digital networks, urban transit - the connective tissue of a middle-income country trying to outrun its own congestion. It also hints at governance: a “system” implies standards, coordination, and the promise of streamlining ministries and provinces that can otherwise operate like rival fiefdoms.

The subtext is urgency under constraint. Infrastructure is where legitimacy becomes tangible, but it’s also where debt, land acquisition, corruption risk, and environmental fallout accumulate. The sentence tries to project control over all of that, with one decisive verb.