According to the report of the General Statistics Office, sources of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the first 7 months of this year increased by nearly 20% compared to the same period last year. This is a high growth rate compared to the other months of the year.

Specifically, according to the General Statistics Office, the attraction of foreign direct investment since the beginning of time 20-7 to the country over U.S. $ 11.9 billion, up 19.6% compared to the same period last year.
In particular, the registered capital of 677 newly licensed projects was nearly 7 billion U.S. dollars, compared with the same period last year, although the number of projects decreased by 6.5% but increased the registered capital to 10%. Also, during this period there were 266 active projects registered to add more than 4.99 billion U.S. dollars, up 36.2% over the same period.
In total registered capital of foreign direct investment in seven months this year, processing industry - manufacture more than 10.44 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for 87.6%. This field is also always keep the leading position in the past year as the real estate sector in trouble.
When the "iceberg" property not tan, FDI flows in recent years have returned to the field of industrial manufacturing projects with large-scale investment and this trend is expected to continue to increase as Businesses Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore ... said it would continue to invest in Vietnam.
However, analysts said that there are still many obstacles to investing in this sector in Vietnam as missing ancillary industries and wages are rising. The fact is though exports of industrial goods increased in recent years, but the value of imports to serve production also increased correspondingly.
On the other hand, in the national top 10 largest investor in Vietnam in the first 7 months of this year the partners lack of modern production technology from European countries.
Real estate business in the past 7 months by the General Statistics Office reached U.S. $ 580.8 million, up 4.9%. The remaining industries reached U.S. $ 889.3 million, up 7.5%.
In terms of partners, Japan remains the largest investor in the past 7 months, with nearly 4.1 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for 34.4%. Next, Singapore and Russia respectively 3.72 billion and 1.01 billion U.S. dollars.
In the past 7 months, the country has 46 provinces and cities have projects of foreign direct investment are licensed, which may Taiyuan largest registered capital of more than 2.14 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for 44 , 8% of the total newly registered capital (through project production and assembly of electronic products conglomerate Samsung with registered capital of 2 billion U.S. dollars), followed by Binh Dinh on $ 1 billion U.S., accounting for 21.1%; Hai Duong 611.6 million, up 12.8%, Pacific 460.7 million, up 9.6%; Dong Nai 338.8 million, accounted for 7.1% ...
According to this report, 7 months in total estimated disbursements of U.S. $ 6.65 billion, up 6.4% over the same period in 2012.
Hương Thủy (Source: KTSG)