The fixed assets investment in the urban area from January to April reached 2259.4 billion yuan, up 25.5 percent over the same time of last year. Of which, the investment of the state-owned and state share-holding enterprises was 985.7 billion yuan, up 16.8 percent; that in residential buildings was 526.5 billion yuan, up 27.4 percent.

Analyzed by the project affiliation, the investment in central project was 233.4 billion yuan, up by 22.5 percent; that in local project was 2026 billion yuan, up by 25.8 percent.

Analyzed by industry, the investment in the primary industry, in the secondary industry and in the tertiary industry were 18.7, 994 and 1246.8 billion yuan respectively, a year-on-year rise of 29.2 percent, 27.4 percent and 24 percent accordingly.

Analyzed by industry, the investment in the coal mining and dressing was 23.1 billion yuan, a year-on-year rise of 14.7 percent; that in the production and supply of electricity and heat reached 171 billion yuan, up 11.9 percent; that in the oil and gas exploitation was 39.1 billion yuan, up 25.6 percent; that in the railway transport was 42 billion yuan, up 20.7 percent; that in non-metallic mineral mining and products industry was 54.7 billion yuan, up 48.3 percent; that in the mining, smelting and pressing of ferrous metals was 62.4 billion yuan, up 4.9 percent; that in the mining, smelting and pressing of non-ferrous metals was 31.3 billion yuan, up 47.2 percent.

Analyzed by ownership type, the investment in the domestic-funded enterprises totaled 1970.7 billion yuan, a year-on-year rise of 25.5 percent; that in Hongkong, Macao and Taiwan and the foreign investment were 123.6 billion yuan and 155.1 billion yuan respectively, up 31.9 percent and 20.2 percent accordingly.

Analyzed by projects under construction, in the end of April the number of the projects under construction above 500 thousand yuan size in the urban added up 122667, a year-on-year rise of 12805; the planning investment of projects under construction totaled 16405.1 billion yuan, up 18 percent, of which, the number of new-started projects was 51683, an year-on-year increase 2121, the planning investment of the new-started projects totaled 2033.9 billion yuan, a year-on-year drop of 2.2 percent.

Analyzed by the fund sources, the fund sources of investment in the urban was 3017 billion yuan, a year-on-year rise of 22 percent, of which, the domestic loan rose 13.4 percent, the utilized foreign capital went up 15.5 percent, the fundraising climbed 26.4 percent.

(China Development Gateway May 17, 2007)