Viet Nam attracted US$22.8 billion in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in 2015 and disbursed US$14.5 billion in the capital, witnessing respective year-on-year increases of 2.5% and 17.4%, according to the Foreign Investment Agency, under the Ministry of Planning and Investment.
As of December 20, 2,013 projects were licensed with a total registered capital of US$15.578 billion and 814 projects added capital of US$7.18 billion.
Manufacturing, processingluremostFDI
The manufacturing and processing sectorlured mostFDI withUS$15.23 billion in 955 newly-registered projects and 517 with additionalcapital, accounting for 66.9% of the total capital.
The electricity production and distribution and real estate came insecond and third with US$2.8 billion and US$2.39 billion in 17 and 46 FDI projects, respectively.
Foreign-invested sector posts trade surplus of US$17.15 billion
Theforeign-invested sectorin 2015 raked in US$115.1 billion in export earnings and imported goods worthUS$97.9 billion.
It resulted in a trade surplus of US$17.15 billion.
Some large foreign-invested projects were licensed in theyear including Samsung Display Viet Nam which asked for anadditional capital of US$3 billion andDuyenHai2Thermal Power Plantwith a total investment of US$2.4 billion.
RoK– largest investor in Viet Nam
The Republic of Korea was the largest investor in Viet Nam with 702 newly-registered projects and 260 capital-addedprojects, capitalizing at US$6.72 billion,accounting for 29.6% of the total.It was followed by Malaysia and Japan with US$2.47 billion and US$1.84 billion, making up 10.9% and 8.1%, respectively./.