The provincial statistics bureau recently released data showing that during the first half of this year, Shaanxi actively implemented policies to expand effective investment and cultivate new productive forces. By coordinating various special funds, the province accelerated the construction of industrial, infrastructure, technological innovation, and livelihood projects, leading to a continuously optimized structure in fixed asset investment with coordinated efforts across multiple sectors, providing strong support for stable economic development and improved living standards.
Ma Yan, head of the Fixed Asset Investment Statistics Division at the provincial statistics bureau, noted that leveraging the province's new industrialization and industrial upgrading policies, local governments have consistently increased investment in industrial projects. In the first half of the year, the province's industrial investment grew by 1.3% year-on-year, achieving stable growth. By sector, mining investment surged 34.5% year-on-year, driving a 6.2 percentage point increase in total industrial investment, playing a significant role in boosting overall industrial investment growth. Within manufacturing investment, raw materials manufacturing grew by 13.8% year-on-year, as traditional industries advanced their intelligent and green transformation. Consumer goods manufacturing investment rose 4.3% year-on-year, with steady expansion in industries such as light manufacturing and food processing. Upstream and downstream industries developed in tandem, continuously optimizing the industrial investment layout.
The systematic construction of a modern infrastructure system progressed, with sustained growth in investment across transportation, ecology, logistics, and new types of infrastructure. In the first half of the year, Shaanxi's transportation network continued to improve, with road transport investment up 2.6% year-on-year. Various ecological restoration and governance projects were steadily implemented, boosting investment in ecological protection and environmental management by 7.9% year-on-year. Postal industry investment increased by 55.8% year-on-year, accelerating the construction of urban and rural logistics support facilities. Investment in innovative new infrastructure grew by 37.4% year-on-year, speeding up the implementation of projects related to computing power and industrial internet.
Building on its strengths in aerospace and biomedical industries, Shaanxi has intensified efforts to reserve and construct high-tech industrial projects. In the first half of the year, the number of high-tech industry projects increased by 0.4% compared to the same period last year. Investment in aircraft, spacecraft, and equipment manufacturing soared 109.4% year-on-year, driving a 9.5 percentage point increase in the province's high-tech industry investment. Pharmaceutical manufacturing investment rose 9.1% year-on-year, with continuous expansion of production lines for traditional Chinese medicine and biopharmaceuticals, contributing a 0.9 percentage point increase to total high-tech industry investment.
In line with requirements for innovation-driven development, the province has continuously improved scientific research support facilities, maintaining investment growth in the scientific research services sector. In the first half of the year, investment in scientific research and technical services grew by 15.9% year-on-year. Within this, investment in technology promotion and application services increased by 33.7%, research and experimental development investment rose by 10.7%, and professional technical services investment grew by 5.7%.
Adhering to the coordination of rural revitalization and public service quality improvement, the province has consistently increased investment in livelihood-related projects. In the first half of the year, investment in agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, and fisheries grew by 5.9% year-on-year, with agriculture and forestry investments rising by 3.7% and 34.5% respectively, as high-standard farmland and land greening projects progressed in an orderly manner. Entertainment industry investment increased by 5.6% year-on-year, while public management and social organization investment rose by 1.3%.
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