PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc has urged ministries, sectors and localities to take more drastic measures in the remaining months of the year in order to realise socio-economic development targets in 2016.
Total retail sales of goods and services in October hit 295.35 trillion VND (about 13.2 billion USD), up 0.9 percent against the previous year and representing a year-on-year increase of 9.3 percent.
The consumer price index (CPI) in the past 11 months of 2016 posted a year-on-year increase of 2.47 percent, the General Statistics Office (GSO) announced on November 28.