Hai Duong is forecast to achieve economic growth of over 10% in 2024

On the morning of June 28, the Hai Duong Provincial Statistics Office held a press conference to announce socio-economic statistics for the first 6 months of 2024.

Accordingly, in the first 6 months of this year, Hai Duong's economic growth is estimated at 10%, ranking 7th out of 63 provinces and cities nationwide and 3rd in the Red River Delta.

The highlight of Hai Duong's growth picture in the first 6 months of the year is that all sectors recorded growth. Of which, the industrial and construction sector recorded the highest growth, estimated at 13.71% (contributing 7.38 percentage points to the overall growth). The industrial sector alone increased by 14.3%, continuing to be the spearhead of the economy. The reason is that all manufacturing sectors grew quite evenly, with 34/36 industrial sectors increasing.

The agriculture, forestry and fishery sector is estimated to increase by 3.52% (contributing 0.41 points), due to stable growth in livestock and aquaculture; winter-spring rice productivity both increased compared to the same period.

The service sector is estimated to increase by 6.9% (contributing 1.79 percentage points), mainly due to stable growth in residential consumption; transportation and production support services increasing quite well; and positive impacts from the increase in basic salary of civil servants and public employees in mid-2023 in the State management, health and education sectors.

Director of the General Statistics Office Pham Ba Dung said that the unit had forecasted that the growth rate in the three regions in the last 6 months of the year would be stable, even better than the first 6 months. In the context of the current domestic and international situation, the province's economic growth for the whole year is forecast to reach over 10%.