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Sixth plenum of 13th Party Central Committee opens
VGP - The 6th meeting of the 13th Central Committee of the Communist Party of Viet Nam commenced in Ha Noi on October 3.
Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong addresses at the openining ceremony of the sixth plenum of the 13th Central Committee, Ha Noi, October 3, 2022 - Photo: VGP/Nhat Bac
During the week-long meeting, members of the Committee are expected to deliberate socio-economic performance in 2022, draft socio-economic development plan for 2023, and financial-budget plan for 2023-2025.
They will discuss orientations for national master plan for 2021-2030 period with a vision to 2050, acceleration of modernization and industrialization process through 2030 with a vision to 2045, and building of socialist-oriented law-governed state.
The committee will also review 15-year implementation of a resolution on continued innovation of the Party leadership over the political system, which was adopted at the 5th plenum of the 10th-tenure Party Central Committee.
GDP growth in January-September hits 12-year high
Regarding socio-economic performance, Viet Nam's GDP grew by 8.83 percent in the first nine months this year, the highest rate over the same period since 20211, the General Statistics Office reported Thursday.
Particularly, the economy expanded 13.76 percent in the third quarter compared to 7.72 percent in the second quarter and 5.05 percent in the first quarter.
During January-September period, the nation earned US$282.52 billion from exporting, a year-on-year increase of 17.3 percent. Meanwhile, import value rose by 13 percent to US$276 billion. Viet Nam's trade surplus was estimated to reach US$6.52 billion.
Over the reviewed period, as many as 112,791 firms were established, a year-on-year increase of 31.9 percent. In addition, 50,509 firms resumed operations, up 56.1 percent, raising the number of newly-established and re-operated enterprises to 163,300, up 38 percent.
In the third quarter alone, the new firms doubled the number recorded in the same period last year with 36,558 ones.
As of September 20, the Southeast Asian nation raked in nearly US$18.7 billion in foreign direct investment (FDI), down 15.3 percent year-on-year./.
Disbursed volume of foreign investment capital totaled US$15.4 billion, up 16.2 percent on year.
Viet Nam welcomed about 1.87 million international arrivals in the first nine months of this year, 16.4 times higher than the same period last year./.