Plastic spare parts of Minh Nguyen Support Indsutry Joint Stock Company supplied to Samsung. (Photo: thegioihoinhap.vn) Hanoi (VNA) – The 2019 enterprise survey will focus on collecting information to accessthe status of support industries in manufacturing and processing and logistics,according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).
The focus on support sectors is a new part of the survey this year, which isbeing conducted nationwide from March 1 to May 19. Manufacturing-processing andlogistics are the two areas being given extra attention by the Government andpolicymakers in their efforts to build a socio-economic development strategy.
Objects of the survey include enterprises subject to regulation by theEnterprise Law, cooperatives operating under the Cooperative Law and businessesoperating under laws on insurance and securities. All enterprises which beganbusiness before January 1, 2019 are in the list.
The survey will contain information about labour, assets, capital sources, unfinishedproducts and finished products in stock, in addition to information relevant tosuch as production results, costs and taxes. It will use official data for the whole of2018.
The 2019 survey results will be used for the National Statistical IndicatorSystem and for the annual official report of the statistics sector. The surveywill also provide basic information for the White Book of Vietnamesebusinesses.
On Vietnam’s Entrepreneurs Day, which falls on October 13, the GSO will publisha set of indicators evaluating business development nationwide. The full resultsof the survey and the White Book will be published in December.
The number of newly established enterprises in 2018 was the highest level everrecorded with 131,275, an increase of 3.5 percent from 3017.
There were 558 new State-owned enterprises, up 10.7 percent; more than 2,720new foreign-invested enterprises, up 3.1 percent; and 127,990 non-State enterprises,up 3.1 percent.-VNA