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The manufacturing and processing sector picked up 10.6%, electricity production and distribution up 9%, water and waste supply and treatment up 7.2% while mining declined 7.5%.
Localities witnessing sharp increases in the industrial production indexes included Thai Nguyen up 21%, Hai Phong up 20.5%, Bac Ninh up 13%, Da Nang up 10.6%, Hai Duong up 9.9%, Ho Chi Minh City up 7.5%, Ha Noi up 6.1% and Vinh Phuc up 5.2%.
By Thuy Dung