Từ khóa: #economic recovery

High lending interest rates will challenge the target of controlling inflation as well as production and business activities.

HCMC needs to overcome two immediate problems: institutional bottlenecks must be removed to absorb investment capital from all economic sectors, and the government must actually accompany businesses to strengthen the market's confidence.

The quick recovery of Ho Chi Minh City in 2022 after the 4th Covid-19 pandemic outbreak has formed a strong foundation to complete its 5-year plan from 2020 and to maintain its leading position in the national socio-economic development.

Opportunely issued Resolution 128/NQ and Resolution 43/QH15 contributed significantly to successes in 2022.

To support enterprises to overcome difficulties as well as accelerate development, there should be synchronous support of many policies, said Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City Union of Business Association, Nguyen Ngoc Hoa.

In 2023, Vietnam and Australia will celebrate 50 years of diplomatic relations and work towards the goal set by the two countries’ leaders to elevate the relationship to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership.

The year 2022 has been a mixed picture of low public investment with not much room for a robust monetary policy.

The efforts of Vietnam to improve the business – investment environment lately have attracted more remittances into manufacturing and trading activities, greatly contributing to the national economic growth.

Although the Vietnamese economy made a strong recovery right after the Covid-19 pandemic, this growth is now facing many challenges and the pace is not accelerating as expected. 

Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Phan Van Mai stressed in the meeting about the city’s socio-economic status in the last 2 months of 2022 that completing the budget revenue target for 2023 is a challenging mission for HCMC now that the economic health of this quarter is on the wane. This has asked for more precise evaluation of the current status to devise suitable measures to fulfill that mission.

In the first 9 months of 2022, the State applied various policies to extend tax payment time for businesses in hope of quicker economic recovery speed. This financial aid is worth tens of thousands of VND.

Now that the domestic market is strongly recovering, shopping demands at the end of this year are expected to significantly rise. Therefore, since the beginning of this quarter, many food processing businesses have sought suitable input sources and increased their manufacturing activities in hope of offering more competitive retailed prices for their products.

Standard Chartered Bank has raised its Vietnam GDP growth forecast for 2022 to 7.5 percent from the previous 6.7 percent and for 2023 to 7.2 percent from 7.0 percent to reflect robust Q3 growth of 13.7 percent year-on-year. The last quarter 2022 growth is anticipated at 4.0 percent.

Nguyen Duc Lenh, Deputy Director of the State Bank of Vietnam - Ho Chi Minh City Branch, said that by the end of September 2022, credit growth in the city is estimated to increase by 12 percent compared to the end of 2021, a sharp increase of 4.97 percent (in 2021), 4.99 percent (in 2020), and 10.2 percent (in 2019), respectively, compared to the same period in the previous three years.

A delegation of the Central Party Committee led by Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, on September 23, had a working session with the Standing Committee of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee on the situation and results of the implementation of socio-economic development, national defense and security, Party building in HCMC after the 13th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam and the 11th HCMC Party Congress, and main missions in the coming time.

Ho Chi Minh City's economic sectors continued to have good growth rates in August. Industrial production activities have recovered and attracted laborers to return to work; Many enterprises have effectively exploited free trade agreements to expand their markets.