In the first half of the current year, total fixed asset investments (excluding rural households) in China amounted to RMB 25.836 trillion ($3.87 trillion), up 9.0 percent year on year, as announced by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), with the year-on-year increase rate in question 0.6 percentage points lower than that recorded in the January-May period of the current year. In June, fixed asset investments (excluding rural households) in China increased by 0.45 percent month on month.
In the first half of the current year, total fixed asset investment in China's mining sector amounted to RMB 422.5 billion ($63.25 billion), down 19.7 percent year on year, while fixed asset investment in China's manufacturing sector totaled RMB 8.2261 trillion ($1.23 trillion), up 3.3 percent year on year.