The fixed assets investment in the urban area from January to October was 7,007.1 billion yuan, up 26.8% over the same time of last year. In which, the investment of the state-owned and state share-holding enterprises was 3,327.2 billion yuan, up 17.7%; that in residential buildings was 1,461.1 billion yuan, up 24.1%.

Analyzed by the project affiliation, the investment in central project was 775.7 billion yuan, up by 29.6%; that in local project was 6,231.3 billion yuan, up by 26.5%.

Analyzed by industry, the investment in the primary industry, in the secondary industry and in the tertiary industry were 76.5, 3,013.8 and 3,916.8 billion yuan respectively, a year-on-year rise of 34.9%, 27.6% and 26.0% accordingly.

Analyzed by industry, the investment in the coal mining and dressing 101.2 billion yuan, a year-on-year rise of 31.8%; that in the production and supply of electricity and heat reached 549.8 billion yuan, up 15.3%; that in the oil and gas exploitation was 128.2 billion yuan, up 22.9%; that in the railway transport was 147.4 billion yuan, up 104.2%; that in non-metallic mineral mining and products industry was 156.6 billion yuan, up 38.5%; that in the mining, smelting and pressing of ferrous metals was 201.6 billion yuan, up 3.2%; that in the mining, smelting and pressing of non-ferrous metals was 96.6 billion yuan, up 39.4%.

Analyzed by ownership type, the investment in the domestic-funded enterprises totaled 6208.7 billion yuan, a year-on-year rise of 27.6%; that in Hongkong, Macao and Taiwan and the foreign investment were 322.1 billion yuan and 441 billion yuan respectively, up 14.3% and 20.2% accordingly.

Analyzed by projects under construction, in the end of October the number of the projects under construction above 500 thousand yuan size in the urban added up 248,869, a year-on-year rise of 33,251; the planning investment of projects under construction totaled 19,439.7 billion yuan, up 22.6%, of which, the number of new-started projects was 168,568, an year-on-year increase 21,344, the planning investment of the new-started projects totaled 5,275.1 billion yuan, a year-on-year rise of 4.4%.

Analyzed by the fund sources, the fund sources of investment in the urban was 7,769.1 billion yuan, a year-on-year rise of 28.8%, of which, the domestic loan rose 27.7%, the utilized foreign capital went up 12.9%, the fundraising climbed 30.8%.

(China Development Gateway November 16, 2006)