Industrial parks (IPs) under provincial IPs Management Board (except VSIP I, II) have so far absorbed 726 businesses, including 487 foreign-funded businesses and 239 domestic ones. Noticeably, they worked effectively in the first nine months of this year with a total revenue of more than US$3.4bln, up 23% compared to the corresponding period of last year or 89% of this year’s plan. Of these, the foreign-invested sector gained nearly US$2.4bln, up 24% against the same period last year while the domestic-invested sector achieved more than US$1bln, up 24% against the same period last year.

 

Also during the time, these IPs paid more than US$86mln for State budget, up 22% over the last year’s same period or 90% of this year’s plan. Of the total figure, nearly US$72mln was contributed by the foreign-invested sector, up 21% and more than US$14mln came from the domestic-invested sector, up 21 compared to the last year’s same period.

 

Reported by Trong Minh-Translated by K.T