In the first half year, all the construction enterprises in China (refers to those construction enterprises having overall or professional contracting qualification, excluding those sub-contractors in labor services, same as follows) achieved construction gross output value at 2,750.2 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 21.3 percent.

The total area of housing construction by these enterprises was 3836 million square meters, a year-on-year increase of 3.8 percent.

(National Bureau of Statistics July 20, 2009)