China's fixed-asset investment went up 4.9 percent year on year in 2021, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed Monday.

Last year, the fixed-asset investment amounted to over 54.45 trillion yuan (about 8.56 trillion U.S. dollars), according to the NBS.

The growth came in at 8 percent compared with the 2019 level, and the two-year average growth stood at 3.9 percent.

Investment by the private sectors rose 7 percent year on year to nearly 30.77 trillion yuan last year, the NBS data showed.  ■