Working Conference on Domestic Investment Attraction held

Last year, Dalian had an actual amount of domestic capital in place of more than 102.7 billion yuan, an increase of 69.7%, exceeding 100 billion yuan for the first time and ranking first in the province for two consecutive years. 50% more projects commenced within the same year, which was the best of the last few years. Yesterday, the Working Conference on Domestic Investment Attraction was held at Dalian International Finance Conference Centre. Vice Mayor Sun Guangtian took part in the conference and made a speech.

In 2010, 355 projects were signed with other provinces in various investment attraction efforts: 13.8% of them have been put into production, 40.3% are under construction and 45.9% are in negotiation, which is the best record for project implementation in history. In 2011, Dalian will put 135 billion yuanin placefrom other provinces, an increase of more than 30%; plus 15 billion yuan from outside Dalian but within Liaoning.

Sun said that the Municipal Government sets a target of 150 billion yuan for domestic investment recruitment in 2011. We must not only redouble our efforts for recruitment, but also improve the quality. All localities and departments should combine domestic investment attraction and the strategy of macro-urbanization as well as the transformation of economic development mode so as to fully improve its quality; with the key points of the government s layout, set up reasonable theme concepts, redouble recruitment efforts, invite renowned large enterprises and strategic investors, bringing major projects related to the construction of Three Centers, One Cluster ; target the top 500 in China and the top 100 in different fields, mainly bringing in a number of high-end projects with high technology, strong driving forces and low-carbon and good environmental protection; bring in new industries such as new energy, new materials and advanced equipment manufacturing, and high value-added service projects such as financial services, commerce and tourism in order to push forward Dalian s industrial structure toward high-end development; and spare no effort to attract domestic investment for key development areas in Liaoning Coastal Economic Zone, bringing in a group of leading projects with strong driving forces, high degree of correlations and good social effectiveness to foster key industrial clusters.