Help | Sitemap | Archive | Advanced Search |
Thursday, September 13, 2001, updated at 11:17(GMT+8) | ||||||||||||||
Business | ||||||||||||||
Overseas Investment Up 60 Percent in ShanghaiThis industrial powerhouse in east China reported a 60-percent rise in contractual overseas investment during the first eight months of this year.According to statistics released by the city's foreign investment work committee, Shanghai approved 1,665 overseas- invested projects in the January-August period, involving some US$5 billion of contractual investment, up 59.04 percent on an annual basis. Japan replaced Hong Kong as the largest investor in Shanghai, with a total contractual investment of US$1.233 billion, up 188 percent. Meanwhile, investment from Hong Kong was down by 28.23 percent to US$543 million, and that from the United States was up by 1.38 percent to US$508 million. The city's secondary industry absorbed the largest amount of overseas investment, totaling US$3.581 billion, a 69.31- percent rise over the period one year ago. Overseas-funded enterprises in Shanghai have also reported good performances over the past months, with gross sales totaling some 239.3 billion yuan (US$28.8 billion), up 36.3 percent.
In This Section
|
|
Copyright by People's Daily Online, all rights reserved | | Mirror in U.S. | Mirror in Japan | Mirror in Edu-Net | Mirror in Tech-Net | |