Ministry of Planning and Investment, Vietnam

The Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI), formerly the State Planning Commission, is a governmental ministry charged with the role of state management over planning and investment. The ministry's headquarters is located in Hanoi.

The MPI performs the functions of state management over planning, development investment, and statistics, including the provision of general advice on strategies, plans for national socio-economic development; on development planning, mechanism and policies for general economic management and some specific fields; on domestic investment, foreign investment into Vietnam and Vietnam’s investment abroad; economic zones (including industrial parks, border-gate economic zones, hi-tech parks and other types of economic zones); on management of official development assistance source (hereinafter called ODA for short) and foreign non-governmental aids; on bidding; on establishment and development of enterprises, and collective economy and cooperative sector; on statistics; performs the state management over public services in the sectors, fields under its management as prescribed by law.