The Covid-19 pandemic was well controlled in the country, the EU and Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) has been implemented, so industrial production in the fourth quarter of 2020 has prospered with an increase in value added by 4.8% over the same period last year
The price of domestic petroleum, gas increased according to the world fuel price; the rice price increased in line with the exported rice price and the increased consumer demand at the end of the year were factors that made the consumer price index in December 2020 up 0.1% over the previous month and up 0.19% over the same period last year.
In 11 months of 2020, the total number of newly established enterprises had nearly 124.3 thousand enterprises, decrease of 1.9% compared to the same period in last year; however the average registered capital of a newly established enterprise rose by 21.7%.
Generally for 11 months of 2020, the IIP was estimated to increase by 3.1% over the same period last year
Generally for 11 months of 2020, the whole country had 16.5 thousand households suffering from food shortage, fell by 75.9% over the same period last year, corresponding to 66.5 thousand persons suffering from food shortage, dropped 76.1%.
CPI in November 2020 decreased by 0.01% over the previous month, increased by 1.48% over the same period last year and was the lowest increase level of November in the period of 2016-2020.
As of mid-November, the country harvested 1,424.7 thousand hectares of winter paddy, accounted for 89.9% of cultivated area, equal to 98.1% in comparison with that over the same period last year
Generally for 11 months, passengers carried still decreased of 29.7% and freight carried fell by 6.2%. International visitors arrival to our country reached nearly 3.8 million, down 76.6%
Generally, in 11 months of 2020, gross retail sales of consumer goods and services increased slightly by 2%.
Agricultural production in the month focused mainly on harvesting winter paddy in the country, cultivating winter annual crops in Northern provinces and preparing to sow early winter-spring paddy 2021.
