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1st LD: China's fixed-asset investment down 5.7 pct in first six months

Xinhua
| July 15, 2026
2026-07-15

BEIJING, July 15 (Xinhua) -- China's fixed-asset investment dropped 5.7 percent year on year in the first six months of 2026, official data showed Wednesday.

The investment totaled nearly 22.64 trillion yuan (about 3.33 trillion U.S. dollars) during the period, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said in a statement.

Excluding the property sector, the country's fixed-asset investment went down 2.7 percent in the first six months.

By sector, investment in intellectual property products grew 9.4 percent year on year, 1.5 percentage points faster than in the first quarter of this year.

Infrastructure investment declined 2.4 percent from a year earlier, while manufacturing investment slipped 1.2 percent, according to the NBS. Enditem

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