BEIJING, Dec. 12 -- China's fixed asset investment rose 15.8 percent from one year earlier to 45.11 trillion yuan (7.40 trillion U.S. dollars) in the first 11 months of 2014, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Friday.

The pace of increase slowed further from the 15.9-percent growth registered in the January-October period and 16.1-percent growth in the January-September period.