Workers at a rubber products factory in HCM City’s Tan Quy Industrial Zone (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) - Nearly 26,500 enterprises were created in the firstquarter of this year with a total registered capital of over 270 trillion VND (11.8billion USD), according to preliminary data reported on March 27 in Hanoi bythe Ministry of Planning and Investment’s Enterprises Development Department.
The number of newly-established firms rose 11.4 percent and 45.8 percent incapital value compared to the same period last year, the department reported.In March alone, the number of newly-registered firms is estimated at over12,000, the highest level in six years.
But in the first quarter, some 9,900 enterprises temporarily ceasedoperations, 10,700 enterprises are in the process of filing for dissolution,nearly 3,700 enterprises have completed procedures for dissolution ortermination, up 12 percent year-on-year. The majority of businesses thatwithdrew from the market are small firms.
Many firms suspended their activities in order to find new directions orprepare new business plans, said Tran Ngoc Nam, deputy director of the Hanoi Departmentof Planning and Investment.
According to the Enterprises Development Department, the average registeredcapital per enterprise in the first quarter of 2017 reached 10.2 billion VND,up 30.9 percent over the same period of 2016.
Existing businesses have registered to increase their capital to over 320trillion VND, bringing total capital poured into the economy in the firstquarter of 2017 to nearly 600 trillion VND, up 8 percent year-on-year.
The number of businesses resuming operations exceeded 9,200 in the firstquarter of 2017, double the number in the first quarter of 2014. More than 90percent out of some 110,000 businesses registered in 2016 declared and paidtaxes, indicating that they were already in operation, the department said.-VNA
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Workers at a rubber products factory in HCM City’s Tan Quy Industrial Zone (Photo: VNA) 
