Hanoi (VNA) – Some 60 percent of local enterprises in asurvey expect their business to do better in the second quarter of 2018 againstthe first quarter.
The General Statistics Office (GSO) said this on March 29 while releasing theresults of the survey on business trends of manufacturing and manufacturingenterprises in the first quarter of 2018.
According to the survey, 33 percent of businesses said they had better businessperformance in the first quarter compared to the previous quarter, while 24.6percent of them faced difficulties in doing business and 42.4 percent of themsaid their businesses were stable.
In the second quarter of this year, 55.7 percent of surveyed enterprises expecttheir businesses to do better, while 10.4 percent of them predict difficultiesand 33.9 percent of the enterprises expect stable business.
The GSO also said in the first quarter of this year, 26,785 newly establishedenterprises were registered, with a total capital of 278.5 trillion VND, up 1.2percent in terms of the number of enterprises and 2.7 percent in terms ofregistered capital year-on-year. - VNA
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