In the January-February period of the current year, private sector fixed assets investments in China amounted to RMB 2.6963 trillion ($0.4 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 1.2 percentage points compared to that recorded last year. The share of private sector fixed assets investment in total fixed assets investment (excluding rural households) in China in the given period was 60.1 percent.