Wednesday, 10:26, 09/06/2021 The Hanoi People’s Committee recently issued a directive on improving the city’s Provincial Competitiveness Index (PCI) in 2021, given the fact that many of its sub-indexes have tended towards decline even though its overall position in the national rankings has remained unchanged in recent years. For the third year in a row the capital city stood in ninth place among Vietnam’s 63 cities and provinces in the 2020 PCI rankings, with a total score of 66.93 points, up 1.13 points from 2019. The rankings were unveiled earlier this year by the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) and the US Agency for International Development (USAID).