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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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