With its indigenous culture formed by friendly and generous people, natural landscape and areas of lush gardens, the Mekong Delta region boasts great potential and a good foundation to develop community-based tourism.

The Mekong Delta region is contributing about 31% to GDP of the entire agricultural sector, with 50% of rice output, 95% of rice exports, 65% of aquaculture and exploitation output, 60% of fish exports and approximately 70% of all type of fruits.

Localities in the Mekong Delta region have been progressively developing roadmaps for clean agricultural production as an effort to gradually guide Vietnam's agricultural sector towards the goal of "Net Zero" by 2050.

The first Health Science Institute in the Mekong Delta is set to open in the first quarter of 2025.

The Mekong Delta provinces in recent years have launched several projects to bring tài tử music and other Southern traditional performing arts to younger generations.

Many hospitals and medical facilities in the Mekong Delta region are facing a shortage of blood for emergency and long-term treatment of patients.