Research objectives: Systematize some theoretical issues on FDI, the major economic areas in the North of Vietnam; assess the practical situation of FDI in the major economic areas in the North of Vietnam last time, show the problems that need to solve; clarify some theoretical issues, practices of the foreign direct investment of the major economic areas in the North of Vietnam; proposes main requirements and solutions to attract the foreign direct investment of the major economic areas in the North of Vietnam in the future.