In the first half of the construction industry output 8.58771 trillion yuan

July 17, the National Bureau of Statistics announced the first half of 2017 the country's economic operation. In January-June, the GDP was 38.149 trillion yuan, up 6.9%. Among them, the national 

construction industry output 8.58771 trillion yuan, an increase of 10.9%, higher than the growth rate of gross domestic product.

Xing Zhihong, spokesman for the State Statistics Bureau, said that under the backdrop of further implementation of supply-side structural reforms and accelerated innovation-driven development 

strategy, the positive changes in the economic operation in the second half of the year will continue to increase. The steady and favorable development will Will be further consolidated and 

expanded. Since the beginning of this year, the index of service production has remained at a relatively high level of over 8%. Significant improvement in corporate efficiency, 1-5 month service 

sector above-scale operating profit maintained double-digit growth.

Statistics show that from January to June, the total investment for construction projects is 98.5885 trillion yuan, up 19.7%; the total investment in newly started projects is 23.7258 trillion 

yuan, down 1.2%; the number of newly started projects is 308,790, an increase of 7,195.

From January to June, the construction area of domestic construction industry was 9.7 billion square meters, up 3.5%; the completed area of houses was 415.24 million square meters, up 5%.

In the first half of the year, the growth of investment in fixed assets and non-state investment in fixed assets throughout the country played an active role in promoting the construction industry. 

Statistics show that from January to June, the national investment in fixed assets (excluding peasant households) stood at 28,060.5 billion yuan, an increase of 8.6% over the same period of 

previous year. The growth rate was in line with that in January-May. From the ring rate, in June than in May increased 0.73%.

According to statistics, the investment in infrastructure (excluding electricity, heat, gas and water production and supply) was 59.422 billion yuan, an increase of 21.1% over the same period of 

last year, which played a driving role in the output value of the construction industry. Among them, the investment in water conservancy management industry increased by 17.5%, 2.8 percentage 

points higher than that in January-May; the investment in public facilities management industry increased by 25.4%, 0.2 percentage points higher than that in January-May; the investment in road 

transport industry increased by 23.2% , Up 0.1 percentage points from January to May. Investment in the railway transportation industry increased by 1.9%, a deceleration of 1.5 percentage points 

over the first five months.

From the perspective of construction and newly started projects, the planned total investment in construction projects was 98.5885 trillion yuan, up 19.7% over the same period of last year, an 

increase of 0.3 percentage point over the first five months. The planned total investment of newly started projects was 23.7258 trillion yuan, down by 1.2% The decline narrowed 4.4 percentage 

points from January to May.

From the affiliation of the project, the central government invested 964 billion yuan, a decrease of 10.9% from the same period of last year, a drop of 0.7 percentage point from that in the first 

five months. The investment in local projects was 270965.5 billion yuan, up by 9.5%, 0.1 percentage point higher than that in the first five months percentage point. According to the breakdown of 

components, construction and installation of 198767 billion yuan, an increase of 9.2%.

In addition, from January to June, private investment in fixed assets reached 170.239 trillion yuan, up by 7.2% on a nominal basis and the growth rate was 0.4 percentage points higher than that in 

the first five months. Private investment in fixed assets accounted for the national investment in fixed assets (excluding farmers), the proportion of 60.7%, down 1.5 percentage points from 

January-May.

Statistics report also announced the first half of this year's national real estate development. From January to June, the national real estate development investment was 5,061.0 billion yuan, up 

8.5% over the same period of the previous year and the growth rate dropped 0.3 percentage points from January to May. Among them, the residential investment of 3431800000000 yuan, an increase of 

10.2%, growth rate increased by 0.2 percentage points. Residential investment in real estate development investment accounted for 67.8%.

1-6 months, real estate development enterprises housing construction area of 6923260000 square meters, an increase of 3.4%, an increase of 0.3 percentage points from January to May. Among them, the 

residential construction area of 472.722 million square meters, an increase of 2.9%. New construction area of 857.2 million square meters of housing, an increase of 10.6%, an increase of 1.1 

percentage points. Among them, the new residential area of 61.39 million square meters, an increase of 14.9%. Housing completed an area of 415.24 million square meters, an increase of 5.0%, the 

growth rate down 0.9 percentage points. Among them, the residential area of 297.6 million square meters completed, an increase of 2.5%.