The decision, signed on April 28 by President Luong Cuong, grants Hai Phong the prestigious title. The celebration ceremony is scheduled for the evening of May 13, coinciding with the 70th anniversary of the city's liberation and the Red Flamboyant Flower Festival 2025.

On May 13, 1955, Hai Phong was liberated. Over the past 70 years of construction and development, Hai Phong has emerged as one of Vietnam’s major economic centers, a key growth engine in the northern region, and currently ranks among the top five localities nationwide in terms of economic scale.

The city's GRDP in 2024 is 6.32 times higher than in 2010 and 1.62 times higher than in 2020. Hai Phong is the only locality to maintain double-digit growth for ten consecutive years, with the 2024 growth rate reaching 11.01%, 1.55 times higher than the national average.

From 2021 to 2024, Hai Phong's average annual growth rate reached 11.53%. The city’s economic structure continues to shift toward modernization and urbanization, with a decreasing share of agriculture, forestry, and fisheries and a rising share of industry, construction, and services. Within these sectors, the proportion of high-tech, modern industries has steadily increased.

In 2024, Hai Phong’s GDP per capita reached USD 9,486, more than 20 times higher than in 2003, when the Politburo issued Resolution 32 on the development of Hai Phong in the industrialization and modernization era. In comparison, the national average GDP per capita is USD 4,700.

For three consecutive years (2022-2024), Hai Phong’s state budget revenue exceeded VND 100 trillion (approximately USD 4 billion).
From 2021 to 2024, Hai Phong ranked among the top five cities in attracting foreign direct investment, leading the country in 2021 with over USD 5 billion in FDI.

Marking its 70th anniversary of liberation, Hai Phong has now officially become the third locality, after Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, to be awarded the honorable title of "Hero City."

Hoai Anh