In the first two quarters of this year, 61,276 enterprises were formed, with total registered capital of over 596 trillion VND (more than 26.2 billion USD), according the Ministry of Planning and Investment’s National Enterprise Information and Registration System.
In the first six months of 2017, the total amount of newly registered capital, additional investment and share purchase reached 19.22 billion USD, up 54.8 percent year on year.
The northern province of Bac Giang drew 77 investment projects with a combined registered capital of 1.455 million USD in the first five months of this year.
Hanoi is estimated to post an increase of 7.37 percent in gross regional domestic products in the first half of 2017 and earn 5.8 billion USD from exports, up 12.1 percent against last year.
The number of newly-established firms hit a record high of 110,100 in 2016, up 16.2 percent from 2015, according to the Business Registration Management Agency under the Ministry of Planning and Investment.
For the year to October 20, total registered of new foreign-invested projects in Vietnam dropped 1.3 percent year-on-year to 12.26 billion USD despite a 24.4 percent increase in the number of projects
Vietnam and Cambodia hold substantial potential for cooperation in economy, trade, investment, tourism and other fields, Vietnamese Ambassador to Cambodia Thach Du said.
Businesses have put more confidence in Vietnam’s economic prospect, many economists said, pointing to the surge in the newly registered capital and the number of companies resuming operations.
Vietnam attracted over 1.65 billion USD of FDI in July, adding up to nearly 13 billion USD of the newly registered and additional FDI in the first seven months of 2016.
Some 64,000 enterprises were created in the first seven months of this year with a total registered capital of nearly 497 trillion VND (22.36 billion USD), according to statistics from the GSO.
The number of businesses resuming operations in the first half of 2016 saw a record high in many years, as it jumped 75.2 percent from a year earlier to 14,902, said the General Statistics Office.
Newly-registered and additional foreign direct investment (FDI) capital reached 11.284 billion USD in the first six months of 2016, a year-on-year rise of 105.4 percent.
As many as 10,954 enterprises were formed in April with total registered capital of 62.2 trillion VND (over 2.7 billion USD), according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).
The central province of Thua Thien-Hue is looking to attract 15 new foreign direct investment (FDI) projects with total registered capital of about 350-400 million USD.
Taiwan (China) and the Republic of Korea (RoK) have been the leading foreign investors in the southern province of Dong Nai with investment capital surpassing 5 billion USD.
With 5,584 firms established in February, the country saw 13,904 new companies begin operations in the first two months of 2016, up 1 percent year-on-year, the General Statistics Office (GSO) reporte
Vietnam saw 8,320 new enterprises begin operations, with total capital of 59.3 trillion VND (2.7 billion USD) in the first month of this year, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).
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