According to the Statistics Office, registered foreign direct investment (FDI) in Vietnam totalled USD 50.36 billion as of September 30, up 76.4 per cent from the same period last year. The figure includes newly registered capital, additional capital and foreign investors' capital contributions and share purchases.
Ho Chi Minh City High-Tech Park (Photo: DT).
A total of 3,108 new projects were licensed during the period, with registered capital of USD 29.24 billion. The number of new projects rose 6.2 per cent, while registered capital was 2.4 times higher than a year earlier.
Manufacturing and processing remained the leading recipient of newly registered FDI, attracting USD 13.38 billion, or 45.8 per cent of the total. Transport and storage ranked second with USD 5.14 billion, or 17.6 per cent, while other sectors accounted for USD 10.71 billion, or 36.6 per cent.
Singapore was the largest source of newly registered FDI among 79 countries and territories investing in Vietnam during the period, with USD 9.26 billion, or 31.7 per cent of the total.
South Korea followed with USD 5.7 billion, accounting for 19.5 per cent, followed by Luxembourg with USD 4.99 billion (17.1 per cent), Hong Kong with USD 3.01 billion (10.3 per cent), China with USD 2.27 billion (7.8 per cent), Japan with USD 1.56 billion (5.3 per cent) and the Netherlands with USD 438.5 million (1.5 per cent).
Ho Chi Minh City led the country in newly registered FDI, attracting more than USD 18.22 billion during the first nine months, across 1,593 newly licensed projects.
Thai Nguyen ranked second with more than USD 7.9 billion, followed by Bac Ninh with more than USD 4.2 billion. Hanoi attracted more than USD 4.1 billion, Haiphong more than USD 3.08 billion and Nghe An more than USD 2.4 billion.
Meanwhile, 948 existing projects received approval to increase their investment capital, with additional funding totalling USD 14.15 billion, up 25.1 per cent year on year.
The Foreign Investment Agency estimated that disbursed FDI reached USD 21.07 billion in the first nine months, up 12.1 per cent from the same period last year. It was the highest nine-month disbursement recorded in the past five years.
Manufacturing and processing accounted for the largest share of disbursed FDI at USD 17.40 billion, or 82.6 per cent of the total. Real estate business attracted USD 1.59 billion, or 7.5 per cent, while electricity, gas, hot water, steam and air-conditioning production and distribution received USD 723.4 million, or 3.4 per cent.
