Six-month FDI grows across the board (02/7)
02/07/2013 - 22 Lượt xem
Specifically,
FDI disbursed during the first half of the year amounted to US$5.7
billion, a 5.6 percent increase from a year ago.
Vietnam
granted investment licenses to 554 new FDI projects with total
registered capital of US$5,812 million, a 3.7 percent increase from a
year ago. Meanwhile, 217 ongoing FDI projects registered to increase
their capital by US$4.66 billion, a 35.7 percent increase. New and
supplementary FDI capital reached US$10,473 million in the first six
months of this year, a 15.9 percent increase against the same period
last year.
The
Foreign Investment Department said that new and supplementary FDI
increased rapidly in these months as a result of increased capital for
several major projects, including the Japanese-invested Thanh Hoa-based
Nghi Son Oil Refinery Project increasing its capital by US$2.8 billion,
the Bac Ninh-based Samsung Electronics Vietnam Co., Ltd. project
increasing its capital by US$1 billion, the Samsung Electronics Vietnam
Thai Nguyen Co., Ltd. project investing US$2 billion in Thai Nguyen
Province, and the Russian-invested Bus Industrial Center Co., Ltd.
project investing US$1 billion in Binh Dinh Province.
Export-import
revenues in the FDI sector also soared showing positive business
signals. The sector exported US$37.37 billion worth of goods not
including crude oil in the first six months of this year, increasing by
28.3 percent increase from a year ago and accounting for 60.22 percent
of all export earnings. The sector also imported US$35,726 million worth
of goods during this time, increasing by 27.8 percent from a year ago
and accounting for 56.3 percent of all import purchases. The FDI sector
reached a trade surplus of US$5,413 million, while the country recorded a
trade deficit of US$1,403 million.
Forty-five
countries and territories invested in Vietnam in these months,
including Japan as the leader with US$3,992 million in new and
supplementary FDI capital accounting for 38.1 percent of all FDI capital
in the country. Singapore took second place with US$3.14 billion and
32.6 percent and was followed by Russia with US$1,015 million and 9.7
percent, respectively./.
Source: VEN.
Source: VEN.
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Foreign
businesses invested in 18 sectors in Vietnam in the first six months of
this year. The processing and manufacturing sector continued to attract
foreign investors through 259 new projects and total new and
supplementary capital of US$9,308 million accounting for 88.9 percent of
all registered capital. The real estate sector took second place with
13 new projects and total new and supplementary capital of US$419.67
million accounting for almost four percent of all investment capital.
The whole sale, retail and repair sector took third place with 79 new
projects and total new and supplementary capital of US$178.27 million
accounting for 1.7 percent of all investment capital./.
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