Wednesday, 19/03/2014 8:06:25 (GMT+7)

Official figure of FDI in Vietnam in 2013: US$22.35 billion

According to the official announcement of Foreign Investment Agency (Ministry of Planning and Investment), total newly-registered and additional FDI capital hit US$22.35 billion in 2013, an increase of 35.9% compared with the same period of 2012.

The latest report of Foreign Investment Agency (Ministry of Planning and Investment) showed the whole country attracted 1.530 newly-licensed projects, totalling US$14.48 billion, a year-on-year rise of 66.8%.

Newly-registered and additional capital reached US$22.35 billion in total in 2013, a year-on-year increase of 35.9%

Besides, there were 590 projects with total additional capital of US$7.86 billion, a rise of 1.4% compared with the corresponding period of 2012.

In 2013, the newly-registered and additional FDI capital was US$22.35 billion, a year-on-year increase of 35.9%.

This figure is much higher than the number of US$21.6 billion, which was announced by Foreign Investment Agency in the end of 2013 after updating on December 15th, 2013.

The  2013’s updated data indicated that Japan topped the list of FDI projects with total newly-registered and additional capital of US$5.875 billion, accounting for 26.3% of total registered investment capital in Vietnam.

The followings were Singapore (US$4.76 billion, hoding 21.3%) and Korea (US$4.46 billion, hoding 20% of total registered capital).

In 2013, Thai Nguyen province topped the list of provinces attracting FDI capital with total newly-registered and additional capital of US$3.4 billion (15.2%) as Samsung Group speeded up its investment.

Meanwhile, an increase of US$2.8 billion from Nghi son Refinery and Petrochemical complex project made Thanh Hoa province be ranked the second position with US$2.924 billion, hoding 13.1% of total. Followed by Hai Phong with US$ 2.614 billion (about 11.7% of total registered capital), of that figure, the capital of LG Group’s projects (Korea) reached US$1.5 billion.

According to Foreign Investment Agency, there was a significant rise of the newly-registered projects of more than US$1 billion in 2013, making total newly-registered capital increase 66.8% compared with the same period of 2012.

Specifically, of the 1,530 newly-registered projects, Vietnam fetched 5 over-US$1billion-projects, accounting for 53.5 % of the full-year newly- registered capital. The rest of 47.5% was medium- and- small-sized projects, in which the projects of over US$10 million held 9% in terms of quantity and 35% in terms of capital.

The projects of at most US$1 million accounted for 59.3% in terms of quantiy but 2% in terms of capital.

2013’s FDI capital for disbursement reached US$11.5 billion, up 9.9% compared with the same period of 2012.

According to Nguyen Duc – Investment Newspaper