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China's fixed asset investment up 25.6% in Jan-May
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-06-17 11:35

BEIJING -- China's urban fixed-asset investment rose 25.6 percent year-on-year to 4.0264 trillion yuan ($575.2 billion) in the first five months of 2008, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Tuesday.

The figure represents a slight drop of 0.3 percentage points over the same period of last year.