Xiamen, a coastal city in east China, approved 157 overseas-funded projects with a contractual foreign investment of 568.15 million US dollars in the first half of this year, up 9.8 percent and 29.8 percent, respectively, from a year earlier.
This reversed the decline trend of overseas investment the special economic zone had sustained in recent years, local officials said.
Statistics show industrial projects were approved in the half- year period, involving 532 million US dollars and covering such industries as textiles, chemicals, medicine, machinery, electronics and communications.
Xiamen, a coastal city in east China, approved 157 overseas-funded projects with a contractual foreign investment of 568.15 million US dollars in the first half of this year, up 9.8 percent and 29.8 percent, respectively, from a year earlier.