The Covid-19 pandemic continues to be complicated, especially in the southern provinces, causing the total retail sales and consumer service revenue in the nine months of 2021 to decrease in all economic activities. Total retail sales of consumer goods and services in the nine months of 2021 decreased by 7.1% over the same period last year, if excluding the price factor, it decreased by 8.7%.
Agricultural production in recent years has achieved great achievements. The biggest achievement is to ensure national food security, from a country with a backward agriculture to become a country with a commodity agriculture, with a significant position in the region and in the world.
In the past time, the livestock industry has faced many difficulties because it has had to prevent epidemics in livestock, poultry and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, so the consumption of livestock products has been slowed down, the selling price of livestock products has decreased while the price of animal feed continued to high increase, causing farmers to struggle. Those are the main reason why it is difficult for farmers to stabilize production.
The Covid-19 pandemic was gradually brought under control, the progress of vaccination against the Covid-19 pandemic achieved positive results and the Government's Resolution No. 128/NQ-CP dated October 11, 2021 was issued in a timely manner. Due to the continued implementation of the dual goal of "epidemic prevention and socio-economic development", the total retail sales of consumer goods and services in October improved significantly compared to the previous month.
Gender equality means that men and women have equal positions and roles, are given conditions and opportunities to develop their capacities for the development of the community and family and equally enjoy the achievements of the community. that development.
In October this year, import and export activities continued to recover. Total import and export turnover reached 55 billion USD, growed up 2.4% compared to September and went up 6.9% compared to the same period last year. Generally in 10 months, the total import and export turnover of goods continued to maintain a high growth rate, reaching 539.42 billion USD, went up 22.6% compared to the same period last year.
The total value of import and export turnover of goods in 11 months of 2021 reached 602 billion USD, an increase of 22.9%, corresponding to an increase of 112.2 billion USD in absolute numbers compared to the same period in 2020.
Gross domestic product (GDP) in the fourth quarter of 2021 was estimated to increase by 5.22% over the same period last year, although higher than the growth rate of 4.61% in 2020 but lower than the growth rate of the fourth quarter of previous years. 2011-2019
In December of 2021, Consumer price index (CPI) decrease by 0.18% compared to the previous month, an increase in 1.81% compared to December 2020
Industrial production in the fourth quarter of 2021 prospered right with a value-added growth rate of 6.52% over the same period last year
