However, the sector saw the largest import turnover of nearly 28.5 billion USD, leading to its trade deficit of 4 billion USD or 25 percent of the country’s figure.
Over the past year, the sector generated jobs for more than 200,000 labourers, raising the total number of people working in FDI projects in the country to 1.47 million.
According to the MPI, in the context of the global economic crisis, this year’s impressive figures in FDI attraction have proved the international business community’s continued confidence in Vietnam ’s business environment and the government’s inflation control measures.
The ministry, however, forecast that with the unprecedented global economic and financial crisis in the world history, Vietnam ’s FDI attraction in the years to come will be very difficult and the volume of disbursed FDI capital may sharply decrease.
Therefore, solving difficulties for FDI enterprises, both newly-licensed and operational projects, are defined as the focus of state management on foreign investment in 2009.