China Railway Engineering Corporation recently announced that in the first half of 2013, the investment in railway fixed assets was 215.931 billion RMB, an increase of 38.18 billion RMB over the same period last year, and also an increase of 21.5% over the same period last year. Among them, the capital construction investment was 186.972 billion RMB, an increase of 38.266 billion RMB over the same time last year, and also an increase of 25.7% over the same period last year.