In the past 11 months, newly registered foreign investment capital increased by 3.76%, while additional capital increased by 26.7% over the same period. Including capital contribution and share purchase, the whole country attracted 26.46 billion USD.
The Foreign Investment Department (Ministry of Planning and Investment) has just said that, as of November 20, 2021, the total newly registered capital, adjusted and contributed capital to buy shares, buy capital contributions from investors. foreign investment reached 26.46 billion USD, a slight increase of 0.1% over the same period in 2020.
Thus, foreign investment in Vietnam continues to increase, although the growth rate is not high.
However, that is the case, and if calculated separately, it can be seen that newly registered capital and especially additional capital continued to maintain an impressive increase over the same period.
Specifically, the Foreign Investment Agency said that in the past 11 months, 1,577 new projects have been granted investment registration certificates, with a total registered capital of nearly 14.1 billion USD, up 3.76% compared to same period last year.
Along with that, there were 877 times of projects registered to adjust their investment capital, with the total additional registered capital reaching over US$8 billion, up 26.7% over the same period. This is a positive increase in the context that global investment flows are still declining.
In contrast, capital contribution and share purchase only reached nearly 4.4 billion USD, down 33% over the same period. It is the sharp decrease of the investment capital through capital contribution and share purchase that has pulled the total registered investment capital into Vietnam in the past 11 months to only 0.1%. The sharp decline in capital contribution and share purchase is largely due to the impact of the global M&A market due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
However, contrary to the increasing trend of registered capital, disbursed investment capital continued to decrease. In 11 months, disbursed foreign investment capital was estimated at 17.1 billion USD, down 4.2% over the same period in 2020. Due to the impact of the Covid-19 epidemic, disbursed capital has decreased thus. But according to the Foreign Investment Department, the pandemic is gradually being controlled; The Government and functional agencies promptly intervened, promulgated many solutions and policies to remove difficulties and obstacles; enterprises are also gradually restoring production and business activities. This will support disbursement of foreign investment capital in the near future.
From another angle, the Foreign Investment Agency said that in the past 11 months, foreign investors have invested in 18 industries out of a total of 21 national economic sectors.
In which, the processing and manufacturing industry leads the way with a total investment of over 14 billion USD, accounting for 53% of the total registered investment capital. Although the electricity production and distribution industry has attracted a small number of new projects, adjustments as well as capital contribution and share purchase, with a large project scale, it ranks second with a total investment capital of over 5, 7 billion USD, accounting for 21.6% of total registered investment capital.
Next, are the real estate, wholesale and retail businesses, respectively, with a total registered capital of 2.41 billion USD and 1.27 billion USD respectively. The rest are other industries.
In terms of partners, 100 countries and territories have invested in Vietnam in the first 11 months of 2021.
In which, Singapore leads with a total investment of over 7.6 billion USD, accounting for 28.7% of total investment capital in Vietnam, down 5.9% over the same period in 2020; South Korea ranked second with 4.36 billion USD, accounting for 16.5% of total investment capital, up 17.6% over the same period. Japan ranked third with a total registered investment capital of 3.7 billion USD[1], accounting for nearly 14% of total investment capital, up 54% over the same period. Followed by China, Hong Kong, Taiwan,…
Nguyen Duc (baodautu.vn)