In the first two months of the year, Huai'an City reported a 9.7% year-on-year increase in fixed-asset investment, though the growth rate moderated by 5.9 percentage points compared to the same period last year. Project investment reached RMB 17.795 billion, up 22.9%, while industrial investment surged 48.9%, rebounding by 15.9 percentage points year-on-year. Construction and installation investment rose by 8.5%. During the same period, the city signed agreements for 112 new projects, each valued at over RMB 100 million, including 103 industrial projects—a 17% increase year-on-year. Notably, 10 of the projects are each valued at over RMB 3 billion, up by seven from a year earlier. Of the newly signed industrial projects above RMB 100 million, 72 are in the city's five leading industries targeting an annual output of RMB 100 billion each, 44 belong to the "7+3" industrial clusters, and nine are in the sector of "new three" products—new energy vehicles, lithium batteries, and solar cells.

Meanwhile, the city's 403 major municipal-level industrial projects completed RMB 30.638 billion in investment, achieving 19.5% of the annual target, 2.8 percentage points ahead of schedule. In the manufacturing sector, 333 projects secured a total investment of RMB 28.024 billion (19.1% of the annual target); in the producer service sector, 22 projects secured a total investment of RMB 1.568 billion (23.3% of the annual target); in the  agricultural industrialization sector, 8 projects secured a total investment of RMB 507 million (16.5% of the annual target); in the  sci-tech innovation sector, 40 projects under RMB 100 million secured a total investment of RMB 539 million (41.7% of the annual target).