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| The VinFast stage at the Paris Motor Show 2018. — Photo Vingroup |
Viet Nam News
HÀ NỘI — Vingroup has injected more than VNĐ13.6 trillion (US$581.32 million) into its VinFast automobile project in the first nine months of this year, marking an increase of over VNĐ12.9 trillion compared with the beginning of last year.
This information was revealed in the group’s third-quarter financial report.
VinFast, the country’s first automobile brand, has an estimated total investment of $4.2 billion, partly from internal resources and the remainder from its affiliates and outside sources.
According to Lương Đức Toàn, an official from the Ministry of Industry and Trade’s Department of Industry, a number of businesses in South Korea’s automobile support industry had expressed an interest in VinFast. Some of these companies, who also supplied South Korean car brands such as Hyundai and Kia, planned to come to Việt Nam to manufacture auto parts and components for VinFast.
Speaking at a seminar on policies, barriers and solutions to develop the automobile industry in Hà Nội this week, Toàn said South Korean firms saw it as potential customer and would seek to connect and participate into this automaker’s supply chain. Toàn suggested setting up centres for supporting industry development.
In June this year, VinFast successfully organised a workshop with 300 global parts suppliers in Frankfurt, Germany.
The company targets large-scale production with a capacity of 250,000 cars in the first phase in the northern city of Hải Phòng and 500,000 cars in the next phase, becoming the top car manufacturer in the Southeast Asia. — VNS
