China's State Council on Wednesday approved several projects with a combined investment of more than 200 billion yuan (about 29 billion U.S. dollars) amid efforts to spur the country's economy.

The projects included a gas pipeline linking the country's western region with the southern economic hubs of Guangzhou and Hong Kong, with an investment of 93 billion yuan.

The country's cabinet also approved the 95.5-billion-yuan nuclear power plants in the eastern province of Zhejiang and the southern province of Guangdong.

It also said another 17.4 billion yuan would go to water conservancy projects in regions of Xinjiang, Guizhou and Jiangxi and civil airports in Inner Mongolia and Anhui.