From January to July 2013, the investment in fixed assets (excluding rural households) reached 22,172.2 billion yuan, up by 20.1 percent year-on-year in nominal terms, remained at the same level over that in the first six months of 2013. In July, the investment in fixed assets (excluding rural households) increased 1.58 percent, month-on-month.

In term of different industries, from January to July, the investment in primary industry was 482.7 billion yuan, went up by 32.8 percent year-on-year, decreased 0.7 percentage point over that in the first six months; that of secondary industry was 9,576.5 billion yuan, went up by 16.0 percent, increased 0.4 percentage point; that of tertiary industry was 12,113.0 billion yuan, went up by 23.1 percent, decreased 0.4 percentage point over last month. In secondary industry, the investment in industry reached 9,392.6 billion yuan, increased 16.6 percent, and the growth rate increased 0.4 percentage point over that in the first six months. Of which, the investment in mining industry stood at 686.8 billion yuan, went up by 9.8 percent, increased 1.0 percentage points; that of manufacture, 7,728.1 billion yuan, increased 17.1 percent, kept at the same level over last month; that of production and supply of electric power, heat power, gas and water, 977.7 billion yuan, climbed 17.6 percent, and increased 3.1 percentage points.

In term of different areas, from January to July, the investment in eastern region amounted to 10,550.7 billion yuan, rose by 18.7 percent year-on-year, remained at the same level over last month; that of central region, 6,110.4 billion yuan, surged 23.5 percent, and 0.1 percentage point lower than that in the first six months; that of western region, 5,396.3 billion yuan, increased 22.7 percent, the growth rate kept at the same level over last month.

In term of types of registration, from January to July, the investment by domestic enterprises was 20,885.9 billion yuan, up by 21.2 percent year-on-year, 0.1 percentage point lower than that in the first six months;; investment by funds from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan was 587.2 billion yuan, up by 8.2 percent, 0.7 percentage point higher; and the investment by foreign funds was 597.4 billion yuan, up by 4.1 percent, increased 0.2 percentage point.

In terms of jurisdiction of project management, from January to July, the central investment reached 1,055.0 billion yuan, increased 12.4 percent year-on-year, increased 2.7 percentage points than that in the first six months; while the local investment was 21,117.3 billion yuan, up by 20.5 percent, and decreased 0.2 percentage point.

Analysis on projects under construction or started this year showed that, from January to July, the total planned investment in projects under construction reached 68,438.0 billion yuan, up by 18.8 percent year-on-year, the growth rate kept at the same level over last month. The total planned investment in newly started projects was 20,104.5 billion yuan, up by 13.2 percent year-on-year, decreased 1.9 percentage points.

In terms of paid-in funds, from January to July, 25,923.7 billion yuan had been invested, rose by 20.5 percent year-on-year, 0.4 percentage points higher than that in the first six months. Of this total, the growth of government budgetary funds went up by 21.2 percent, 2.3 percentage points higher; investment from domestic loans went up by 15.2 percent, 2.2 percentage points higher; that from self-raising funds went up by 19.2 percent, 0.6 percentage points higher; that from foreign investment decreased 6.3 percent, 2.1 percentage points lower; other investment rose by 35.3 percent, 4.2 percentage points lower.

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.

State-owned and 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.

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/tjbz.

6. Explanatory Notes on Growth Rate

The growth rate of investment in fixed assets are calculated in nominal except that in Jan.- Mar., Jan.-Jun., Jan-Sep. and Jan.-Dec. in case of the price indices of investment in fixed assets are calculated on quarterly.

7. 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 June 2012 to July 2013 has been revised as follows: