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Tue, 10/14/2008 - 14:27
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HCM City: Industrial production up

HCMC (VNA)- Industrial production in Ho Chi Minh City increased some 12.8 percent year on year to almost 122 trillion VND in the first nine months of 2008.

This outcome is mainly due to the successful foreign economic sector which
registered a growth rate of 16.7 percent while the domestic economic sector
grew 9.8 percent.

Value added revenues in industrial production exceeded 36 trillion VND,
representing an increase of 10.3 percent.

The four major industries namely mechanical engineering,
electronics-information technology, chemistry, rubber-plastics and food
processing, attained a total revenue of almost 70 trillion VND or an average
growth rate of 13.2 percent. Among them, the electronics-information
technology took a lead at 38.4 percent.--Enditem

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