BEIJING - China's value-added industrial output expanded 5.2 percent year-on-year in August, official data showed on Monday.

The growth slowed from a 5.7-percent rise in July, according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics.

In the first eight months of this year, China's industrial output increased by 6.2 percent compared to the same period last year.

The industrial output is used to measure the activity of large enterprises, each with an annual main business turnover of at least 20 million yuan ($2.8 million).

A breakdown of the data showed that the manufacturing sector's value-added output increased by 5.7 percent year-on-year last month, while that of mining grew by 5.1 percent. The value-added output of the electricity, heat, gas, water production and supply sector rose by 2.4 percent. 

The data released by the bureau also indicated China's retail sales of consumer goods, a major indicator of the country's consumption strength, expanded 3.4 percent year-on-year in August.

Meanwhile, the country's fixed-asset investment rose 0.5 percent year-on-year in the first eight months of 2025, according to the bureau's data.

On the labor market, the surveyed urban unemployment rate on average stood at 5.3 percent in August, the data showed.

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Residential housing prices in China's 70 large and medium-sized cities continued to see narrowed year-on-year declines in August, while the prices also dropped on a monthly basis, according to the bureau.