Dong Nai lures over $3.5 billion in first eight months.

10:09, 02/09/2008

(ĐN)- In the first eight months of this year, Dong Nai attracted more than $2.5 billion worth of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), tripling the figure of the same period last year and achieving 167 percent of the year’s plan.

(ĐN)- In the first eight months of this year, Dong Nai attracted more than $2.5 billion worth of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), tripling the figure of the same period last year and achieving 167 percent of the year’s plan. Dong Nai is so far home to 947 licensed FDI projects by investors from 31 countries and territories around the word with a total registered capital of $14.1 billion.

 

At the same time, the province granted licenses to many domestic investment projects with a combined registered capital of VND16 trillion (approximately $1 billion), an increase of 1.6 times over the same period in 2007. 

 

From the beginning of the year until now, the private economic sector in Dong Nai  increased investment capital by VND11 trillion, reaching 61 percent of the year’s target. At present, there are 7,685 privately owned enterprises operating in Dong Nai with a total invested capital of nearly VND45 trillion.

Reported by K.L