The publication noted that over 9,300 individual houses on modern standard projects were commissions in rural areas, which helped to increase construction works’ volume by 18.7%.

Foreign investments and loans made up US$2.4 billion or 21.1% of total used investments in nine months of 2015. The volume of foreign investments and loans rose by 11%. The foreign direct investments made up US$1.8 billion, or rose by 7.4% year-on-year.

Over US$514 million resources of the Fund for Reconstruction and Development of Uzbekistan were utilized within implementation of large investment projects in strategic sectors of economy.

Own resources of businesses (30.5%) accounted the largest share in used investments, the publication said. It noted that the growth of such investments made up 20.7% year-on-year.

In the first nine months, 3,440 new production capacities were launched and 76 large investment projects with total cost of US$888 million were completed.