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Despite state policies to rein in the overheated real estate sector, investment in property development in Beijing grew 18.1 percent year-on-year in the first five months of this year. According to the latest data provided by the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Statistics, the Chinese capital pumped 48.09 billion yuan (US$6.01 billion) in real estate development between January and May, or more than half of the 87.8 billion yuan (US$10.98 billion) in fixed-assets investment the city made for that period. Of the money injected in property development, 25.1 billion yuan (US$3.14 billion) went to construction of residential housing, up 33 percent. The total fixed-assets investment was 24 percent more than a year earlier, the bureau said. The total input included 21.35 billion yuan (US$2.67 billion) in capital construction, up 91.4 percent year-on-year. Such major infrastructure projects as the Beijing-Tianjin light rail project and those for the 2008 Olympics contributed significantly to the rapid growth, the bureau added. (Xinhua News Agency June 27, 2006) |
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