In November alone, the index had a month-on-month surge of 1.4 percent.
During the first 11 months, industrial production increased 4.7percent for processing, 11.3 percent for electricity and fuel and 16 percent for water supply and wastewater treatment. Meanwhile, otherindustries saw reductions in production such as food processing (2.7percent), textiles (17.9 percent) and paper (3.8 percent).
Atpresent, industrial production in Hanoi is still experiencingdifficulties mainly due to high inventory but producers have started toresume stable operations and plan to have enough goods on hand for theholidays at the end of the year and lunar new year.-VNA