Nations with high number of visitors to Vietnam listed
The General Statistics Office released a list of nations and territories having more than 100,000 visitors travelling to Vietnam.
The neighboring countries sharing the borderline with Viet Nam – China, Cambodia and Laos – are in the list with their total travelers reaching 2.373 million, accounting for nearly one third of the total (31.3%).
Approximately 1.370 million tourists from six ASEAN member nations arrived in Viet Nam in 2013, accounting for 18.1%.
Almost countries and territories in the list are closely associated with Viet Nam in terms of investment and trade.
The US is the largest importer of Viet Nam with US$23.7 billion in 2013 and it has registered foreign direct investment (FDI) of US$10.6 billion from 1988 to now, ranking seventh.
China ranked first among trade partners of Viet Nam with its total export- import turnover hitting US$49.9 billion in 2013 and its total registered FDI that calculated from 1988 to now amounting US$7 billion, ranking 10th.
Japan has been the largest FDI provider for Viet Nam since 1988 with US$30 billion. In 2013, the country’s respective export and import to Viet Nam reached US$11.6 billion and US$13.6 billion, ranking third and second.
The RoK is the second largest trade partner of Vietnam. The country’s two-way trade with Viet Nam attained US$27.5 billion in 2013. The RoK poured US$3.752 billion in FDI in Viet Nam in 2013, claiming the first position, bringing its total amount since 1988 to US$29 billion, ranking second.
Vietnam- China’s Taiwan trade value in 2013 obtained US$ 11.5 billion. The territory has injected US$27.5 billion in FDI in Viet Nam since 1988, standing in the third place.
Viet Nam earned US$3 billion from export to Cambodia and invested US$2.6 billion in the country.