In the January-September period of the current year, total fixed asset investments (excluding rural households) in China amounted to RMB 45.8478 trillion ($6.9 trillion), up 7.5 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-August period of the current year. In September, fixed asset investments (excluding rural households) in China increased by 0.56 percent month on month.
In the January-September period this year, total fixed asset investment in China's mining sector amounted to RMB 669.2 billion ($100.9 billion), down 9.2 percent year on year, while fixed asset investment in China's manufacturing sector totaled RMB 14.0819 trillion ($2.124 trillion), up 4.2 percent year on year.