In the January-July period of the current year, total fixed asset investments (excluding rural households) in China amounted to RMB 33.7409 trillion ($5.7 trillion), up 8.3 percent year on year, as announced by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), with the year-on-year increase rate in question down 0.3 percentage points compared to that recorded in the January-June period of the current year. In July, fixed asset investments (excluding rural households) in China increased by 0.61 percent month on month.
In the January-July period of the current year, total fixed asset investment in China's mining sector amounted to RMB 482.5 billion ($72.5 billion), down 6.1 percent year on year, while fixed asset investment in China's manufacturing sector totaled RMB 10.4389 trillion ($1.568 trillion), up 4.8 percent year on year.