From January to April, 15 new foreign investment projects, with a total amount of 580 million dollars, were introduced, an increase of 1350.1%, including contract-introduced foreign investment of 195 million dollars, an increase of 386.5%. The following features were shown in the period:

Remarkable progress was achieved in major project. Based on municipal leaders’ instructs to mainly focus on large enterprises and projects, government departments of counties and districts had been promoting major foreign-investment projects collaboratively and achieved remarkable progress. Foreign investment filing procedures had been finished for 4 of the 5 projects signed in Hong Kong last year, with the initial investment of 579 million dollars, including the West Region Education Investment Project invested by China First Capital Group Limited, the Urban and Rural Renewable Energy Project and the Solid Waste Disposal for Green Environmental Protection Project invested by China Everbright Group, and the Composite Energy Project invested by China Power International Development Limited.

Most of the projects were in the secondary and third industries, which had become major areas of foreign investment in Deyang, covering mainly education, energy conservation, environment protection, electric power, and modern services, with contract-introduced foreign investments of 6.594 and 129.20 million dollars, or 33.8% and 66.2% of the total contract-introduced foreign investment of Deyang.

Sources of foreign investments were relatively concentrated. Investments introduced in the first half of 2017 were mainly from Hong Kong and Taiwan, with the contract-introduced foreign investment of 1.9484 million dollars, or 99% of the total contract-introduced foreign investment of Deyang.