Vietnam attracted $8.47 billion in foreign direct investment (FDI)
during the first eight months of 2012, equal to 66.1 percent of the previous
year’s figure.
The Foreign Investment Agency
said that as of August 20, the country had licensed 672 more FDI projects with
total registered capital of $5.52 billion, and approved 244 existing projects
with their additional investment of $2.95 billion.
About $7.28 billion of FDI had
been disbursed in the reviewed period, 99.7 percent of the figure for the same
period last year.
The newly-licensed projects are
primarily focused in the processing, manufacturing, real estate, retail,
transport and healthcare sectors.
The southern province of Binh
Duong led the nation in attracting FDI, with US$1.84 billion, followed by Hai
Phong ($1.05 billion), Dong Nai ($972.8 million), Ho Chi Minh City ($922.9
million), Bac Giang ($902.7 million), and Hanoi ($413.1 million).
Japan is currently Vietnam’s
largest foreign investor with newly-invested and expanded projects worth $4.33
billion, accounting for 51.1 percent of the total investment in the Southeast
Asian country.
It’s worth noting that most of
the FDI projects licensed in the past eight months were small and medium scale
with less than $1 billion each.
VOV
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