Hanoi’s H1 GDP up 10.1pct

Hanoi City People’s Committee recently reported that its industrial production value in first half of 2010 was estimated to surge 13.9 percent year-on-year, in which the contribution of foreign invested enterprises (FIEs) would be up 15.9 percent, private firms +15.4 percent and state companies +8 percent.

Total sales turnover of Hanoi in the period has grown by 27.8 percent, of which the retailing sales jumped 28.2 percent over same period of 2009.

Hanoi’s total social investment capital totals about 69.475 trillion dong, a year-on-year soar of 16.5 percent. There are 140 foreign invested projects increased in capital size and licensed newly with total $100 million.

Reportedly, the city’s CPI till late May rose by 4.9 percent as compared with last December. Also, total number of tourists to Hanoi surged 13.3 percent to 4.53 million people, including 580,000 international visitors, up 12 percent y-o-y.

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Posted by VBN on Jun 14 2010. Filed under Economy News, GDP. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry