According to the Da Nang Department of Planning and Investment, between January and June, the city authorities granted business registration certificates to a total of 2,166 new domestic and foreign businesses, branches and representative offices, with a total registered charter capital of over 11,170 billion VND.

These figures represent an increase of 8% in the number of projects and a decrease of 5.2% in total registered investment capital against the same period last year.

This, thereby, brings the total number of businesses, branches and representative offices now operating in the city to date to 24,405 totalling more than 121,570 billion VND.

Besides, during the 6-month period, 396 businesses were dissolved, whilst 760 had their business activities temporarily suspended.