Hanoi (VNA) - There were 76,233 newly-registered enterprises in thefirst six months of this year, an increase of 13.6% compared to the same periodlast year.

Thisis the first time that the number of newly-established enterprises in the firstsix months has exceeded 70,000.

Datafrom the Business Registration Management Agency under the Ministry of Planningand Investment showed that 116,900 enterprises were enteringor re-entering the market in the first half of 2022.

Interms of capital, although it declined by 6.4% over the same period last year,with a value of 882.1 trillion VND (37.92 billion USD), it was still 1.2 timeshigher than the average for 2017-2021.

Thecapital city of Hanoi and the southern largest economic hub of Ho Chi Minh Citycontinued to record a significant increase in newly-established enterprises.

Accordingly,Hanoi has 14,628 newly-established enterprises, up 9.8% yearly.

HCMCity has 22,469 newly established businesses, a year-on-year increase of 11.5%.

Meanwhile,the number of enterprises returning to operation in the first six months ofthis year was 40,667, an increase of 55.6% over the same period last year and1.9 times higher than the average in 2017-2021.

Inthe opposite direction, 83,570 businesses withdrew from the market in the firstsix months of this year, a year-on-year growth of 19%.

Enterpriseswithdrawing from the market are mainly temporarily suspending their businesses,with 50,909 enterprises, accounting for 60.9%.

Enterprisestemporarily suspending business were mainly in the fields of wholesale, retail,car and motorbike repairing (18,417 enterprises, accounting for 36.2%), construction(7,206 enterprises, 14.2%) and processing and manufacturing industry (5,948enterprises, 11.7%)./.