From January to August 2013, the industrial investment of jiangsu province completed 1139.44 billion yuan, up 17.7% year on year, and the growth rate was down 3.2 percentage points from the same period in 2012, and 0.5 percentage point from January to July. Since 2013, industrial investment growth has fallen for seven consecutive months, compared with the same period in 2012, indicating greater pressure on industrial investment growth. Investment in the textile industry was 91.26 billion yuan, up 19.8% year on year, up 3.4 percentage points from the same period in 2012.

In the completion of industrial investment, the private individual economy completed investment of 6110.2 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 30.7 percent, up 6 percentage points from the same period in 2012, accounting for 53.6 percent of industrial investment.