In the first quarter, investment in chemical raw materials and products manufacturing increased by 19.2% year on year

According to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics on April 18, China's fixed-asset investment (excluding rural households) in the January-March period was 1,0728.2 billion yuan, up by 5.1 percent year on year. Among them, investment in chemical raw materials and chemical products manufacturing increased by 19.2 percent year on year.

The investment in the primary industry was 242.5 billion yuan, up 0.5% year on year; The investment in the secondary industry was 3,396.4 billion yuan, up 8.7%; The investment in the tertiary industry was 7,089.4 billion yuan, up 3.6%.

In the secondary sector, industrial investment grew 8.6 percent year on year. Investment in mining grew by 0.6%, manufacturing by 7.0% and electricity, heat, gas and water production and supply by 22.3%.

In the tertiary sector, investment in infrastructure (excluding the production and supply of electricity, heat, gas and water) grew 8.8 per cent year-on-year. Investment in water conservancy management increased by 10.3 percent, public facilities management by 7.7 percent, road transport by 8.5 percent, and railway transport by 17.6 percent.

Investment in eastern, central, western and northeastern regions grew by 6.5 percent year on year, 1.5 percent, 4.9 percent and 13.7 percent.

By registration type, the investment in fixed assets of domestic enterprises increased by 5.3% year-on-year, that of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan enterprises decreased by 3.4%, and that of foreign enterprises increased by 3.7%.