AsemconnectVietnam - Total realized social investment capital in the first Quarter of 2018 at current prices was fairly good with 331.2 trillion dongs, up 10.4% over the identical period last year and equaling 32.2% of GDP, of which the State sector’s capital gained 104.6 trillion dongs, accounting for 31.6% of the total capital and increasing by 4.4% from the same period last year.

The non-State sector’s capital obtained 138.8 trillion dongs, taking 41.9% and growing by 16.9%. The FDI sector’s capital attained 87.8 trillion dongs, representing 26.5% and moving up by 8.1%.

Total realized investment capital under the State budget in the first Quarter of 2018 increased fairly with an estimate of 48.7 trillion dongs, equalling 14.4% of the annual plan and up 9.2% against the first Quarter of 2017 (in the similar period last year it grew by 3.6%), of which the capital under central management obtained 9.6 trillion dongs, equalling 14.6% of the annual plan and up 4.2% compared with the same period last year. The capital under local management achieved 39.1 trillion dongs, equalling 14.3% of the annual plan and up 10.5%.

From the beginning of the year to March 20, 2018, FDI attracted 618 newly licensed projects with the total registered capital of US$ 2121.6 million, up 25.4% in the number of projects and down 27.3% in the registered capital against the similar period in 2017. Besides, there were 199 turns of license-granted projects from previous years registered to adjust investment capital with the additional capital of US$ 1789.9 million, down 54.6% from the same period last year.

Thus, the total of newly registered capital and additional capital in three months reached US$ 3911.5 million, down 43% from 2017’s same period. Realized FDI capital in three months was estimated at US$ 3888 million, increasing by 7.2% over the identical period in 2017. In the first three months of 2018, there were 1285 turns of capital contribution and share purchase of foreign investors with a total capital contribution of US$ 1890.1 million, a growth of 121.6% against the same period in 2017, of which 732 turns of capital contribution and share purchase increased the charter capital of enterprises with the contributed capital of US$ 1.34 billion and 553 turns of foreign investors bought back domestic shares without increasing charter capital with the value of US$ 547.8 million.

Regarding Vietnam’s direct investment abroad, in the first Quarter of 2018, the whole country had 23 projects newly granted the Outward Investment Registration Certificate with Vietnam’s total investment capital of US$ 123.6 million, in addition, there were 5 capital adjustment projects with additional capital of US$ 25.9 million.
Generally, Vietnam’s total offshore investment capital in the first Quarter of this year gained US$ 149.5 million, of which the field of finance and banking reached US$ 105 million, accounting for 70.2% of the total investment capital; the field of manufacturing achieved US$ 19.9 million, representing 13.3%; the field of real estate business obtained US$ 12 million, taking 8%; the field of wholesale and retail trade achieved US$ 8.5 million, accounting for 5.7%.

Source: General Statistics Office