In the January-April period of the current year, total real estate investments in China amounted to RMB 2.7732 trillion ($0.402 trillion), up 9.3 percent year on year, with this growth rate up 0.2 percentage points compared to the year-on-year increase rate recorded in the January-March period this year, as announced by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on May 18.
Investments in residential dwellings in China in the January-April period of the current year amounted to RMB 1.8671 trillion ($0.27 trillion), up 10.6 percent year on year, accounting for 67.3 percent of total real estate investments in the country during the given period.
In the period in question, new commercial real estate sold in China covered a total area of 416.55 million m2, up 15.7 percent on year-on-year basis. The total area covered by new residential buildings sold in China in the given period increased by 13 percent, the total area covered by new office buildings sold increased by 49.3 percent, while the total area of new commercial business space sold during the given period was up 30.6 percent, all year on year.