[" The book has a size of 624 pages, compiled & printed in Vietnamese & English according to the actual border line of Hanoi through out periods. It consisits of 2 main parts: The first part titled Socio-economic overview of Hanoi. After a general presentation of Hanoi's natural characteristics & administrative arrangement at present, this part focuses on describing Hanoi's socio-economic movements from the year of 1945 up to present. The second part titled Hanoi socio-economic statistical data, 1945 - 2008. This part is the history of Hanoi through figures. Besides general information on climate, area, population & employment; it focuses on establishing a time series of data detailed by the economic sector, type & distric / town provides important information like: economic growth rate, development indicators of industry, construction, trade, service, agriculture, education, health & people's living standards, and other socio-economic indicators with a view to giving a full picture of Hanoi's key socio-economic sectors & area. This data is divided into three stages: ( 1 ) 1945 - 1975; ( 2 ) 1976 - 1985 ); ( 3 ) 1986 - 2008. This is a valuable socio-economic documentation of great historical value, drafting the Hanoi socio-economy period 1945 - 2008 by statistics ". (From theIntroduction of the Edition)]