Metallurgical of China (SHA:601618, HKG:1618), or MCC's, newly signed contract value stood at 248 billion yuan for the four months ended April 30, according to a Friday Hong Kong bourse filing.

Of the total, the engineering construction firm's newly signed overseas contracts stood at around 14.2 billion yuan in the period.

In April alone, the firm signed three new engineering and construction contracts worth over 1 billion yuan.