In the face of emerging economic challenges home and abroad, China has stepped up efforts to stabilize investment, in particular rolling out measures to motivate private investors and channel funds into infrastructure.

The key indicator of investment, dubbed a major growth driver, hit the bottom in August and has since started to rebound steadily.

The FAI climbed 5.9 percent year-on-year in the first 11 months of 2018, quickening from the 5.7-percent growth in Jan-Oct, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Friday in an online statement

China's fixed-asset investment (FAI) has picked up pace for a third straight month, official data showed, an encouraging sign amid increasing downward pressures on the wider economy