Collections from imports and exports this year estimated at VND13.5 trillion ($567 million).

Annual figure equal to 127.8 per cent of estimate and up 15 per cent year-on-year.

Central city’s trade turnover almost VND5.3 trillion ($222 million) last year.

Revenue estimated at $68.5 billion in 2023, up 0.4 per cent from 2022.

The city had been assigned to collect over VND386.6 trillion ($16 billion) in State budget revenue in 2022.

Provincial budget revenue estimated at $1.4 billion this year, or 135.6 per cent of the estimate and up 40.1 per cent against 2021.

City ranks third nationwide in terms of collections.

The government has issued measures for implementing the Planning for Inland Waterway Infrastructure in the 2021-2030 Period and Vision to 2050, which identifies 17 investment projects using State budget capital and a series of projects upgrading and expanding passenger and cargo ports using enterprise capital. A breakthrough mechanism on access to foreign preferential loans by the government will also be applied for infrastructure projects that effectively connect inland waterway traffic with seaports.

The sixth plenum of the 13th Party Central Committee opened in Hanoi on October 3 and is expected to last for a week. Many key issues will be discussed and decided on, such as Vietnam’s socio-economic development plan and State budget estimates for 2023, the State finance budget plan from 2023 to 2025, and the national master plan from 2021 to 2030 and vision to 2050.

To promote the interest rate support program from the State budget for loans to businesses, cooperatives, and business households, which has now been implemented for three months, the State Bank of Vietnam has required that commercial banks review efforts and notify eligible customers.