This year, 917 municipal key projects in Xi'an – capital of Northwest China's Shaanxi province – have attracted total investment of 2.56 trillion yuan ($353.26 billion) and an annual planned investment of 501.2 billion yuan.

As of the end of September, 594 projects under construction had completed an investment of 468.08 billion yuan, an increase of 42.529 billion yuan over the same period last year, reaching 93.38 percent of the city's annual plan.

An artist's rendering of the Xi'an Aimei Art Square. [Photo/Xi'an Daily]

The city's 404 industrial projects completed an investment of 214.19 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 3.76 percent. Of that, 225 advanced manufacturing and R&D platform projects completed investment of 108.21 billion yuan, up 12.9 percent year-on-year and reaching 93.62 percent of the annual plan.

With the continuous advancement of the two three-year plans for the basic education and health care sectors, the people's livelihood projects have achieved increase in the investment progress and the number of completed projects.

By the end of September, 126 livelihood security projects in the city had completed an investment of 168.65 billion yuan, reaching 95.72 percent of the annual plan.

Since the start of the year, the city's project approvals are said to have been optimized.

Moving forwards, Xi'an will promote its construction and investment of key projects and complete procedures in advance for new projects that will start construction in the first half of next year, to ensure that they can start construction on schedule.