In the January-March period of the current year, private sector fixed asset
investments in
China amounted to RMB 5.7313 trillion ($0.833 trillion), up 7.7 percent year on year, as announced by
China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), with the year-on-year increase rate in question up 1.0 percentage point compared to that recorded in the January-February period. The proportion of private sector fixed asset
investments in total fixed asset
investments (excluding rural households) in
China in the first quarter came to 61.1 percent.