Workers check a vehicle before it goes offline in the Qingdao branch of carmaker SGMW in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province, July 15, 2015. In the first half of the year, China's fixed-asset investment hit 23.71 trillion yuan (about 3.82 trillion U.S. dollars), up 11.4 percent year on year, according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on July 15. (Xinhua/Yu Fangping)
