PANO - The total newly-registered and added foreign direct investment (FDI) capital in the first nine months of this year has reached US$ 17.15 billion, concentrating on 17 fields of the Vietnamese economy and marking a year-on-year rise of 53.4 per cent, reported the Ministry of Planning and Investment recently.

Food processing. Photo: daidoanket.vn

Accordingly, the manufacturing and processing industries lured the most capital with 737 newly-registered and 346 added capital projects, worth US$ 11.36 billion in total, accounting for 66.3% of the total. It was followed by power generation and distribution industry with 5 newly-registered and three added projects, worth US$ 2.6 billion in total (15.3 per cent of the total) and real estate sector with 19 newly-registered and 7 added projects, worth US$ 1.81 billion in total.

Translated by Anh Tien