In the first quarter of 2024, the whole country had 59.9 thousand newly registered enterprises and returned to operation, the number of enterprises withdrawing from the market was 73.9 thousand enterprises.
The General Statistics Office's socio -economic report for the first quarter of 2024 shows that in March, the country had 14.1 thousand newly established enterprises, up 64.3% over the previous month and down 0.7% over the same period last year. In addition, more than 3 thousand enterprises returned to operation.
Meanwhile, March recorded 4,139 enterprises registering to temporarily suspend business for a period of time; 4,980 enterprises stopped operations pending dissolution procedures; 1,412 enterprises completed dissolution procedures.
In the first quarter of 2024, the whole country had 59.9 thousand newly registered enterprises and returned to operation, up 5.1% over the same period last year. On average, nearly 20 thousand newly established enterprises returned to operation per month.
The number of enterprises withdrawing from the market was 73.9 thousand, an increase of 22.8% over the same period last year. On average, nearly 24.7 thousand enterprises withdrew from the market each month.
Comparing the number of newly registered and returning enterprises with the number of enterprises withdrawing from the market, in the first quarter of 2024, the total number of enterprises in our country decreased by 14.1 thousand enterprises, an average decrease of 4.7 thousand enterprises per month.
Regarding the import and export situation of goods, in March 2024, the total import and export turnover of goods is estimated at 65.09 billion USD, up 35.6% over the previous month and up 12% over the same period last year. In the first quarter of 2024, the total import and export turnover of goods reached 178.04 billion USD, up 15.5% over the same period last year, of which exports increased by 17%; imports increased by 13.9%.
The trade balance of goods had a trade surplus of 8.08 billion USD (in the same period last year, there was a trade surplus of 4.93 billion USD). Of which, the domestic economic sector had a trade deficit of 4.49 billion USD; the foreign-invested sector (including crude oil) had a trade surplus of 12.57 billion USD.
Regarding the import and export market of goods in the first quarter of 2024, the US is Vietnam's largest export market with an estimated turnover of 26.2 billion USD. China is Vietnam's largest import market with an estimated turnover of 29.4 billion USD.
In the tourism sector, international visitors to Vietnam in March 2024 reached nearly 1.6 million. In the first quarter, international visitors are estimated to reach more than 4.6 million.
Of which, the number of visitors still mainly comes from Asia with more than 3.5 million visitors, visitors from Europe reached more than 661 thousand visitors, visitors from America reached more than 302 thousand visitors...
On the other hand, the number of Vietnamese people leaving the country in March 2024 was 537.4 thousand people, in the whole quarter, the number of Vietnamese people leaving the country reached 1.2 million.
According to the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism), our country's tourism industry is striving to achieve the goal of welcoming about 18 million international visitors, serving 110 million domestic tourists, and total tourism revenue reaching about 840 trillion VND in 2024.
To achieve this goal, the tourism industry is in dire need of innovative, open and more convenient visa policies for foreign visitors.
Currently, Vietnam is exempting visas for citizens of 25 countries, of which 13 countries are unilaterally exempted from visas. From mid-August 2023, Vietnam decided to expand the issuance of electronic visas (e-visas) to citizens of all countries and territories and increase the temporary stay period from 30 to 90 days, with unlimited number of entries and exits; at the same time, increase the temporary stay period of citizens of 13 countries unilaterally exempted from visas to 45 days.
The e-visa policy has created much more favorable conditions than before to attract tourists to Vietnam.
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