Aspiration for development

Tóm tắt

Hochiminh City today and the former Pearl of Orient, Hanoi nowadays and Hanoi of 20-30 years ago, Danang - the most worth-living city now and Danang in the old days, those are absolutely not small changes.

In the very first days of 2015, Hochiminh City announced that its GDP per capita has reached 5,000 USD a year; Hanoi inaugurated the longest cable-stayed bridge in the Southeast Asia. At the end of 2014, new weapons received for national defense were the third Kilo-class submarine named HQ-184 Haiphong and the SU-30MK2 fighter jet. Such events have left a not trivial impact on the development.

However, besides such positive changes, the country has been coping with many severe problems that are intractable to resolve. Looking back at the realities of development, especially in recent years, many phenomena can be recognized as contradictions in terms that must be accepted despite our will.

The development should have been more commensurate with the potential. Indeed! But the aspiration for development always goes beyond and is more ideal than the reality.