Industrial production continues recovery

A street vendor walks past a clothes store in Hanoi. Steady growth: Several essential industrial products showed an increase in IIP during the first five months of this year. - AFP

HANOI: The Index of Industrial Production (IIP) in May continued to recover, but enterprises are still facing difficulties due to the impact of increasing input production costs, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

Do Thi Ngoc, head of GSO’s Statistics Department, said national industrial production changed more positively with an IIP growth of 2.2% in May over the previous month and 0.1% over the same period last year.