China News Agency, Beijing, June 15 (Reporter Wang Enbo) The National Bureau of Statistics of China announced on the 15th that from January to May, China's fixed asset investment (excluding farmers) was 199.494 billion yuan (RMB, the same below), a year-on-year decrease of 6.3% The decline rate was 4.0 percentage points narrower than that from January to April.
In terms of different fields, infrastructure investment decreased by 6.3% year-on-year, investment in manufacturing decreased by 14.8%, and investment in real estate development decreased by 0.3%, which were 5.5, 4.0, and 3.0 percentage points narrower than those in January-April. The sales area of commercial housing nationwide was 487.03 million square meters, a year-on-year decrease of 12.3%; the sales of commercial housing was 4.6269 trillion yuan, a decrease of 10.6%, which were 7.0 and 8.0 percentage points narrower than those in the first four months.
In view of different industries, the investment in the primary industry was flat year-on-year, a decrease of 5.4% from January to April; the investment in the secondary industry decreased by 11.8%, and the investment in the tertiary industry decreased by 3.9%, which was 4.2 and 3.9 percentage points narrower than those from January to April respectively .
Ding Yong, chief statistician of the Investment Department of the National Bureau of Statistics, said that with the effective control of China's domestic epidemic and the orderly recovery of economic and social order, under the effect of a series of stable investment policies, the construction of investment projects continued to accelerate, and the decline in investment continued for three consecutive times. Monthly narrowing, the growth rate of investment in high-tech industries and social fields have all changed from negative to positive.
From January to May, investment in high-tech industries increased by 1.9%, and from January to April, it decreased by 3.0%. Among them, investment in high-tech manufacturing and high-tech service industries increased by 2.7% and 0.5%, respectively. In the high-tech manufacturing industry, the computer and office equipment manufacturing industry and the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry increased by 12.0% and 6.9% respectively; in the high-tech service industry, the investment in the e-commerce service industry and the technology achievement transformation service industry increased by 25.4% and 25.2%, respectively.
From January to May, investment in the social sector increased by 3.6%, and from January to April it decreased by 3.1%. Among them, investment in education and health increased by 10.4% and 9.5%, respectively, an increase of 7.5 and 4.8 percentage points from January to April.
In addition, private investment continued to recover. From January to May, private investment fell by 9.6% year-on-year, a decrease of 3.7 percentage points from January to April. Among them, the decline in private investment in infrastructure narrowed by 4.7 percentage points, the decline in private investment in manufacturing narrowed by 4.0 percentage points, the decline in private investment in real estate development narrowed by 3.5 percentage points, the decline in private investment in social fields narrowed by 6.2 percentage points, agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery The decline in private investment narrowed by 5.6 percentage points. (Finish)