China Spring Festival consumer goods retail sales 340 billion yuan

BEIJING, February 19 Xinhua reporter learned today from the Ministry of Commerce, the Spring Festival Golden Week, the National consumer goods market prosperity, rapid sales growth, the overall price of daily necessities stable.　　According to the Ministry of Commerce monitoring, the annual Eve to the first month arrest, the National consumer goods sales 340 billion yuan, compared to the golden week of last year's Spring festival Rose 17.2%. --the promotion activity is splendid, the market sale grows rapidly. During the Spring Festival, various promotional activities such as shopping festival, New Year exhibition, Food festival and so on are carefully organized to expand the holiday consumption.　　During the Golden Week, Yunnan, Chongqing and Heilongjiang focused on monitoring retail sales growth of 34.5%, 25.1% and 23.6% respectively Year-on-year, Liaoning, Anhui, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Henan, Jiangsu and other areas have increased by more than 20%. --Traditional spring Festival sales hot, communications equipment, gold and silver jewelry, clothing, home appliances selling. The Ministry of Commerce focused on monitoring retail business sales of food, tobacco and alcohol year-on-year growth of 16.5% and 13.2% respectively. Sales of communications equipment increased 19.2%, of which Jilin grew 2.6 times times, and Henan grew 35.3%. 3G mobile phones have become a hot spot in the market, and individual models have been sold off. Gold and silver jewelry sales growth of 19.1%, the tiger zodiac ornaments, the World Expo commemorative gold bars and so on especially favored. Clothing, shoes and hats year-on-year growth of 17.7% and 14.6% respectively, Tiger-head shoes, tiger-head caps and other tiger-shaped costumes are very popular.　　Household appliances sales increased 15.4% year-on-year, LCD TVs, energy-saving refrigerators, small kitchen appliances, such as sales especially hot. --the catering market ushered in a start, the old, special catering popular. Beijing Quan Ju de launched the "Auspicious Tiger to send Blessing", "Tiger Lunar New Year", "Auspicious tiger Spring" and so on "tiger flavor" full of the spring Feast package, the introduction of the New Year's Gift banquet, New Year feast, family banquet features theme feast, consumers flock to. Hebei part of the catering enterprises to implement the wrong period of dinner reservation.　　During the spring Festival, Anhui province focused on monitoring and catering business turnover increased 48.3%, Liaoning grew 21.4%, Jiangxi, Shandong, Chongqing increased more than 18%. During the Spring Festival, popular in parks, libraries, museums, gymnasiums, cinemas, farm houses, etc. Beijing Temple of Heaven, the Summer Palace, Beihai Park and other major park visitors such as weaving, Xiangshan Park launched the "Ascended blessing will" attract tourists tens of thousands of people. The Qingdao Library is open every day during the spring Festival, with more than 3,000 people who come to study, listen to lectures and participate in the activities.　　All over Hubei farmers happy business, only Suizhou farm happy one day to receive more than 700 visitors. --The necessities market is abundant and the price is stable. All parts of the market supply of daily necessities, food, edible oil prices are basically stable, meat, vegetable prices have risen, poultry, egg prices fell slightly. In particular, grain and oil prices remain stable, 36 large and medium-sized cities small packaged rice, small packaged flour, peanut oil average prices are the same as the previous week, soybean oil prices fell 0.1%, rapeseed oil prices rose 0.1%. Meat prices rose slightly, with pork pricesLattice Rose 0.5%. Vegetable prices rose and the average price of 18 main vegetables rose by 1.8% per cent before the festival.