By midday Tuesday, some US$854 millionworth of foreign trade deals had been clenched at the Fifth China International Investment and Trade Fair, which opened on September 8 in this port city of Xiamen in east China.
Of the total, contractual exports amounted to US$755 million , up 40 percent from the same period of the previous session.
So far, a total of 1,526 deals have been inked at the investment and trade fair involving a total investment worth US$12.8 billion with US$10.6 billion of foreign funds.
The number of projects with an investment of more than US$10 million each signed at the fair totaled 272.
(People's Daily 09/12/2001)
