Over the past nine months, foreign investors invested in 18 sectors, with the processing and manufacturing industries taking the lead in luring FDI with a total investment of nearly 9.9 bln USD.
Vietnam attracted 19.54 billion USD worth of FDI as of August 20, down 13.7 percent year-on-year, according to the Ministry of Planning and Investment.
Vietnam has become one of the world’s fastest growing economies since the country first opened up to foreign trade and investment more than three decades ago, with GDP last year being 12.5 times higher than in 2001 and growth averaging 7.26 percent from 2001 to 2010.
FDI inflows into Vietnam will soon bounce back once the COVID-19 pandemic is brought under control, Chief Representative of the Japan External Trade Organisation (JETRO) in Hanoi Takeo Nakajima said on September 9.