What are the characteristics of infrastructure investment?

Features: It has the so-called "multiplier effect", that is, it can bring several times the total social demand and national income of investment. Whether the infrastructure of a country or region is perfect or not is an important basis for its long-term sustained and stable economic development.

Infrastructure investment can provide consumers with the basic consumption services they need, and can provide the society with infrastructure investment such as services to improve the unfavorable external environment.

Extended data:

At present, in response to the global financial crisis and the huge risk of economic downturn caused by many domestic factors, the China municipal government has launched a "4 trillion" investment economic stimulus plan, which is expected to boost economic growth by about 1 percentage point every year;

Nearly half of the funds will be invested in transportation infrastructure and urban and rural power grid construction, which will not only help China get rid of the negative impact of the global financial crisis, but also expand domestic demand and stimulate China's economic development and consumption growth.

According to the plan of the central government, all provincial and municipal governments in China focus on infrastructure projects to promote economic growth through investment. In 2008, the total social investment will exceed 16 trillion yuan.

Reference source: Baidu Encyclopedia-Infrastructure Investment