China's fixed-asset investment dropped 6.7 percent year on year in the first seven months of 2026, official data showed on Monday.
Investment totaled around 26 trillion yuan (about 3.84 trillion U.S. dollars) during this period, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said in a statement.
Excluding the property sector, the country's fixed-asset investment went down 3.7 percent in the first seven months of the year.
Notably, investment in intellectual property products rose by 9.1 percent year on year. It accounted for 14.8 percent of total investment, up 2.1 percentage points from the same period last year, and contributed 1.2 percentage points to overall investment growth.
By sector, investment in the mining sector rose by 3.3 percent year on year, while manufacturing investment fell 1.7 percent, and infrastructure investment slipped by 3.6 percent from a year earlier, according to the NBS.
