The fixed assets investment in the urban area from January to February reached 653.5 billion yuan, up 23.4 percent over the same time of last year. Of which, the investment of the state-owned and state share-holding enterprises was 294.6 billion yuan, up 17.9 percent; that in residential buildings was 178.6 billion yuan, up 24.3 percent.

Analyzed by the project affiliation, the investment in central project was 66.3 billion yuan, up by 21.7 percent; that in local project was 587.2 billion yuan, up by 23.6 percent.

Analyzed by industry, the investment in the primary industry, in the secondary industry and in the tertiary industry were 3.1, 265.6 and 384.8 billion yuan respectively, a year-on-year rise of 24.8 percent, 21 percent and 25.1 percent accordingly.

Analyzed by industry, the investment in the coal mining and dressing 4 billion yuan, a year-on-year rise of 2.3 percent; that in the production and supply of electricity and heat reached 54.3 billion yuan, up 11.7 percent; that in the oil and gas exploitation was 11.2 billion yuan, up 3.3 percent; that in the railway transport was 9.9 billion yuan, up 97.2 percent; that in non-metallic mineral mining and products industry was 11.7 billion yuan, up 36.6 percent; that in the mining, smelting and pressing of ferrous metals was 16.8 billion yuan, up 3.4 percent; that in the mining, smelting and pressing of non-ferrous metals was 6.6 billion yuan, up 56.4 percent.

Analyzed by ownership type, the investment in the domestic-funded enterprises totaled 557 billion yuan, a year-on-year rise of 23.9 percent; that in Hongkong, Macao and Taiwan and the foreign investment were 38 billion yuan and 55.6 billion yuan respectively, up 23.2 percent and 16.7 percent accordingly.

Analyzed by projects under construction, in the end of February the number of the projects under construction above 500 thousand yuan size in the urban added up 55451, a year-on-year rise of 6862; the planning investment of projects under construction totaled 10675.9 billion yuan, up 9.3 percent, of which, the number of new-started projects was 10061, an year-on-year decrease 1662, the planning investment of the new-started projects totaled 407.2 billion yuan, a year-on-year drop of 35.8 percent.

Analyzed by the fund sources, the fund sources of investment in the urban was 1100.4 billion yuan, a year-on-year rise of 17.1 percent, of which, the domestic loan rose 2.7 percent, the utilized foreign capital went up 10.7 percent, the fundraising climbed 22.9 percent.

(China Development Gateway March 19, 2007)