On July 17, the National Bureau of Statistics announced the national economic operation in the first half of 2017. From January to June, the GDP was 38.149 trillion yuan, an increase of 6.9%. Among them, the total output value of the national construction industry was 857.1 billion yuan, an increase of 10.9%, which was higher than the GDP.

Statistics show that from January to June, the total planned investment for construction projects was 98,888.5 billion yuan, an increase of 19.7%; the total planned investment for new projects was 2,37258 billion yuan, a decrease of 1.2%; the number of newly started projects was 308,790, an increase of 7,195.

From January to June, the construction area of houses in the construction industry nationwide was 9.70 billion square meters, an increase of 3.5%; the floor space of houses completed was 41.24 million square meters, an increase of 5%.

According to statistics, infrastructure investment (excluding electricity, heat, gas and water production and supply) was 592.22 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 21.1%, which played a driving role in the output value of the construction industry. Among them, investment in the water conservancy management industry increased by 17.5%, an increase of 2.8 percentage points over the period from January to May; investment in public facilities management industry increased by 25.4%, an increase of 0.2 percentage points over the period from January to May; investment in the road transport industry increased by 23.2% The growth rate increased by 0.1 percentage point from the first five months; the investment in the railway transportation industry increased by 1.9%, and the growth rate dropped by 1.5 percentage points from the first five months.

From the perspective of construction and newly started projects, the total planned investment for construction projects was 98,888.5 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 19.7%, an increase of 0.3 percentage points from the first five months; the total planned investment for newly started projects was 2,37258 billion yuan, a decrease of 1.2%, The decline was narrowed by 4.4 percentage points from January to May.

From the perspective of project affiliation, the investment in the central project was 964.4 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 10.9%, and the decrease rate was 0.7 percentage points larger than that in the first five months; percentage point. In terms of composition, construction and installation projects amounted to 1987.67 billion yuan, an increase of 9.2%.