In the January-April period of the current year, total fixed asset investments (excluding rural households) in China amounted to RMB 15.4358 trillion ($2.4 trillion), up 7.0 percent year on year, as announced by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), with the year-on-year increase rate in question down 0.5 percentage points compared to that recorded for the January-March period this year. In April alone, fixed asset investments (excluding rural households) in China increased by 0.52 percent month on month.
In the January-April period this year, total fixed asset investment in China's mining sector was down 2.0 percent year on year, while fixed asset investment in China's manufacturing sector rose by 43.8 percent year on year.