According to the Foreign Investment Agency’s announcement (MPI), in 8 months of 2015, the total new and additional FDI registered capital is 13.33 billion US dollars, up 30.4% over the same period in 2014.
Specifically, there were 1,219 new projects which were granted investment certificates, with total registered capital of 7.87 billion USD, up 8.7% from the same period in 2014. Of these, there are 389 projects respectively to register capital increase with a total registered capital of increase is 5.46 billion USD, up 82.8% over the same period of 2014.
In the past 8 months, foreign investors have invested in 17 sectors. In particular, the processing and manufacturing industry is the sector attracting the most interest with total new and additional capital of 10.35 billion US dollars, accounting for 77.7% of total registered capital.
The real estate business ranks second with a total investment of newly registered and additional capital of 1.82 billion USD, accounting for 13.7% of total investment capital.
No. 3 is the field of wholesale, retail and repair with a total investment of newly registered and additional capital of 311.08 million USD.
In terms of countries, the Korean leader in FDI in Vietnam in 8 months of 2015, with total investment of newly registered and additional capital of 5.26 billion USD, accounting for 39.5% of total investment in Vietnam.
UK ranks 2nd with a capital of US$ 1.25 billion accounting for 9.39% of the total investment and the British Virgin Islands ranks third with a total investment of newly registered and additional capital of 973.6 million USD, accounting 7.3% of the total investment …
Bac Ninh province leads on attracting investors, with a total investment of newly registered and additional capital of 3.33 billion USD representing 25% of total registered capital. Ho Chi Minh City ranks No. 2 with total newly registered and additional capital of 2.42 billion USD, accounting for 18.2%.
Notably, Dong Thap and Bac Lieu do not have any FDI projects.
The biggest project is project of Samsung Display Vietnam Co., Ltd (Yen Phong Indsutrial Park, Bac Ninh province) with additional capital of 3 billion USD.
Source: http://vietlaw4u.com/
Key words: FDI capital, of 8 months, increase, 7.6%
