The total disbursement of public investment reached VND267.6 trillion(US$11.2 billion) as of the end of July, fulfilling only 35.49 percent of the plan set for 2023.
In the stormy year of 2021, foreign direct investment (FDI) into Vietnam continued to increase. According to the Foreign Investment Agency of the Ministry of Planning and Investment, from the beginning of 2021 to December 20, 2021, the total registered FDI capital into Vietnam was about US$31.15 billion, up 9.2 percent over the same period last year.
Some 80,000 businesses in Vietnam has withdrawn from the market since the beginning of the year, highlighting the negative impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on the corporate sector, said the General Statistics Office of Vietnam yesterday.
The total foreign investment capital in Vietnam in the first three months of this year was US$10.13 billion. According to many foreign enterprises, Vietnam is still the country with the safest and most attractive investment environment in Asia in the coming years. Meanwhile, many domestic enterprises complained that “there were still many thumbtacks under the red carpet".
According to the Foreign Investment Agency under the Ministry of Planning and Investment, foreign investment in Vietnam in the first six months was only US$15.67 billion, accounting for 84.9 percent of that in the same period last year. Of these, $8.44 billion came from 1,418 newly registered projects, up 13.8 percent over the same period.