The real estate investment in China soared to 9.9 percent from January to February of 2018 in the same period last year, amid the weakened property sales despite the cooling measures of the government, according to the report of the National Bureau of Statistics published on Wednesday. Real estate is an important driver for the economy that has an impact on other 40 business sectors in China. High demand for a major boost for the country last year but this would gradually slow down official measures to curb property surmise to continue on sales. Property sales increase by area 6.1 percent in December based on the estimate of Reuters. Then in the next two months of the year, it increased by 4.1 percent year-on-year which was lower than the 7.7 percent gain last year. This reflects a big drop following the 22.5 percent rise in 2016 New construction began by measuring the floor area as it climbed to 2.9 percent in the first two months this year. Property investment rose moderately to 2.4 percent which has been the lowest rate since July 2016, based on the calculation of Reuters.
