In the January-July period of the current year, total fixed asset investments (excluding rural households) in China amounted to RMB 25.9493 trillion ($4.2 trillion), up 17 percent year on year, as announced by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on August 13, with the year-on-year increase rate in question down 0.3 percentage points compared to that recorded in the January-June period this year.
In January-July this year, total fixed asset investment in China's mining sector amounted to RMB 712.9 billion ($115.36 billion), up 3.8 percent year on year, while fixed asset investment in China's manufacturing sector totaled RMB 8.86 trillion ($1.434 trillion), up 14.6 percent year on year, with these respective year-on-year increase rates down 0.7 percentage points and 0.2 percentage points compared to those recorded in the January-June period this year.