The fixed assets investment in the urban area from January to August was 5259.4 billion yuan, up 29.1% over the same time of last year. In which, the investment of the state-owned and state share-holding enterprises was 2466.7 billion yuan, up 18.4%; that in residential buildings was 1106.3 billion yuan, up 24.0%.

Analyzed by the project affiliation, the investment in central project was 568.2 billion yuan, up by 29.4%; that in local project was 4691.1 billion yuan, up by 29.1%.

Analyzed by industry, the investment in the primary industry, in the secondary industry and in the tertiary industry were 54.8, 2287.8 and 2916.8 billion yuan respectively, a year-on-year rise of 38.2%, 32% and 26.8% accordingly.

Analyzed by industry, the investment in the coal mining and dressing 74.4 billion yuan, a year-on-year rise of 36.3%; that in the production and supply of electricity and heat reached 413.1 billion yuan, up 15.4%; that in the oil and gas exploitation was 97.8 billion yuan, up 27.2%; that in the railway transport was 115.5 billion yuan, up 129.1%; that in non-metallic mineral mining and products industry was 120.3 billion yuan, up 46.1%; that in the mining, smelting and pressing of ferrous metals was 155.7 billion yuan, up 4.3%; that in the mining, smelting and pressing of non-ferrous metals was 74.3 billion yuan, up 42.2%.

Analyzed by ownership type, the investment in the domestic-funded enterprises totaled 4651.8 billion yuan, a year-on-year rise of 29.8%; that in Hongkong, Macao and Taiwan and the foreign investment were 243.4 billion yuan and 339.5 billion yuan respectively, up 16.5% and 24.8% accordingly.

Analyzed by projects under construction, in the end of August the number of the projects under construction above 500 thousand yuan size in the urban added up 207714, a year-on-year rise of 30863; the planning investment of projects under construction totaled 17987.2 billion yuan, up 23.5%, of which, the number of new-started projects was 131086, an year-on-year increase 17297, the planning investment of the new-started projects totaled 4451.6 billion yuan, a year-on-year rise of 11.4%.

Analyzed by the fund sources, the fund sources of investment in the urban was 6040 billion yuan, a year-on-year rise of 30.1%, of which, the domestic loan rose 29.8%, the utilized foreign capital went up 18.6%, the fundraising climbed 33.4%.

(China Development Gateway September 14, 2006)