Growth in China's real estate investment sector slowed down in the first half of the year.
The National Bureau of Statistics reports that property investment rose 14.1 percent year on year in the first six months.
That was 0.6 percentage points down from the first five months and 2.7 percentage points down from the first quarter.
For residential property, investment growth registered a decline of 0.9 percentage points from the first five months.
China's property market has kept cooling since the beginning of the year.
For more on China's property market, we are joined live by Benjamin Cavender, Associate principal at China Market Research in Shanghai.
