Vietnam Leader Calls for ‘New Model’ to Hit 10% Growth Goal

Vietnam’s top leader said the country must pursue a “new model” to reach its 10% growth goal, highlighting the role of technology, private industries and rooting out corruption.

Speaking at the opening of the party’s National Congress on Tuesday, General Secretary To Lam laid out his vision for maintaining breakneck growth and autonomy amid an increasingly fraught competition between its top political and economic partners, the US and China.