In 2021, Huai'an fixed asset investment above designated scale grew by 5.2% year-on-year. Specifically, industrial investment and real estate development investment rose 12.8% and 10.1%, separately; private investment increased 6.4% year-on-year, accounting for 81.2% of all investments. When it comes to the city's investment in manufacturing, it saw a year-on-year increase of 26.8%, 21.6 percentage points faster than the total. Investment maintained rapid growth in electrical machinery and equipment manufacturing, computer communications and other electronic equipment manufacturing as well as instrumentation manufacturing, up 76.1%, 31.8%, 127.5%, respectively.
The city's 220 major industrial projects have achieved an investment of 87.889 billion yuan, exceeding the annual plan by 8.9 percentage points. There are 656 new projects with the investment over 100 million yuan, an increase of 134 over the previous year. Among them, there are 9 industrial projects over 5 billion yuan. Both Zenith Steel invested over 20 billion yuan and Taihua New Materials with 12 billion yuan have been launched and implemented.
