Foreign funds were used in more than 20 fields, including energy, transportation, and communications, the energy-consumption metallurgy, agriculture, water conservation projects, technical renovations, medicine, public health, and environmental protection.

From January to November, contractual FDI reached 261.21 million US dollars. There were 21 new approved projects with direct foreign investment, among which 11 projects involved foreign direct investment of over 5 million US dollars.