East China's coastal province of Shandong used 33.8 billion U.S. dollars of foreign direct investment in the 2001-2005 period, governmental statistics said.

The figure jumped 160 percent from that of the previous five-year period between 1996 and 2000, according to the statistics bureau of the province.

The foreign trade volume of the province hit 76.89 billion U.S. dollars in 2005, of which 46.25 billion U.S. dollars were exports.

The province's foreign trade witnessed an average annual growth of 24.4 percent in the past five years, the statistics showed.

Source: Xinhua