China's moves to boost private investment - NDRC
Xinhua reported that Chinese authority has intensified efforts to encourage private sectors to participate in infrastructure investment in seek of healthy economic growth. By the end of September, at local level, some 1,222 infrastructure projects worth at least CNY 2.5 trillion have been promoted among private companies, according to the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), China's economic planning agency. Private companies have shown cooperation intention in 150 projects worth at least CNY 250 billion, the NDRC said in a statement on its website.
At the end of September, private companies inked eight airports construction agreements with investment totaling nearly CNY 50 billion. Infrastructure projects comprise of energy, transportation, highway, garbage disposal facilities and reservoirs.
Meanwhile, the country's private investment, which accounts for more than 60 percent of the total fixed-asset investment, rose 8.8 percent YoY in the first seven months of the year, and 8.4 percent in the first half of the year.
Source : Xinhua