VI. Major fields and projects wanting foreign investment

Industries encouraged to draw investment:

1. Deep produce processing of farming and animal husbandry and comprehensive development of agriculture and animal husbandry;

2. Infrastructure construction of water conservancy, electricity, communications, ports, and urbanization and public welfare undertakings;

3. Exploitation of rare earth products and development of bio-engineering projects, research and development of hi-tech industries planned by the regional scientific and technological department;

4. Development of tourism resources;

5. Environmental protection projects including improvement of barren mountains, barren slopes, and other wasteland, and project of turning cultivated land into forests and grasslands;

6. Exploitation, extraction, and processing of mineral resources;

7. Sophisticated chemical industry, petrochemical industry, and processing of coal;

8. New building material development and recycling of waste and old resources;

9. Asset recombination of enterprises in Inner Mongolia in the forms of merger, purchase, and shareholding.

Projects available to foreign investment:

1. High-quality production line of activated carbon;

2. Promoting base of embryo transplant of cows and mutton sheep;

3. Production of new Mongolian medicine;

4. Efficient water-retaining project of cornstarch with an annual production of 150,000 tons;

5. Production of natural carotene;

6. Ancient Zhaojun Ethnic Garden of Inner Mongolia;

7. Project of aluminum sheets with foil with an annual production of 10,000 tons;

8. Construction of Kaolin production base;

9. The third-phase water expansion project of Dongsheng City;

10. The multi-functional gymnasium construction in Baotou;

11. House refuse treatment;

12. Shareholding transfer of Baotou Jinxing Medicinal Capsules;

13. Follow-up project of rare earth separating line with a capacity of 3,000 tons;

14. The Yihua natural gas-made methyl with an annual production capacity 150,000 tons;

15. Technological renovation of cashmere spinning with an annual production capacity of 200 tons;

16. Lysine production in Huameng Jinhe with an annual capacity of 10,000 tons;

17. Billet casting project of the Baotou Iron and Steel Co.;

18. Series new products of ephedrine.