Taicang has attracted 13.22 billion yuan ($2.16 billion) in investments and 587 projects in the first three quarters of the year.

The newly-added registered capital is 5.85 billion yuan, among which Taicang Port accounts for 2.64 billion yuan, or 45 percent of Taicang’s total newly-added registered capital. With the improvement in construction of infrastructure in the science and education new town, its newly-added registered capital totals 409 million yuan, an increase of 108.5 percent from a year earlier.

Taicang’s tertiary industry (service industry) has introduced 348 projects with a registered capital of 3.76 billion yuan.

By Feng Hui