In the January-June period of this year, China's total fixed asset investment (excluding rural households) amounted to RMB 18.1318 trillion ($2.9 trillion), up 20.1 percent year on year, with the year-on-year growth rate in question down 0.3 percentage points compared to the increase rate recorded in the January-June period of the current year, according to China's National Bureau of Statistics.
In June alone, China's total fixed asset investment (excluding rural households) was up 1.51 percent month on month.
Meanwhile, in the first six months of the current year fixed asset investment in China's industrial sector totaled RMB 7.6572 trillion ($1.2 trillion), up 16.2 percent year on year. In particular, fixed asset investment in China's mining sector in the given period was RMB 545.4 billion ($88 billion), up 8.8 percent year on year, while fixed asset investment in China's manufacturing sector totaled RMB 6.3257 trillion ($1.0259 trillion), up 17.1 percent year on year.