Kazakhstan's fixed investment increased by 7.1% in Jan-July 2013

"The volume of investment in fixed assets in January-July 2013 amounted to 2.8 trillion tenge, which is 7.1% more than in January-July 2012," he said.

He noted that the volume of industrial production in comparison with the same period of 2012 increased by 1.9% to 10.2 trillion in current prices.

For example, production in the mining sector increased by 2.6%, processing industry - by 1.3, in electricity, gas, steam supply and air conditioning - by 0.8%.

The volume of gross output of agriculture also increased to 681.1 billion tenge.

The volume index in the transport industry was 107.2% in January-July 2013.