2025, opening up substantial opportunities for businesses to develop a
Experts, however, have said that the production capacity of the existing supporting industry remains poor, especially in terms of capital, technology, and experience. Production and the business environment also lack breakthrough policies.
According to the Vietnam Association of Supporting Industries (VASI), there are more than 350 enterprises in the automobile supporting industry around the country, of which some 80 percent are foreign-invested. Most of the domestic players are of small scale and have difficulties accessing capital to invest in technology, while links between them remain poor.
Luong Duc Toan, deputy head of the Division of Processing and Manufacturing under the Ministry of Industry and Trade’s Industry Department, said Vietnam’s automobile industry exhibits many limitations because domestic market demand is still modest, raising production costs compared to elsewhere in the region.
A foreign-invested garment factory in Vietnam (Photo: VNA)
HCM City (VNA) – Leaders of
European businesses
have started 2021 with optimism about the trade and investment environment in
Vietnam, according the
Business Climate Index (BCI) for the first quarter of 2021
released by the
The index reached 73.9 points in Q1, the highest
score recorded since Q3 of 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the
global trade and investment system.
The BCI survey also showed the sustained optimism about the
business climate, up 47 points over the last 12 months.
When asked about Vietnam’s business climate outlook for Q2
this year, 67 percent of the European enterprises considered it “excellent”
From January-April,
exports totalled 103.9 billion USD, an
increase of 28.3 percent against the same period last year.
The domestic sector exported 25.76 billion USD worth of goods
and services, up 12.8 percent year-on-year and accounting for 24.8 percent of
the total overseas shipments, while the foreign-invested sector contributed 78.14 billion USD, up 34.4
percent and representing 75.2 percent of the total.
Highest growth was seen in the heavy industry and mining sector, which generated 57.58 billion USD in export revenue, a year-on-year rise of 33
percent. It was followed by the light and craft industries, 27.5 percent; and
agriculture and forestry, 8.8 percent.
The US was Vietnam’s largest buyer during the period, with a value of 30.3 billion USD, up 50.1 percent year-on-year. China came second, purchasing 16.8 billion USD worth of goods and services from Vietnam, up
Birds build nests on vertical cliffs in a cave on Cham Islands. (Photo: Quang Nam Newspaper)
Quang
Nam (VNS/VNA) - After four years of preparations, the National
Office of Intellectual Property of Vietnam has granted Geographical
Indication (GI) to the Cham Islands
The Hoi An city People’s Committee, which has jurisdiction over the
islands, said the product contributed 20 percent to the city’s Gross Regional
Domestic Product (GRDP) annually.
A report from the Ministry of Science and Technology said the bird s nests
are seen as one of the best products in Vietnam due to their high nutritional
value with 50 percent protein.