China's fixed assets investment in urban areas surged 25.9 percent year-on-year to 3,204.5 billion yuan (US$420.3 billion) between January and May, the National Bureau of Statistics announced on Friday.

 

The rate was 0.4 percentage points higher than the 25.5 percent growth in the first fourth months.

 

(Xinhua News Agency June 15, 2007)