In the first seven months of this year, the investment in fixed assets (excluding rural households) reached 15,242 billion yuan, up by 25.4 percent year-on-year, or 0.2 percentage point lower than that in the first six months of this year. Of this total, that in the state-owned and state holding enterprises reached 5,275.2 billion yuan, a rise of 13.6 percent; In view of month-on month, the investment in fixed assets (excluding rural households) rose 0.27 percent.

In the first seven months of this year, the investment in primary industry, secondary industry and the tertiary industry was 353.9, 6,677.7 and 8,210.4 billion yuan, respectively went up by 22.8, 26.7 and 24.5 percent. In the first seven months of this year, the investment in industry reached 6,514.8 billion yuan, increased 26.4 percent; in which the investment in mining of ores, manufacture, production and supply of electric power and heat power was 525.4, 5,288.3 and 701.2 billion yuan, respectively rose by 15.8, 31.8 and 2.1 percent.

In term of different areas, the growth in eastern, central and western regions was 22.6, 30.5 and 29.2 percent respectively.

In terms of jurisdiction of project management, in the first seven months of this year, the central investment reached 907.5 billion yuan, and the year-on-year fell was 4.7 percent while the local investment was 14,334.5 billion yuan, up by 28.0 percent. In terms of status of registration, in the first seven months of this year, the investment by domestic enterprises was 14,175.4 billion yuan, up by 26.1 percent; investment by funds from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan was 494.6 billion yuan, up by 24.6 percent; and the investment by foreign funds was 505.4 billion yuan, up by 17.8 percent.

Analysis on projects under construction or started this year showed that in the first seven months of this year, the total planned investment in projects under construction reached 50,283.4 billion yuan, up by 19.4 percent year-on-year; and the total planned investment in newly started projects was 13,630.3 billion yuan, up by 19.3 percent over the same period of last year.

In terms of paid-in funds, in the first seven months of this year, 18,355.2 billion yuan had been invested, a year-on-year growth of 23.4 percent. Of this total, the growth of government budgetary funds went up by 14.1 percent; investment from domestic loans went up by 10.6 percent; that from self-raising funds went up by 29.3 percent, that from foreign investment rose by 15.1 percent, and other investment rose by 16.2 percent.

In the first seven months of this year, the investment in real estate development was 3,187.3 billion yuan, a year-on-year growth of 33.6 percent. Specifically, the investment in residential buildings reached 2,278.9 billion yuan, up by 36.4 percent. The floor space of commercial buildings sold reached 520.37 million square meters, a year-on-year growth of 13.6 percent. Specifically, the growth of residential buildings was up by 12.9 percent. In the first seven months of this year, the sources of funds for real estate development enterprises from the current year reached 4,785.2 billion yuan, up by 23.1 percent year-on-year. In July, the national real estate climate index was 101.50.