HCM City: investment capital up 48% in Q1

VGP – Ho Chi Minh City attracted US$381.7 million in newly-registered and additional capital in processing and industrial parks in the first quarter of 2015, up 48.5% against the same period last year.

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Of the figure, the foreign and domestic investment reached US$345.49 million and US$36.2 million, up 43.7% and 118%, respectively.

These processing and industrial parks earned US$1.1 billion from exporting in the first quarter, up 8.61%.

Currently, as many as 1,342 valid projects, with a total investment of US$8.7 billion, have been launched in the city, including 536 foreign-invested ones, worth US$5.22 billion.

By Thuy Dung