Hanoi (VNA) – The country had 79,300newly-established businesses with a combined registered capital of 999.4trillion VND (42.97 billion USD) in January – July, representing year-on-yearincreases of 4.6 percent and 29.6 percent, respectively.
The average registered capital of eachnewly-established firm was 12.6 billion VND, up 23.9 percent, the highest levelin recent years.
As many as 24,300 businesses resumed operation,up 29.9 percent against the same period last year.
In the economic sector, 1,100 businesses wereestablished in agriculture, forestry and aquaculture, 21,600 in industry andconstruction, and 56,600 in services, accounting for 1.4 percent, 27.2 percentand 71.4 percent respectively of the total newly-established firms.
Major economic regions reported an increasingnumber of newly-established businesses such as the Red River Delta (7.2 percent),the north-central and central coastal region (6.8 percent), and the CentralHighlands (10.3 percent).-VNA