In the January-April period of the current year, total fixed asset investments (excluding rural households) in China amounted to RMB 13.2592 trillion ($2.03 trillion), up 10.5 percent year on year, as announced by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), with the year-on-year increase rate in question 0.2 percentage points lower than that recorded in the January-March period of the current year. In April, fixed asset investments (excluding rural households) in China increased by 0.72 percent month on month.
In the January-April period of the current year, total fixed asset investment in China's mining sector amounted to RMB 202.5 billion ($31.06 billion), down 15.3 percent year on year, while fixed asset investment in China's manufacturing sector totaled RMB 4.3279 trillion ($0.66 trillion), up six percent year on year.