Recovery in domestic consumption and production demand, along with strong development in tourism, have contributed positively to the growth of the trade and service sector in the first nine months of 2024, according to General Director of the General Statistics Office (GSO) Nguyen Thi Huong.

Vietnam’s total retail sales of consumer goods and services saw a year-on-year increase of 8.7% to 3.6 trillion VND (143.3 million USD) during January – July, the General Statistics Office (GSO) said.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) will promote domestic market consumption to contribute partly to enhancing socio-economic development.

Ho Chi Minh City posted 585 trillion VND (25.74 billion USD) in the Gross Regional Domestic Product (GRDP) in the first half of 2018, a growth of 7.76 percent from the same period last year, as heard

Domestic trade and services have played an important role in meeting people’s consumption demand and contributing to the economy’s growth in recent years, an official of the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) has said.