Photo taken on October 18, 2012 shows the construction site of a building in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province. China's fixed asset investment rose 20.5 percent year on year to 25.69 trillion yuan ($4.08 trillion) in the first nine months of 2012, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Thursday. The growth rate accelerated slightly by 0.1 percentage point from that in the first six months. However, it was down 4.4 percentage points from the same period last year, NBS data showed (XINHUA) |