The situation of the whole province's use of foreign investment in the first half of the year. From January to June this year, 4,333 new foreign direct investment projects were signed in the whole province, and the contracted foreign investment amounted to 14.182 billion US dollars, increasing by 6.9% and 23.6% respectively; the actually utilized foreign investment was 8.106 billion US dollars, ranking the second nationwide, increasing by 18.7%; by the end of June 2007, the industrial and commercial registration of foreign-invested enterprises in the whole province reached 64,341, which was the highest in history. The main features of the whole province's use of foreign investment in the first half of the year: the actually utilized foreign investment showed a steady growth tendency, and the amount of actually utilized foreign investment in May and June consecutively reached the highest level in the recent four years, in which the actually introduced investment in June exceeded 2 billion US dollars, reaching 2.184 billion US dollars, increasing by 23.3% year on year.