From January to April, Jiangsu saw 829 new foreign-invested projects with the agreed investment of $20.48 billion, an increase of 18.5 percent year-on-year, and the paid-in foreign investment during the period increased by 5.7 percent to $10.37 billion, according to Jiangsu Department of Commerce on May 20.

The actual use of foreign investment in manufacturing and service industries reached $4.35 billion and $5.58 billion, down 13.9 percent and up 31.3 percent, respectively.

The southern Jiangsu area received the paid-in foreign investment of $7.4 billion, accounting for 71.3 percent of the total, followed by $1.73 billion in central Jiangsu and $1.24 billion in northern Jiangsu.

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