Taiwan's private investment totaled NT$386 billion (US$ 12.2 billion) in the first quarter of the year, the Ministry of Economic Affairs said Friday. The amount was 37.57 percent of the private investment target of NT$1.272 trillion (US$43.1 billion) set for the whole of 2010 and bodes well for Taiwan's ability to move further away from the shadows cast by the 2008-2009 global financial crisis, the ministry said. Noteworthy among all industries was the green energy sector, which attracted investment worth NT$41.8 billion, amounting to 78 percent of the 2010 target, it added. The government was also on pace to meet its target of having Taiwanese businesses operating in China and other parts of the world invest NT$38 billion back in their home country in 2010, after such enterprises injected NT$9.5 billion into Taiwan in the first three months of the year, the ministry said. 