China's fixed-asset investment went up 12.2 percent year on year in the first two months of the year, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed Tuesday.

During the period, the fixed-asset investment stood at around 5.076 trillion yuan (about 796.16 billion U.S. dollars), the bureau said.

Compared with the same period in 2021, the growth rate was up 7.3 percentage points, according to the NBS.  ■