The positive FDI performance in the first half of 2026 provides a favourable foundation for Vietnam to realise Resolution No. 10-NQ/TW’s goals. However, to maintain advantages and improve the quality of capital inflows, Vietnam needs not only to improve the investment environment but also develop infrastructure, strengthen domestic enterprises, expand capital markets and promote substantive links between the FDI and domestic sectors.
An expert perceived that Vietnam needs to move towards a new-generation investment attraction model – one that seeks not only capital but also advanced technology, modern governance, innovation and stronger spillover effects on domestic enterprises.
The State economic sector has effectively fulfilled its function of orienting, leading and regulating economic activities, contributing to promoting economic growth, stabilising the macro economy, maintaining major economic balances, ensuring national defence and security, fostering social progress and justice, improving living standards and raising Vietnam’s international standing.
The northern province of Quang Ninh is doubling down on foreign direct investment (FDI) attraction as a key driver for its growth in 2025, aiming to become a top destination for global investors, especially in modern, environmentally friendly industries.
All problems can be solved with trust, sharing, listening, understanding and companionship, stated Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on April 22 while a meeting with foreign investors to listen to their opinions and seek measures to remove difficulties facing them.
The capital city of Hanoi ranked third among cities and provinces nationwide in foreign direct investment (FDI) in the first seven months of this year with 979.7 million USD, affirming its attractiveness to foreign investors.
Up to 85% of enterprises in the processing-manufacturing and construction sectors expected better and stable business situation in the third quarter of this year, while only 15% predicted that the situation may be tougher, according to a survey conducted by the General Statistics Office (GSO).
The People’s Committee of northern Bac Giang province on April 7 held a meeting with representatives of organisations and agencies of the Republic of Korea (RoK) in Vietnam and 170 Korean investors in the locality.
Foreign direct investment (FDI) registered in Vietnam reached 26.46 billion USD as of November 20, up 0.1 percent year on year, according to the Ministry of Planning and Investment.
Despite COVID-19 impacts, foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows into Vietnam during the first nine months of this year rose 4.4 percent year on year to 22.15 billion USD, reported the Foreign Investment Agency under the Ministry of Planning and Investment.
The foreign direct investment (FDI) sector continues to be an important economic driver, contributing to making Vietnam more prosperous, Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh said.
Vietnam recorded a year-on-year decrease of 15.1 percent in foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows to 15.67 billion USD as of June 20, according to the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI).
The non-State sector is playing a greater role in the economy with its proportion in the society’s total investment rising fastest among all economic sectors’.
The private sector was the main driver of growth for Vietnam in the first nine months this year, a conference held by the Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM) heard in Hanoi on October 30.
Foreign investors poured 26.16 billion USD into Vietnam in the first nine months of this year, up 3.1 percent over the same period in 2019, according to the General Statistics Office.
The rate of the investment from the non-state sector is on a constant rising trend, from 38.5% in 2001 to over 43% in 2018, marking a nearly 5 percentage point in the total social investment.
The Vietnam Institute for Economic and Policy Research (VEPR) has predicted Vietnam’s economic growth would accelerate in the third quarter and then reach 7.17 percent the last quarter to hit the Government’s target of 6.6 to 6.8 percent for the full year.
Hanoi, the leading locality nationwide in FDI attraction in 2018, will focus on luring large-scale firms in the future, a move expected to also open up opportunities for small firms to invest in the city.
Vietnam’s export turnover hit 200.27 billion USD in the first 10 months of 2018, up 14.2 percent against the same period last year, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).
