In the January-May period of this year, total fixed asset investment (FAI) (excluding rural households) in infrastructure in China was up 4.0 percent year on year, as stated by Wang Baobin, a senior statistician at China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), with the year-on-year increase rate in question 0.4 percentage points lower compared to that recorded for the January-April period this year. In particular, in the January-May period, fixed asset investment increased by 15.1 percent in railway transportation, by 41.5 percent in ecological protection and environmental management, and by 6.2 percent in road transportation, all year on year.