Generally for ten months, gross retail sales of consumer goods and services reached 4.123 trillion VND, rising by 1.3% over that in the same period last year, if excluding the price factor, the decrease was 3% (that in the same period in 2019 increased by 9.7%)
In October, the people’s living was still generally stability and there was no locality that reported hunger
Along with tending and harvesting winter paddy, localities across the country basically finished the summer-autumn rice production with the cultivated area reaching 1,944.8 thousand hectares, down by 64.8 thousand hectares compared to the summer-autumn crop in 2019
In October, the northern provinces focus on completing the afforestation at the end of the season, the southern provinces enter the main season of afforestation, and the localities take care of the seedlings and the planted forest area.
The average consumer price index of 10 months of 2020 increased by 3.71% over the same period last year.
Generally for 10 months of 2020, the IIP was estimated to increase by 2.7% over the same period last year, which was lower than the increase of 9.5% in the same period of 2019.
The number of newly established enterprises in October 2020 decreased of 18.4% compared to September 2020, the number of re-operated enterprises rose up 10.4%.
