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Inner Mongolia boosts overseas investment
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2004-05-05 14:11
The Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, North China, registered US$363.32
million in contractual overseas investment in the first quarter this year, up
438 percent year on year, statistics have shown.
According to the People's Bank of China branch in Hohhot, the regional
capital, the region used US$32.72 million of overseas investment in the first
three months, up 30 percent over the corresponding period of last year.
The region approved 29 overseas-financed enterprises in the period, including
14 firms wholly owned by overseas investors.
Overseas investors have shifted their focus from traditional industries such
as milk, meat, cashmere and manufacturing, to currently hot sectors like real
estate, power and metallurgy.
Statistics show that 59.23 percent of the region's overseas investment in the
period went to the real estate sector, while overseas investment to the
manufacturing sector dropped by 39 percent year on year.
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