According to the Economic Committee of the National Assembly, 33 SOEs have their equitisation plans approved in the first eight months of 2017, with total real value put at 80,600 billion VND.
Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue has urged the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) to quickly finalise the list of State-owned enterprises (SOEs) that needed to be divested.
State-owned enterprises divested more than 3.7 trillion VND (163.4 million USD) in book value from investment in non-core operations during the first 8 months of 2017.
Equitisation of State owned enterprises has progressed well in 2011-2016 and the first eight months of 2017 thanks to various ministries and sectors, economic groups and localities getting onboard.
Vietnam is stepping up the equitisation of State-owned enterprises (SOE) and wants foreign investors to pay attention to this area, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said on September 14.