On July 17, the National Bureau of Statistics announced the national economic operation in the first half of 2017. From January to June, GDP reached 38149bn yuan, an increase of 6.9%. Among them, the total output value of the national construction industry is 8587.1 billion yuan, an increase of 10.9%, higher than the GDP.
Xing Zhihong, spokesman of the National Bureau of statistics, said that under the background of in-depth implementation of supply side structural reform and accelerated promotion of innovation driven development strategy, positive changes in China's economic operation in the second half of the year will continue to increase, and the steady and positive development trend will be further consolidated and expanded. Since this year, the service industry production index has remained at a high level of more than 8%. The efficiency of enterprises has improved significantly, and the operating profit of service enterprises above designated size has maintained double-digit growth from January to May.
Statistics show that from January to June, the total planned investment of construction projects is 98588.5 billion yuan, up 19.7%; the total planned investment of new projects is 23725.8 billion yuan, down 1.2%; the number of new projects is 308790, up 7195.
From January to June, the construction area of housing in the national construction industry was 9.7 billion square meters, an increase of 3.5%; the completed area of housing was 415.24 million square meters, an increase of 5%.
In the first half of the year, China's fixed asset investment and private fixed asset investment increased, which played a positive role in promoting the construction industry. Statistics show that from January to June, the national fixed asset investment (excluding farmers) was 28060.5 billion yuan, an increase of 8.6% year on year, and the growth rate was the same as that from January to May. In terms of the link speed, June was 0.73% higher than May.
According to statistics, infrastructure investment (excluding power, heat, gas and water production and supply industries) is 5942.2 billion yuan, up 21.1% year-on-year, which plays a driving role in the output value of the construction industry. Among them, investment in water conservancy management increased by 17.5%, 2.8 percentage points higher than that in January may; investment in public facilities management increased by 25.4%, 0.2 percentage points higher than that in January may; investment in road transportation increased by 23.2%, 0.1 percentage points higher than that in January may; investment in railway transportation increased by 1.9%, 1.5 percentage points lower than that in January may.
From the perspective of construction and newly started projects, the total planned investment of construction projects is 98588.5 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 19.7%, 0.3 percentage points higher than that from January to May; the total planned investment of newly started projects is 23725.8 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 1.2%, a decrease of 4.4 percentage points lower than that from January to May.
From the perspective of project affiliation, the central project investment is 964 billion yuan, down 10.9% year-on-year, 0.7 percentage points higher than that from January to May; the local project investment is 27096.5 billion yuan, up 9.5%, 0.1 percentage points higher than that from January to May. According to the structural composition, the construction and installation project is 19876.7 billion yuan, an increase of 9.2%.
In addition, from January to June, private fixed asset investment reached 17023.9 billion yuan, a year-on-year nominal growth of 7.2%, an increase of 0.4 percentage points over January to May. The proportion of private fixed asset investment in the national fixed asset investment (excluding farmers) is 60.7%, down 0.3 percentage points from January to May.
The statistical report also released the development of real estate nationwide in the first half of this year. From January to June, China's real estate development investment reached 5061 billion yuan, with a year-on-year nominal growth of 8.5%, 0.3 percentage points lower than that from January to May. Among them, the investment in housing is 3431.8 billion yuan, up 10.2% and 0.2% respectively. The proportion of residential investment in real estate development investment is 67.8%.
From January to June, the housing construction area of real estate development enterprises was 6923.26 million square meters, a year-on-year increase of 3.4%, 0.3 percentage points higher than that from January to May. Among them, the residential construction area is 4727.22 million square meters, an increase of 2.9%. The newly constructed area of housing is 857.2 million square meters, an increase of 10.6% and 1.1 percentage points. Among them, 613.99 million square meters of new housing construction area increased by 14.9%. The completed area of the house is 415240000 square meters, an increase of 5.0%, and the growth rate drops by 0.9 percentage points. Among them, the completed residential area is 297.6 million square meters, an increase of 2.5%.