Jiao Yang, a Shanghai Municipal Government spokeswoman, described 2003 as a harvest year for urban construction, saying the city has completed all the key projects planned for this year at yesterday's press conference.

The projects, covering 36 programs in seven sectors of infrastructure, environment, traffic, landscaping, industry, power and social welfare system, cost investment exceeding 55.3 billion yuan (US$6.7 billion), according to Jiao.

That input, accounting for about one-quarter of the city's total fixed assets investment in 2004, sets a record, Jiao said.

She said 26 projects have started construction this year and 25 been completed, both surpassing the goal of 19 projects preset at the year's beginning.

Infrastructure projects completed this year include the first phase construction of the Yangshan Deep Water Port and the anti-flood project in the upper Huangpu River, while the traffic projects include the Lupu Bridge over the Huangpu River, the Fuxing Road Tunnel and the Dalian Road Tunnel.

The "green project", another key landscaping program, has added 2,100 hectares of green spaces, contributing to more than half of the new green land created this year.

It helps increase the city's per-capita green area to 9.16 square meters and the green coverage ratio to 35.18 percent, Jiao said.