Enterprises optimistic about production and business in 2022
As many as 45.4 percent of businesses in a recent survey conducted by the General Statistics Office (GSO) forecast that their production will increase in the first quarter of 2022 as compared to the fourth quarter of 2021.
Hanoi (VNA) – As many as 45.4 percent of businesses in a recentsurvey conducted by the General Statistics Office (GSO) forecast that their production will increase in the first quarter of 2022 as compared to the fourth quarter of 2021.
Meanwhile, 37.2 percent of the surveyed enterprises expected stability in theirproduction and 17.4 percent of them predicted a reduction.
Up to 41.4 percent and 41.8 percent of the respondents expectedan increase and stability in their orders in the first quarter of 2022, respectively,compared to the fourth quarter of 2021. Just 16.8 percent of the surveyed businesses forecast a drop in their orders.
New export orders of 37.2 percent of the surveyed firms werepredicted to rise in the first quarter of this year from the last three months of 2021. The new export orders werepredicted to drop in 16.7 percent of the enterprises and remain stable in 46.1percent of them.
Foreign-invested firms were the most optimistic aboutproduction and﷽ business with 83.1 percent expecting better performance or stability in thefirst quarter of 2022. The rates among State and non-State enterprises were 82 percent and 81.2percen♋t, respectively./.
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