OREANDA-NEWS. May 16, 2014. China's industrial added value expanded 8.7 percent year on year in the first four months of 2014, official figures revealed.
 
On a month-to-month basis, industrial added value in April also rose 8.7 percent from a year earlier and 0.82 percent from the previous month, the National Bureau of Statistics said.

China's urban fixed asset investment surged 17.3 percent year on year to 10.71 trillion yuan (1.74 trillion U.S. dollars) in the first four months, the National Bureau of Statistics said.
 
The growth rate was 0.3 percentage points slower than that for the first quarter.