Hanoi (VNA)𒀰 – January witnessed a record number of businesses resuming operations, with nearly 22,800 enterprises returning to the market, according to the General Statistics Office.
This figure surpassed the previous peak of about 19,100 businesses recorded in January 2022.
However, the number of newly established businesses in January declined sharply compared to the same period in 2024, with nearly 10,700 new enterprises registered, marking a 30.3% decrease.
The total registered capital of newly established businesses in the month reached nearly 94.1 trillion VND (3.7 billion USD), down 39.3% year-on-year.
Meanwhile, the number of registered workers also dropped by 22.3% to about 81,500.
In total, over 33,400 businesses either entered or re-entered the market last month.
In the month, more than 52,800 enterprises registered to suspend business for a definite time, more than 12.6 times higher than that of the previous month and an increase of 20.2% over the same period in 2024. Nearly 3,500 enterprises stopped operating with pending dissolution procedures while 2,021 enterprises completed dissolution procedures.
Notably, a large portion of the temporarily suspended businesses were relatively new, with 20,893 businesses (39.6%) having operated for less than five years. Additionally, 47,617 businesses (90.2%) were small-scale enterprises with registered capital of less than 10 billion VND./.
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