Infrastructure project reports steady progress

State builders working on a highway linking inland cities in Sichuan and Gansu provinces report steady progress on a major tunnel in Nanchong, Sichuan province. China Railway 24th Bureau Group Corp, a unit of China Railway Construction Corp, said in a recent construction progress report that it is partly undertaking the building of the Langzhong-Yingshan expressway, and has recently bored through the right lane of the Binzishan tunnel in mountainous Nanchong, Sichuan province. China's fixed-asset investment rose 3.4 percent year on year in the first eight months of 2024, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed recently. Investment in infrastructure construction rose 4.4 percent from a year ago during the January-August period, and manufacturing investment increased 9.1 percent.