HANOI, June 28 (Xinhua) -- As many as 31,119 enterprises are estimated to halt their operation in the first half of 2016 in Vietnam, up 15 percent year-on-year, said the General Statistics Office (GSO) on Tuesday.
Among the figure, a total of 12,203 enterprises have registered to suspend operation for a certain period, up 37.1 percent year-on-year while other 18,916 enterprises stop operation, up 4.2 percent year-on-year.
The number of those that have finished dissolving procedures hits 5,507, up 17 percent year-on-year.
Meanwhile, from January to June, the number of those resuming operation is 14,902, up 75.2 percent year-on-year, posting the highest rise over the past few years, assessed GSO.
In the first half of 2015, the figure was up 2.2 percent compared to that of the same period in 2014.
At the same time, in six-month period, as many as 54,501 enterprises have been established, with total registered capital of 427.8 trillion Vietnamese dong (19.18 billion U.S. dollars), up 20 percent in volume and 51.5 percent in value year-on-year.
Average registered capital for one enterprise in Vietnam stood at 7.8 billion Vietnamese dong (350,000 U.S. dollars), said the GSO.
