In the January-September period this year, total fixed asset investments (excluding rural households) in China amounted to RMB 39.4531trillion ($6.20 trillion), up 10.3 percent year on year, as announced by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on October 19, with the year-on-year increase rate in question down 0.6 percentage points compared to that recorded in the January-August period of the current year. In September, fixed asset investments (excluding rural households) in China increased by 0.68 percent month on month.
In the January-September period this year, total fixed asset investment in China's mining sector amounted to RMB 932.7 billion ($146.7 billion), down eight percent year on year, which compares to a year-on-year decrease of 7.6 percent in the January-August period this year, while fixed asset investment in China's manufacturing sector totaled RMB 13.1127 trillion ($2.06 trillion), up 8.3 percent year on year, decreasing by 0.6 percentage points compared to the year-on-year increase recorded in the January-August period this year.