China's fixed-asset investment maintained stable growth in the first half of 2025, with sectors of infrastructure and manufacturing attracting steady capital inflows, a senior official from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Tuesday.
Sheng Laiyun, deputy head of the NBS, made the statement at a press conference in Beijing in briefing on China's economic performance in the first half of the year.
"In the first half of this year, China's investment in fixed assets reached 24.9 trillion yuan (about 3.48 trillion U.S. dollars), up 2.8 percent year on year. After the deduction of investment in real estate development, the country's fixed-asset investment went up by 6.6 percent year on year. Specifically, investment in infrastructure construction rose 4.6 percent from the same period of last year and manufacturing investment climbed 7.5 percent year on year. Investment in real estate development declined by 11.2 percent from the same period of last year. The floor space of newly built commercial buildings sold across the country hit 458.51 million square meters, down 3.5 percent year on year. The total sales of newly built commercial buildings dropped 5.5 percent year on year," Sheng said.
"In the first six months, investment in the primary industry went up 6.5 percent, investment in the secondary industry up by 10.2 percent and that in the tertiary industry down by 1.1 percent year on year. Private investment dipped 0.6 percent year on year. Stripping out real estate investment, private investment gained 5.1 percent," said the official.
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