In the January-August period of the current year, total fixed asset investments (excluding rural households) in China amounted to RMB 36.6339 trillion ($5.49 trillion), up 8.1 percent year on year, as announced by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), with the year-on-year increase rate in question remaining stable compared to that recorded in the January-July period of the current year. In August, fixed asset investments (excluding rural households) in China increased by 0.58 percent month on month.
In the January-August period of the current year, total fixed asset investment in China's mining sector amounted to RMB 611.9 billion ($91.74 billion), down 23.5 percent year on year, while fixed asset investment in China's manufacturing sector totaled RMB 11.6523 trillion ($1.75 trillion), up 2.8 percent year on year.