(1) Make the national key construction projects have reliable and stable sources of funds;

(2) Make the government indirectly control investment management, rely on the National Development Bank and the National Development and Investment Corporation for investment management, and manage state investment by economic means;

(3) through the operation and management of the fund, realize the preservation and appreciation of capital construction funds;

(4) Control and adjust the total amount and structure of capital construction investment from the source of funds, and gradually establish an investment restraint and risk responsibility mechanism in accordance with the principles of socialist market economy, so as to improve investment efficiency and promote the sustained, rapid and healthy development of the national economy.

The use of capital construction funds can be divided into operating and non-operating.

(1) The operating funds are mainly used for the construction of major energy, transportation and raw material industrial bases related to the overall situation of the national economy, trans-regional and national transportation projects, key post and telecommunications facilities, key machinery, electronics and textile industrial projects, major agricultural bases and key shelter forest projects, key emerging industrial projects, and support for the construction of economically underdeveloped areas.

(2) Non-operating funds are mainly used for cultural, educational, health, scientific research and other projects directly organized by the central competent department and for the regulation of major rivers.