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Vietnam aims to sell stakes in nearly 100 state firms by end of 2020
The Southeast Asian country has been selling stakes in state firms in recent years to improve their performance and to fill the government's coffers, but the pace has been slower than scheduled recently.
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Vietnam communist party chief Nguyen Phu Trong (C) speaks after taking oath as country's president at the National Assembly hall in Hanoi on October 23, 2018. Vietnam lawmakers on October 23, 2018 elected as president communist party chief Nguyen Phu Trong, the only candidate on the ballot, making him the most powerful man in the country where consensus leadership has traditionally kept strongman rule in check. (AFP/-)
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ietnam plans to speed up its privatisation programme by selling stakes in nearly 100 state-owned firms by the end of 2020, including Agribank, the government said late on Thursday.
The Southeast Asian country has been selling stakes in state firms in recent years to improve their performance and to fill the government's coffers, but the pace has been slower than scheduled recently.
The government now plans to sell stakes in 93 firms by the end of next year, it said in a statement. They will include up to 35% stakes in Agribank - the country's biggest bank by assets which was formally known as the Vietnam Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development - as well as in Vietnam National Coal–Mineral Industries Holding Corp, the country's largest coal miner, and in Vietnam Northern Food Corp.
Agribank, which has total assets of nearly $56 billion, said last week it targets pretax profit of 10 trillion dong ($429 million) this year, up 32.9 percent from last year.
The government said it will also sell up to 50 percent stakes in mobile telecom carrier MobiFone and as well as in Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group and Vietnam National Chemical Group.
It also plans to sell up to 100 percent of Vietnam Paper Corp. by the end of next year and two power-generating units of Vietnam Electricity Group, it said.
