The objective of this paper is to analyze real status of imbalance in foreign direct investment (FDI) in Vietnam is based on five criteria: the structure of FDI in the type, by location, in the field of investment, investment partners and the ratio of realized FDI to registered FDI. On this basis, the authors propose the solution to tackle the problem inadequate, to overcome the imbalance in FDI activity, towards the building of a new strategy to attract FDI in the direction of sustainable development.