PHNOM PENH, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia's construction sector had attracted a total investment of 8.5 billion U.S. dollars in 2016, a 156-percent rise year-on-year, according to an official report released on Tuesday.
Issued by the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction, the report said that the ministry provided licenses to 2,636 construction projects last year, up 14 percent from 2,305 projects in a year earlier.
Top investors in the country's construction and real estate are China, South Korea and Japan.
The report added that 1,002 construction and home design companies are operating in the kingdom.
Huy Nara, director general of the ministry's construction department, said the construction industry has employed about 200,000 workers.
"Unskilled workers can earn between 120 and 200 U.S. dollars per month, while skilled workers get between 300 and 450 U.S. dollars, and engineers and architects make between 350 and 2,500 U.S. dollars," he said at the ministry's annual conference on Tuesday.
