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FDI in Ho Chi Minh City doubles

The flow of foreign direct investment (FDI) into Ho Chi Minh City thus far this year has reached 2.5 billion USD, up 2.3 times from the same period last year, according to the municipal People’s Committee.
The flow of foreign direct investment (FDI) into Ho Chi Minh Citythus far this year has reached 2.5 billion USD, up 2.3 times from thesame period last year, according to the municipal People’s Committee.

The city has licensed 284 new projects witha total investment of 2.02 billion USD, up 35.2 percent and 210 percentannually, respectively.

Anadditional 456.5 million USD was injected into 89 ongoing projects, anannual increase of 410 percent in capital and 48.3 percent in the numberof projects.

The majority of thecapital is in real estate sector investments with four projects worth1.31 billion USD, followed by industrial projects with 491.9 million USDand trade projects with 112.5 million USD, among others.

The UK is currently the biggest investor in the city with fiveprojects worth 1.2 billion USD, accounting for 59.2 percent of the newregistered capital.

The British Virgin Islandtrails the UK with 7 projects worth 306.5 million USD or 15.1 percent,followed by the Republic of Korea with 61 projects and 210.5 million USDand Singapore with 47 projects and 100.8 million USD.

As many as 19 projects worth 69.7 million USD were dissolved or halted in the reviewed period.-VNA
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