In the first four months of 2017, the investment in fixed assets (excluding rural households) reached 14,432.7 billion yuan, up by 8.9 percent year-on-year, and the growth rate was 0.3 percentage points lower than that of the first three months. After seasonal adjustments, in April, the investment in fixed assets increased 0.71 percent from March.

In term of different industries, the investment in primary industry was 393.1 billion yuan, went up by 19.1 percent year-on-year; that of secondary industry was 5,459.6 billion yuan, went up by 3.5 percent; that of tertiary industry was 8,580.1 billion yuan, went up by 12.1 percent. The increase amounts above all fell back.

In secondary industry, the investment in industry reached 5,379.1 billion yuan, increased 3.8 percent year-on-year, and the growth rate decreased 1.1 percentage points from the first three months. Of which, the investment in mining industry stood at 183.4 billion yuan, went down by 9.5 percent, and the pace of decline extended by 2.4 percentage points; that of manufacture, 4,537.9 billion yuan, increased 4.9 percent, and the growth rate decreased 0.9 percentage points; that of production and supply of electric power, heat power, gas and water, 657.9 billion yuan, increased 1.2 percent, a decrease of 1.4 percentage points.

In tertiary industry, the investment in infrastructure (excluding electric power, heat power, gas and water) was 2,978.9 billion yuan, increased 23.3 percent year-on-year, and the growth rate decreased 0.2 percentage points from the first three months. Of which, the investment in management of water conservancy increased 16.1 percent, down by 2.2 percentage points; that of management of public facilities increased 28.4 percent, up by 1.0 percentage point; that of transport via road increased 24.6 percent, down by 0.1 percentage point; that of transport via railway increased 3.5 percent, down by 7.3 percentage points.

In term of different areas, the investment in eastern region amounted to 6,745.2 billion yuan, rose by 9.1 percent year-on-year, and the growth rate decreased 0.6 percentage points from the first three months; that of central region, 3,839.9 billion yuan, increased 10.3 percent, a decrease of 1.3 percentage points; that of western region, 3,426.4 billion yuan, increased 11.0 percent, an increase of 1.6 percentage points; that of northeastern region, 320.7 billion yuan, decreased 18.7 percent, and the pace of decline extended by 3.2 percentage points.

In term of types of registration, the investment by domestic enterprises was 13,706.5 billion yuan, went up by 9.6 percent year-on-year, and the growth rate decreased 0.4 percentage points from the first three months; investment by funds from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan was 364.0 billion yuan, went down by 4.4 percent, and the pace of decline extended by 1.7 percentage points; and the investment by foreign funds was 327.6 billion yuan, down by 0.3 percent, while that of the first three months was up by 0.3 percent.

In terms of jurisdiction of project management, the central investment reached 499.4 billion yuan, decreased 9.2 percent year-on-year, and the pace of decline extended by 2.1 percentage points; the local investment was 13,933.3 billion yuan, up by 9.6 percent, and the growth rate decreased 0.3 percentage points from the first three months.

Analysis on projects under construction or started this year showed that, the total planned investment in projects under construction reached 80,969.4 billion yuan, up by 19.0 percent year-on-year, and the growth rate decreased 2.7 percentage points from the first three months. The total planned investment in newly started projects was 10,791.1 billion yuan, down by 5.9 percent year-on-year, and the pace of decline narrowed by 0.6 percentage points.

In terms of paid-in funds, 15,579.3 billion yuan had been invested, decreased 1.4 percent year-on-year, and the pace of decline narrowed by 1.5 percentage points from the first three months. Of this total, the growth of government budgetary funds went down by 0.1 percent, and the pace of decline narrowed by 7.0 percentage points, investment from domestic loans went up by 0.9 percent, while it was down by 2.0 percent in the first three months, that from self-raising funds went down by 7.1 percent, and the pace of decline narrowed by 2.7 percentage points, that from foreign investment decreased 13.6 percent, and the pace of decline extended by 8.3 percentage points, other investment went up by 19.2 percent, and the growth rate decreased 5.3 percentage points.

Annotations:

1. Explanatory Notes on Indicators

Investment in fixed assets (excluding rural households): refers to the total workload on construction and purchase for fixed assets during a certain period in the form of currency, as well as the concerning expenses.

Paid-in fund: refers to all funds received by investment units used for fixed assets during the reference period, including state budgetary fund, domestic loans, foreign investment, self-raised funds, and others.

Newly started project: refers to all newly started construction projects during the reference period.

Stat-holding Enterprises: including absolutely state-holding enterprises, relatively state-holding enterprises and consultatively state-holding enterprises. Absolutely state-holding enterprises refer to those enterprises that the proportion of state investment capital to the total actual capital (or capital stock) is larger than 50 percent.

Relatively state-holding enterprises refer to those enterprises that the proportion of state investment capital to the total actual capital (or capital stock) is less than 50 percent, but larger than any other single share holders. Consultatively state-holding enterprises refer to those enterprises that the proportion of state investment capital to the total actual capital (or capital stock) is less than other share holders, but owning the real control power regulated by agreement.

The enterprises which the proportion of investment capital of the two investors is 50 percent, and the share holding control power is not clearly stated by either side, if one of them is state-owned, are all classified as the state-holding enterprises without exception.

The investment projects invested by the administrative and institutional units are all classified as state-holding.

Types of Registration: the types of registration on the enterprises are based on the Provisions for the Classification of Types of Enterprise Registration jointly issued by NBS and State Administration of Industry and Commerce. And that on the individual operation is based on Note on the Code & Classification of Types of Individual Operation Registration.

According to the provision of statistical reporting system, all grassroots units shall fill in registration types. The registration types shall be filled in by the enterprises or individual operation units engaged in investment in fixed assets. Those who have already registered in the industrial and commercial administrative units, shall fill in based on the registration types, if unregistered, shall be filled in based on the registration types of investors or that on the provisions of related papers.

Domestic enterprise includes state-owned enterprise, collective enterprise, joint enterprise, limited liability enterprise, share-holding enterprise, private enterprise and others.

Enterprises with funds from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan includes joint-venture and cooperation by Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Sole Investment, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Funded Share-holding Corporations Ltd., and other investment enterprises by Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.

Foreign investment enterprise includes joint-venture and cooperation enterprises, foreign funded enterprise, foreign funded share-holding corporations Ltd., and other foreign investment enterprises.

2. Statistical Coverage

Refers to construction projects on fixed assets and real estates involving a total planned investment of 5 million yuan and over.

3. Data Collection

The report of investment on fixed assets is collected monthly with complete enumeration (no report in January).

4. Classification on East, Central and West Region

Eastern region: including Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Shandong, Guangdong and Hainan. Central region: including Shanxi, Anhui, Jiangxi, Henan, Hubei and Hunan. Western region: including Inner Mongolia, Guangxi, Chongqing, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Tibet, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia and Xinjiang. Northeastern region:  including Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang.

5. Standard Industrial Classification

Since 2012, NBS performed the new standard on industrial classification for national economic activities (GB/T 4754-2011), please refer to  http://www.stats.gov.cn/tjsj/tjbz/hyflbz. 

6. Revision on Month-on-Month Data

According to the auto-revision function of the seasonal adjustment model, the month-on-month growth rate of investment on fixed assets from April 2016 to April 2017 has been revised as follows: