(Yicai Global) Nov. 16 -- China's value-added industrial output, an important economic indicator, kept to the same rate of increase in October from a month earlier.

Output went up 6.9 percent from a year ago, data that the National Bureau of Statistics released today show.

In the first 10 months of this year, the country's fixed-asset investment rose by 1.8 percent to CNY48.3 trillion (USD7.3 trillion) from a year ago, one percentage point higher than the increase in the first nine months, the bureau also revealed.

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