In the first quarter, Henan newly approved 46 Asian investment projects, accounting for 73% of the total newly-approved foreign investment projects; with the contracted utilized foreign capital of USD445.56m, accounting for 66% of the total, and the actually utilized foreign capital of USD1.03325b, accounting for 79% of the total, of which the newly-approved Hong Kong-invested enterprises amounted to 34 ones, with the contract capital of USD377.39m and the actual capital in place USD882.84m. Investment of other areas in the province was little. The number of projects invested by Africa, Europe, Latin America, North America and the Oceania were 3, 0, 5, 7 and 2, with the contracted utilized capital of USD24.05m, USD180,000, USD73.05m, USD3.88m and USD4.27m and the actual capital in place of USD5.47m, USD74m, USD108.14m, USD20.20m and USD4.12m respectively.
