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EXPLANATION OF TERMINOLOGY, CONTENT
AND METHODOLOGY OF SOME STATISTICAL
INDICATORS ON INVESTMENT AND CONSTRUCTION

INVESTMENT

Investment in the locality is the entire amount of capital
spending (expenditure) to increase or maintain capacity and resources

for production, including: investment to generate fixed assets,
investment to increase current assets, spending on purchasing rare and
precious assets, reserves gold in the form of goods, storage of

commodities in the resident and other investment to improve people's
knowledge, enhance social welfare, improve the ecological
environment, support people’s welfare, etc.

Investment does not include investments which transfer the right

of use or ownership among individuals, households, enterprises or
organizations... without increasing fixed assets and current assets in
the locality, such as the transfer of land, houses, shops, equipments

and other used fixed assets in the locality.

Foreign direct investment in the locality is the total amount of
cash and legal objects of foreign investors that have been put in that

locality and invested in the approved projects in the province/city
directly under the central government, in the form of money,
machinery, equipments, materials, raw materials, fuels, finished
goods, semi-finished goods; the value of industrial property rights,

technical know-how, technological processes, technical services,
intellectual property rights and other legal assets.

The ratio of investment in the locality to GRDP is the percentage

between investment in the locality and GRDP in a given period.

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