Recently, the reporter learned from the Municipal Bureau of Investment Promotion that in the first quarter of this year, Yichang signed 513 new projects with an agreed investment amount of 405.044 billion yuan, each over 100 million yuan, with a great improvement in scale, investment volume and technological level.

　　Investment promotion and attraction has long been taken as the source of economic development in Yichang, and since the beginning of this year, the investment promoting departments started to give priority to the introduction of successful and quality key projects, especially the environment-friendly and profitable ones featured by new science and technology, aiming at establishing the high-end industrial chain and value chain by attracting a batch of large-scale and high-class projects of good potential and promotive power to Yichang, such as the integrated project of new energy and new materials invested by the Tongling Chemical Industrial Group. (Reporter/Tan Qiangming)