In the January-February period of the current year, total fixed asset investments (excluding rural households) in China amounted to RMB 4.4626 trillion ($0.7 trillion), up 7.9 percent year on year, as announced by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), with the year-on-year increase rate in question up 0.7 percentage points compared to that recorded for the full year of 2017. In February alone, fixed asset investments (excluding rural households) in China increased by 0.61 percent month on month.
In the January-February period this year, total fixed asset investment in China's mining sector was down 13.0 percent year on year, while fixed asset investment in China's manufacturing sector was up 4.3 percent year on year.