In the first three quarters of 2013, Qingdao completed an investment in fixed assets of 361.27 billion yuan, a year-on-year rise of 21 percent, 4 percent higher than that in the second half of the year. The primary industry achieved an investment of 9.09 billion yuan, an increase of 75.8 percent, while the second industry made 168.48 billion yuan, an increase of 26.5 percent, of which the industrial investment came to 165.07 billion yuan, an increase of 14.7 percent. The tertiary industry stood at 183.7 billion yuan, an increase of 14.7 percent.

The equipment manufacturing industry realized an investment of 75.56 billion yuan, an increase of 32 percent; the strategic emerging industry reached 48.88 billion yuan, an increase of 28.5 percent; the high-tech industry completed 44.77 billion yuan, an increase of 29.8 percent; and the modern service industry made it to 120.02 billion yuan, an increase of 17.3 percent. In the first quarters, the investment in real estate development was 78.38 billion yuan, an increase of 14.4 percent. Housing construction area was 66.949 million square meters, an increase of 7.4 percent; the sales area of commercial housing reached 7.226 million square meters, an increase of 19.1 percent; and its sales volume was 60.21 billion yuan, an increase of 22 percent.