China's fixed assets investment in the first half of 2008 rose 26.3 percent from a year earlier, up 0.4 percentage points from the same period of last year, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Thursday.

The overall investment in assets stood at 6.8402 trillion yuan (US$1.0059 trillion) in the first half of this year, said the NBS.

(Xinhua News Agency July 17, 2008)