More than 85,000 enterprises suspended operations in the first eight months of this year, an increase of 24.2 per cent over the same period in 2020 due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, local enterprises need to have measures on maintaining operation and developing a sustainable business. Phan Đức Hiếu, deputy director of the Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM), spoke to the Vietnam News Agency about this issue.