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Specifically, more than 1,700 projects received investment licenses with a total registered capital of more than 15 billion USD. Other 985 projects registered additional capital of more than 9 billion USD.

Foreign investors have so far poured capital into 18 out of 21 Vietnamese economic sectors. Manufacturing and processing sector took the lead with more than 18 billion USD in investment capital. Among 106 countries and territories investing in Vietnam, Singapore ranked first with nearly 11 billion USD followed by the Republic of Korea (RoK) with around 5 billion USD and Japan nearly 4 billion USD.