Total Retail Sales of Goods in First Half of 2011 Rise by Nearly 25 Percent

Services shows the highest growth rate, accounting for 26.6 percent. Next, Hotel and Restaurants rises by 25.6 percent, Travel by 25.4 percent, and Commerce by 24.5 percent over the same period.

Particularly, non-state economic sector now takes up the largest proportion - VND28.77 trillion and attains the highest growth rate - 25.3 percent, followed by state-owned sector - 21.5 percent and foreign-invested sector - 20.6 percent.

Reported by Hoang Yen, Translated by Duy Minh