According to the General Statistics Office (GSO), processing and manufacturing surged 23.8% and electricity production and distribution expanded 15.4 %. Mining saw a 10.5% growth while water supply and waste and wastewater treatment increased 6.8% year on year.High growth rates in January were seen in some industries such as metal ore mining (52.5%), production of electronic products, computers and optical devices (38%), mining of hard coal and lignite (29.1%), metal production (27.1%), apparel production (25.8%), and garments and textiles (23%).Among localities with a major industrial sector, Da Nang city posted a 48 % rise in its IIP, Bac Ninh province (47%), Hai Phong city (31%), Quang Ninh province (29%), Quang Nam province (26%), Ho Chi Minh City (15%), and Hanoi (14%).The Office says since early this month, the numbers of workers in industrial businesses jumped by 4.2% from a year earlier while those in State-owned enterprises dropped by 1.3% and in foreign direct invested enterprises grew by 5.8%.
NDO – The industrial production index (IIP) in the first 11 months of 2017 was reported at a year-on-year increase of 9.3%, which was much higher than the 7.4% growth level of the same period last year, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO). Accordingly, industrial production sectors continued to see high growth, with the manufacturing and processing industry growing 14.4%, contributing 10.1 percentage points to the general IIP growth.The power production and distribution sector surged by 9.6%, contributing 0.6 percentage point, while the water supply and waste and wastewater treatment sector soared by 7.7%, contributing 0.1 percentage point to…... [read more]
The national industrial production index (IPI) expanded by 7.9 percent in January-September, the General Statistics Office (GSO) reported. National industrial production index (IPI) expanded by 7.9 percent in January-September The figure was higher than the IPI growth of 7.1 percent recorded in the same period last year and 7.2 percent in the first eight months of this year. In September alone, the growth was estimated at 13.2 percent as compared with the corresponding time last year. Between January and September, the processing and manufacturing sector posted a surge of 12.8 percent, the highest rise in many years; power production and…... [read more]
Though more than 8,600 local enterprises shut down in the first two 2 months of this year, the local industrial production index rose 6.8 percent year on year. The IIP of the mining industry, processing and manufacturing, electricity production and distribution and water supply and sewage treatment increased 1.8 percent, 7.9 percent, 11.7 percent, and 9.9 percent over the same period last year, respectively, said GSO. Meanwhile, the total output of several industries are on a rise, including battery production (107.1 percent), electrical equipment (51.3 percent), machine spare parts (45.9 percent), fertilizer and nitrogen compound (43.3 percent), footwear (35.9 percent),…... [read more]
PANO - The industrial production index in December increased 5 per cent against last month and 5.9 per cent from the same time last year, according to the General Office of Statistics. For the whole 2012, the industrial production index leapt up by 4.8 per cent from last year, of which mining industry was up by 3.5 per cent, while processing and manufacturing industry and power and gas industry saw a rise of 4.5 per cent and 12.3 per cent, respectively. In general, industrial production met a number of difficulties in 2012 due to negative impacts of the slowdown of…... [read more]
According to the General Statistics Office (GSO), the national industrial production index rose only 4.3% compared to the same period last year, which was far lower than the 10% in 2011 and 7.9% in 2010. Notably, some provinces and cities directly under the central Government with a large industrial scale posted low growth rates, including Hanoi with 4.1%, HCMC 3.7%, Danang 2.4%, Dong Nai 6.7%, Hai Duong 5.9% and Binh Duong 5.7%. The office pointed out that the nation's coal production was hard hit by slow consumption on both local and overseas markets. Coal volume dropped 3.3% against the previous…... [read more]
