It was learned from the Municipal Key Projects Office that 22.667 billion yuan investment for the municipal key projects has been completed in the first half of this year, with a completion rate of 42.2 %, up 1.3 % year on year. Compared with last year, it had a net increase of 3.577 billion yuan. In addition, 14.94 billion yuan for the provincial key projects investment has been completed, 13.7% higher than last month and with a net increase of 1.26 billion yuan compared with last year.
　　It is worth mentioning that among the municipal key projects, advanced manufacturing industry has the fastest investment progress with investment of 10.798 billion yuan and a completion rate of 60.4%, accounting for 47.6% of the total key projects investment.
　　Statistics shows that from January to June, the city started a marked improvement in key projects. The operating rate of the 100 municipal key projects is 82%, 6.17% higher than the same period of last year. The projects in Xiling, Xiaoting, Zhijiang, Changyang have all started and 80% of projects in Yidu, Yuan’an, Yiling and Dangyang have started. Besides, the operating rate of the provincial key projects is 91.2%, 12.41% higher than the same period of last year. All projects are to start in September. (Reporter: Pei Shujing, correspondent: Liu Hancheng)