The 18th China Harbin International Fair for Trade and Economic Cooperation (Harbin Fair) has been a great success, said a senior official of the Heilongjiang provincial government.

Statistics show that domestic contracts worth 91.13 billion yuan were signed during the five-day event that began June 15, while the value of foreign contracts stood at $10.23 billion, an increase of 15.9 percent compared with the previous session.

Heilongjiang Province topped the Chinese delegations in terms of trade volume and investment projects secured during the event. Figures show that the province secured 45 foreign-invested projects, each with an investment value exceeding $10 million, with a total value of $1.94 billion. It also won 65 foreign trade contracts, each worth more than $10 million and with a total value of $3.84 billion. Further, 123 Chinese-invested projects with an investment value exceeding 100 million yuan each and a total value of 57.5 billion yuan were also secured.

The biggest foreign-invested project with an investment value of $330 million and an expected annual output of 1-million-ton of paper pulp, as well as the biggest foreign trade contract worth $360 million, were both secured by the province.