In the January-April period of the current year, total fixed asset investments (excluding rural households) in China amounted to RMB 14.4327 trillion ($2.09 trillion), up 8.9 percent year on year, as announced by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), with the year-on-year increase rate in question 0.3 percentage points lower than that recorded in the January-March period of the current year. In April alone, fixed asset investments (excluding rural households) in China increased by 0.71 percent month on month.