Viet Nam continues to implement measures to prevent and control the COVID-19 epidemic, so international visitors to Viet Nam in the third quarter of 2020 were mostly international experts and technicians working for projects in Viet Nam.
Viet Nam’s socio-economic situation took place in the context of Covid-19 epidemic that is booming globally, seriously affecting all countries in the world.
In the morning, September 29th, 2020, GSO held a press conference to announce the report on socio-economic situations in the third quarter and 9 months of 2020
Gross domestic product (GDP) in the third quarter of 2020 is estimated to increase by 2.62% over the same period last year, which is the lowest increase of every third quarter in the period 2011-2020.
Vietnam's merchandise import and export continued to reach a trade surplus of nearly 17 billion USD in 9 months, this trade surplus was 2.6 times higher than the same period in 2018 and 2.3 times higher than the same period in 2019.
The General Statistics Office held a training on pilot survey of the 2021 Economic Census at four provinces and cities directly under the Central Government, namely Hanoi, Hai Phong, Phu Yen and Tien Giang.
