Hunan Province Witnesses Steady and Fast Investment Growth

In the first half of this year, Hunan achieved 896.225 billion yuan investment, up by 21.2%. The growth rate ranks 7th in the country and tops in six provinces of central China, moving 8 places nationally and 2 places provincially compared to last year.
 
Specifically, the private investment achieved 601.443 billion yuan, growing by 23.1%. The seven strategic emerging industries contributed 208.033 billion yuan investment to the province, increasing by 18.8%. Infrastructure construction investment and people’s livelihood investment reached 190.762 billion yuan and 58.846 billion yuan, rising by 31.6% and 45.4% respectively. Construction of facilities benefitting people's livelihood was prioritized, including indemnificatory housing, culture, education, public health, sports, civil administration and social security, safe drinking water, poverty relief and development, ecological environment protection, and safety system, which steadily enhanced the province’s ability and standard in ensuring people’s livelihood. Construction enterprises certified with grade qualification accomplished 244.759 billion yuan of total output value, a year on year increase of 17.5%. The province’s construction enterprises signed contract worth 926.773 billion yuan in total, up by 23.4%. Besides, the construction enterprises reported 339.457 million square meters of buildings under construction and 54.695 million square meters of completed building areas, growing by 13.7% and 5.2% respectively.
 
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Translator: Hao Jingru

Chinese source: hunan.gov.cn