In the January-August period of the current year, total fixed asset investments (excluding rural households) in China amounted to RMB 39.415 trillion ($6.1 trillion), up 7.8 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 in the January-July period of the current year. In August, fixed asset investments (excluding rural households) in China increased by 0.57 percent month on month.
In the January-August period of the current year, total fixed asset investment in China's mining sector amounted to RMB 564.9 billion ($86.9 billion), down 7.0 percent year on year, while fixed asset investment in China's manufacturing sector totaled RMB 12.168 trillion ($1.872 trillion), up 4.5 percent year on year.