National Bureau of Statistics of China: Total Retail Sales of Consumer Goods in

Source from the website of the National Bureau of Statistics of China in November, total retail sales of consumer goods stood at RMB979.08b, up by 20.8% year-on-year.

In terms of regions, retail sales of urban consumer goods amounted to RMB652.80b, up by 20.3% year-on-year; retail sales at or below the country level RMB326.28b, up by 21.8%.

From the industries, retail sales of the wholesale and retail industry reached RMB822.62b, up by 20.6% year-on-year; retail sales of accommodation and catering industries RMB137.66b, up by 25.1%; retail sales of other industries RMB18.80b, up by 3.0%.

From the categories of commodities, retail sales of categories of commodities for eating, wearing and using in the wholesale and retail industry above norm increased 13.8%, 24.1% and 12.5% respectively. Among them, grain and oil categories increased 5.9%, meat poultry and egg categories 13.9%, clothes category 25.4%, cultural office category 12.7%, physical education and entertainment category 4.6%, daily commodity category 11.1%, home appliance and audio and visual material category 7.5%, furniture category 15.7%, cosmetics category 16.3%, gold, silver and jewelry category 31.1%, automobile category 7.7%, oil and its manufacture 21.2%, while building and decoration materials category declined 32.6% and communication equipment category 4.8%.

From January to November, the accumulative total sales of consumer goods stood at RMB9.77592t, up by 21.9% year-on-year.