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Vietnam News Agency has selected 10 outstanding economic events of Vietnam in 2018 as follow:

Assoc. Prof. Pham Quang Cuong was among 100 overseas Vietnamese intellectuals invited to his home country in 2018 to discuss Industrial Revolution 4.0 in Vietnam.

Vietnam’s first car manufacturer VinFast, under Vingroup, presented the designs for its new line of vehicles named Premium, and officially launched a contest to select the public’s favourite designs on January 15.

Motorcycle sales in 2018 broke the record set seven years ago (3.3 million) with nearly 3.4 million vehicles sold in the domestic market during the year.

Vietnam News Agency has selected 10 outstanding economic events of Vietnam in 2018 as follow:

With 2018 drawing to a close, the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) looks back at the ten most prominent events of Vietnam in the year.

Property developer Vingroup will officially launch its Vsmart smartphones on December 14 at the Vincom Centre Landmark 81 in Ho Chi Minh City.

In order to help boost the Vietnamese automobile industry – one of the most important contributors to national economic growth – the country could do with focusing on its policy stability, market expansion, support industry development, and connectivity reinforcement, according to insiders.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc participated in a ceremony launching the “Vietnamese goods conquer Vietnamese people” programme and introducing new products of local automaker VinFast in Hanoi on November 20.

Vingroup has injected more than 13.6 trillion VND (581.32 million USD) into its VinFast automobile project in the first nine months of this year, marking an increase of over 12.9 trillion VND compared with the beginning of last year.

Automaker VinFastm a subsidiary of Vingroup, has launched its first e-scooter model at the opening ceremony of its factory in the northern city of Hai Phong.

VinFast, a subsidiary of the multi-sector conglomerate Vingroup, and the PetroVietnam Oil Corporation (PV Oil) on October 25 signed a memorandum of understanding on cooperation to implement a system of stations for charging electric vehicles and leasing batteries.

VinFast Trading and Production Limited Liability Company (VinFast) has entered into a 950 million USD financing agreement guaranteed by Euler Hermes and the German Export Credit Agency (ECA) to support the country’s first automotive and motorcycle manufacturing complex, Vinfast announced in its press release.

Vinfast Manufacturing and Trading Company Limited, a subsidiary of Vietnamese conglomerate Vingroup, unveiled two of its new car models at the 120th Paris Motor Show on October 2.

VinFast Trading & Production Ltd. and LG Chem Ltd., a subsidiary of LG Corporation of the Republic of Korea (RoK), on September 7 signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on the production of batteries that meet international standards and environmentally friendly criteria.

Vinfast Manufacturing and Trading Company Limited, a subsidiary of Vingroup, has signed two contracts on the supply of technology and spare parts for electric bus manufacturing with Siemens Vietnam Company.

VinFast Trading and Production Limited Liability Company, a member of the property developer Vingroup, has just finished procedures to open an office in Frankfurt, Germany.

Vingroup subsidiary VinFast has won exclusive rights to distribute Chevrolet vehicles in Vietnam.

Private business conglomerate Vingroup announced on June 12 its plan to produce electronic devices, firstly smartphones under the brand of Vsmart.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc expressed his hope that Vingroup conglomerate will contribute to the development of the domestic automobile sector with the establishment of its VinFast automobile and electric motorbike manufacturing complex.