As a result of a strenuous effort by Sichuan to make most of foreign investment and businesses from abroad there is a total of US$13 billion of foreign investment that have been introduced and used now in Sichuan. With this are over 5,000 foreign-invested enterprises that have with their operations been licensed and over 200,000 new job opportunities created in Sichuan along with economic trading ties developed by the province with over 100 foreign countries and regions abroad. Statistics have pointed to an annual foreign related tax amount of US$ 1.2 billion that have been earned by Sichuan and a US$2.50 million worth of exports that have been developed by foreign-invested enterprises in Sichuan, a volume that takes 15% of the total export value of the Province.