Poster: China's investment in fixed assets up 1.8% from Jan-Feb 2026

From January to February, China's fixed-asset investment excluding rural households reached 5.2721 trillion yuan (about 764 billion U.S. dollars), up 1.8% year on year, reversing the 3.8-percent decline recorded for the whole of last year, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed on March 17.

By industry, investment in the primary industry was 109.3 billion yuan, representing a year-on-year increase of 17.4%; investment in the secondary industry was 1,743.4 billion yuan, up 5.4%; and investment in the tertiary industry was 3,419.4 billion yuan, down 0.4%.

According to the data, the industrial investment increased by 5.4% year-over-year. Specifically, the investment in mining increased by 13.0%, the investment in manufacturing increased by 3.1%, and the investment in production and supply of electricity, heat power, gas and water increased by 13.1%.

Source: National Bureau of Statistics of China