These numbers represented a 7 percentyear-on-year reduction in the number of new businesses but a 53.8 percentincrease in capital.
In January, the average registered capital perenterprise reached 15 billion VND, up 64.8 percent, while the number ofregistered employees at newly established enterprises was 107,914, an increaseof 26.5 percent compared to the same period last year.
During the month, total registered capital ofenterprises was 635.1 trillion VND, a year on year increase of 0.8 percent,including 151.1 trillion VND from the new firms and 484 trillion VND (up 121.9percent) from existing enterprises adding capital.
As many as 8,465 firms resumed operations inJanuary, up 84.5 percent against the same period last year, raising the totalnumber of businesses newly established and resuming operations to over 18,500.
The number of enterprises which havecompleted disclosure procedures rose by 16 percent to 1,802.
However, 10,804 companies temporarily suspended operations, up 25.3 percentyear on year.
In January, there were 4,767 businesses not operating at their registeredaddress. This is a new criterion for 2019.-VNA