BEIJING - China's fixed-asset investment went up 4 percent year-on-year in the first four months of 2025, official data showed Monday.

Excluding the property sector, the country's fixed-asset investment grew 8 percent year-on-year during this period, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).

Infrastructure investment rose 5.8 percent year-on-year, while manufacturing investment increased 8.8 percent.

By industry, investment in the primary industry grew 13.2 percent year-on-year, while secondary industry investment rose 11.7 percent. The tertiary industry saw investment decrease by 0.2 percent.

In the high-tech sector, investment in information services surged 40.6 percent, while computer and office equipment manufacturing investment increased 28.9 percent. Investment in aviation, spacecraft and equipment manufacturing grew 23.9 percent, and professional technical services investment rose 17.6 percent.

Monday's data also showed that China's value-added industrial output expanded 6.1 percent year-on-year in April, while the retail sales of consumer goods, a major indicator of the country's consumption strength, grew 5.1 percent year-on-year. The surveyed urban unemployment rate on average in China dropped to 5.1 percent in April.

In April, the impact of external shocks increased, but with coordinated macro policy efforts, the main economic indicators maintained steady and relatively fast growth, and the Chinese economy continued its upward trend, said the NBS.

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