This paper attempts to provide a Vietnam's perspective of the progress and challenges for ASEAN in strengthening ASEAN economic integration and establishing the AEC Apart from the Introduction, the paper consists of 3 Sections. Section 2 describes the progress, common perception and challenges in realizing the goal of AEC Section 3 covers Vietnam's views of ASEAN integration and the AEC It presents also Vietnam's implementation of ASEAN integration commitments and the AEC targets. Then the paper, in Section 4, concludes with some remarks.