There were a total of 15,100 enterprises returning to operation, up 146.8% and down 21.2% on-year, duly bringing the total number of newly-established enterprises and businesses returning to operation in January to 25,900 firms, marking an annual fall of 19.3%.

January also saw the entire country record 34,994 firms register to suspend business activities for a definite time, up 19.6% over the same period from last year.

Throughout the reviewed period, as many as 6,841 enterprises stopped operating and were waiting for dissolution procedures, a drop of 3.4%, while 2,038 firms completed dissolution procedures, up 0.6% on-year.