Beijing Review

Tunneling Victory

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Workers celebrate the completion of the Altun Mountains tunnel on the Golmud-korla Railway, connecting Golmud in Qinghai Province and Korla in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in northwest China, on November 19. The completion came after three and a half years of constructi­on. capital of 147.2 billion yuan ($21.02 billion), will invest in new material, new-generation informatio­n technology and electronic equipment.

It has 20 stockholde­rs, with the Ministry of Finance being the biggest, holding 15.29 percent of the stakes.

In October, the second national fund for the integrated circuit sector was registered. It has a subscribed capital contributi­on of 204.2 billion yuan ($29.1 billion).

The government has released a slew of measures to quicken the upgrading of the manufactur­ing industry for high-quality growth.

A guideline to promote integrated developmen­t of the manufactur­ing industry and modern service industry and a four-year action plan to strengthen manufactur­ing design capabiliti­es have been released. sector, according to a report issued by the People’s Bank of China (PBC) on November 19.

The market maintained steady expansion with product and service innovation­s springing up. Green bonds worth over 280 billion yuan ($40 billion) were issued, while outstandin­g green loans from banking institutio­ns nationwide reached 8.23 trillion yuan ($1.17 trillion), up 16 percent year on year.

New product and service models such as green funds, green insurance and green trust emerged, widening the financing channels for related projects and lowering their financing costs and risks.

The fast developmen­t of the sector has promoted high-quality developmen­t of the economy, replacing old growth drivers with new ones. It also contribute­s to pollution prevention and better energy utilizatio­n.

The PBC said it will strengthen theoretica­l research, formulate a system of standards, optimize the institutio­nal environmen­t and encourage product and service

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