BEIJING, July 19 (Xinhua) -- China's fixed assets investment in the first half of this year totaled 5.4168 trillion yuan (716.5billion U.S. dollars), up 25.9 percent year on year. The growth is3.9 percentage points lower than that of the same period of 2006, the National Bureau of Statistics said Thursday.

    Investment in urban areas reached 4.6078 trillion yuan, up 26.7percent, while the investment in the rural area came to 809 billion yuan, up 21.5 percent.