The number of enterprises resuming their operations has increased
considerably in the January – August period, the Nhan Dan (People)
online newspaper reported.
According to the General
Statistics Office (GSO), in the last eight-month period, 10,900
enterprises have restored their operations, an increase of 2.6 percent
over the same period in 2013.
Notably, in August alone, as many
as 1,496 enterprises have come back into operation, up 35.2 percent
compared to last month. However, this month saw a decrease in the number
of newly-established enterprises and registered capital with 5,052
enterprises and 27.3 trillion VND, down 0.6 percent and 13.2 percent
respectively when compared with July.
In the January – August
period, 47,000 enterprises have been set up with a total registered
capital of 289.8 trillion VND, down 9.5 percent in the number of
enterprises established but up 14.2 percent in registered capital
against the corresponding period last year. The average registered
capital per enterprise was 6.1 billion VND, a year-on-year increase of
26.2 percent.
The report from the GSO indicates that in the last
eight months the electricity, water and gas production and supply
sectors were among the sectors displaying the most positive economic
signs as the number of newly-established enterprises went up by 12.4
percent and the number of un-operational or dissolved enterprises fell
by 27.9 percent.
In the meantime, several sectors still face many
difficulties such as the wholesale, retail, automobile repair, tourism,
job services among others.-VNA