The reporter learned from the Municipal Development and Reform Commission on September 6 that the financing channels of the city kept expanding in the first half of this year, the deposit balance and loan balance of the city increased by 11.1% and 16.2%, ranking second and fourth respectively in the province. A total of 28 PPP projects landed, ranking second in the province; and the total investment was 28.4 billion yuan, ranking fourth in the province.

Jingzhou has promoted the investment promotion with the utmost efforts, improved the investment dispatching service system and promoted the reform of the investment and financing system. Among them, the scale of investment promotion continues to expand. In the first half of this year, 258 new projects with a total investment of over 1 billion yuan were introduced, with an increase of 10.3%.Among them, there are 209 industrial projects with an increase of 6%, 35projects with a value of more than 1 billion yuan and an increase of 32.7% and 9 foreign investment projects; and the total investment of contracted projectsis 108.77 billion yuan.

At the sametime, the city has introduced 3 comprehensive projects of more than 5 billionyuan: Jianli Comprehensive Cultural Tourism, Honghu Red Culture Park and Jingzhou High-tech Zone Beautiful Taihu Gang. Investment in key industries has grown rapidly.

In the first half of the year, the industrial investment of the city has reached 29.86 billion yuan with an increase of 13.3%. Among them, the investment in the four major industries of agricultural and sideline food processing, paper making and paper products, automobile manufacturing and special equipment manufacturing increased by 29.9%, 147.5%, 68.6% and 83.7% respectively; and the investment in infrastructure reached 25.79 billion yuan with an increase of 19.5%, which was 11.1 percentage points higher than the average level of the city, ranking fourth in the province. Infrastructure investment accounted for 28.3% of the total investment, and was 1.7 percentage points higher than that of the same period last year.