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Vietnam records over 38,000 valid foreign-invested projects: FIA

There were 38,379 valid foreign-invested projects in Vietnam with a total registered capital of 455.06 billion USD as of September 20, reported the Ministry of Planning and Investment’s Foreign Investment Agency (FIA).
Vietnam records over 38,000 valid foreign-invested projects: FIA ảnh 1A corner of Vietnam-Singapore Industrial Park in Binh Duong (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – There were 38,379valid foreign-invested projects in Vietnam with a total registered capital of455.06 billion USD as of September 20, reported the Ministry of Planning and Investment’sForeign Investment Agency (FIA).

Their cumulative disbursement so far has hit 289.9 billion USD, or 63.7%of the total registered capital still in effect.

During January-September, FDI projects disbursed over 15.9 billion USD , up 2.2%annually and marking a 0.9 percentage point increase compared to the firsteight months of this year.

Foreign investors poured capital into 19 outof 21 economic sectors.

The manufacturing and processing industry attractedthe most foreign investment with nearly 273.9 billion USD, or 60.2% of the total capital. It wasfollowed by real estate with around 67.4 billion USD, electricity productionand distribution with over 38.4 billion USD.

In September, new projects from Liechtensteinraised the total number of countries and territories investing in Vietnam to144.

Of them, the Republic of Korea topped thelist with roughly 83 billion USD, ahead of Singapore with some 73 billion USD, followed byJapan, Taiwan (China) and Hong Kong (China).

Among all 63 cities and provinces across thecountry, Ho Chi Minh City took the lead in luring FDI with approximately 57.14 billion USD. Comingnext were Binh Duong with over 40.3 billion USD and Hanoi nearly 39.5 billion USD./.

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