National Bureau of Statistics： The decline in investment in fixed assets has narrowed significantly, and investment in high-tech industries and social fields has rebounded.

CCTV News:The State Council Press Office held a press conference at 10: 00 a.m. on July 16th. Liu Aihua, spokesperson of the National Bureau of Statistics and director of the National Economic Statistics Department, introduced the national economic operation in the first half of 2020 and answered questions from reporters. Liu Aihua said that the decline in investment in fixed assets has narrowed significantly, and investment in high-tech industries and social sectors has rebounded.

Liu Aihua introduced that in the first half of the year, the national investment in fixed assets (excluding farmers) was 28,160.3 billion yuan, down 3.1% year-on-year, with a decrease ratio of 1-mdash; It narrowed by 3.2 percentage points in May, which was 13.0 percentage points lower than that in the first quarter. In terms of fields, investment in infrastructure decreased by 2.7%, while investment in manufacturing decreased by 11.7%, which was 17.0 and 13.5 percentage points lower than that in the first quarter respectively. Investment in real estate development increased by 1.9%, down by 7.7% in the first quarter. The national commercial housing sales area was 694.04 million square meters, down 8.4%; The sales volume of commercial housing was 6,689.5 billion yuan, down 5.4%, and the decline rate was narrowed by 17.9 and 19.3 percentage points respectively compared with the first quarter. In terms of industries, investment in the primary industry increased by 3.8%, and decreased by 13.8% in the first quarter; Investment in the secondary industry decreased by 8.3%, and investment in the tertiary industry decreased by 1.0%, which were 13.6 and 12.5 percentage points narrower than those in the first quarter respectively. Private investment was 1,578.67 billion yuan, down 7.3%, and the decline rate was 11.5 percentage points narrower than that in the first quarter. Investment in high-tech industries increased by 6.3%, down by 12.1% in the first quarter; Among them, investment in high-tech manufacturing and high-tech service industries increased by 5.8% and 7.2% respectively. In high-tech manufacturing, the investment in pharmaceutical manufacturing, computer and office equipment manufacturing increased by 13.6% and 8.2% respectively; Among the high-tech service industries, the investment in e-commerce service industry and scientific and technological achievements transformation service industry increased by 32.0% and 21.8% respectively.Investment in social fields increased by 5.3%, down by 8.8% in the first quarter; Among them, investment in health and education increased by 15.2% and 10.8% respectively, and decreased by 0.9% and 4.0% respectively in the first quarter. From the ring comparison, investment in fixed assets (excluding farmers) increased by 5.91% in June compared with the previous month.