China's First-Quarter Mining Investments Drop 18.1% from Year Earlier

BEIJING--April 20, 2016--Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Beijing, China)--China's investment in mining during first-quarter 2016 dropped 18.1% to $18.41 billion from the same period last year, according to the latest report by the National Bureau of Statistics of China. Private sector investments alone fell 7.1% to $11.41 billion, the bureau reported. Within this article: Compares first quarter 2016 investment and private sector investment in certain areas of the Mining Industry with figures from the same period of last year.