In the January-August period of the current year, total fixed asset investments (excluding rural households) in China amounted to RMB 41.5158 trillion ($6.1 trillion), up 5.3 percent year on year, as announced by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), with the year-on-year increase rate in question down 0.2 percentage points compared to that recorded for the January-July period this year. In August alone, fixed asset investments (excluding rural households) in China increased by 0.44 percent month on month.
In the January-August period this year, total fixed asset investment in China's mining sector was up 5.9 percent year on year, while fixed asset investment in China's manufacturing sector rose by 7.5 percent year on year.