The completed investment in fixed assets of the country in 2005 was 8.8604 trillion yuan, up 25.7 percent over the previous year. Of the total investment, that in urban areas was 7.5096 trillion yuan, up 27.2 percent; and that in rural areas reached 1.3508 trillion yuan, up 18 percent.

Of the investment in urban areas, the investment by state-owned and state-holding enterprises was 4.0047 trillion yuan, gaining 17.5 percent over the previous year. The investment in the primary industry was 82.3 billion yuan, up 27.5 percent; that in the secondary industry was 3.1598 trillion yuan, up 38.4 percent; and that in the tertiary industry was 4.2675 trillion yuan, up 20 percent. In terms of different sectors, the investment in coal mining and washing rose 65.6 percent over the previous year; in the production and distribution of electric power and heat, up 33.7 percent; in the extraction of petroleum and natural gas, up 29.7 percent; in railway transportation, up 45.7 percent; in the manufacturing of transport equipment, up 51.1 percent; in textiles, up 38 percent; in education, up 8.4 percent, and in public health, up 28.9 percent.

In 2005, the investment in real estate development was 1.5759 trillion yuan, rose 19.8 percent. The completed floor space of commercial housing reached 487.93 million square meters, up 14.9 percent. Total sales of commercial housing totaled 1.808 trillion yuan. Of this total, sales of completed housing accounted for 35.5 percent, and the forward delivery housing accounted for 64.5 percent.

In 2005, investment in key projects was implemented smoothly. A total of 14 power generators were currently in operation in the Three Gorges Project, having generated 94 billion kwh of electricity. The West-East Electricity Transmission Project from northern, middle and southern channels had built a power transmission capacity of over 32.5 million kw. The completion of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway terminated the status of zero-railway transport in Tibet. A total of 3.8 billion yuan worth of investment was completed for the first phase of eastern and middle routes of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project. The total completed investment in key projects in harnessing of the Huaihe River was 25 billion yuan.