Chinese New Year Gold week retail sales increase 17.2%

BEIJING, February 19, reporter Li Yanyang from the Ministry of Commerce learned: 2010 Golden Week of Spring Festival, the national consumer goods market flourished, the overall price of living 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 last year's Golden Week (same below) growth of 17.2%. The consumer market presents the following characteristics: ———— Promotional activities Brilliant, rapid growth of market sales. During the Spring festival, around the consumption hotspots, carefully organize various promotional activities, and actively expand the holiday consumption.　　The Ministry of Commerce monitoring showed that Yunnan, Chongqing, 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. Food, tobacco, wine, firecrackers and other traditional spring festival sales, communications equipment, gold and silver jewelry, clothing, home appliances and other commodity sales also showed rapid growth. 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 by 19.2%. Sales of gold, silver and jewellery rose 19.1%. Sales of clothing, shoes and hats rose 17.7% and 14.6% respectively.　　Household appliance sales rose 15.4% year-on-year. ———— Catering Market ushered in a start, the old, special catering popular.　　All over the food market is booming, old restaurant, characteristic theme catering business is booming. ———— rich and colorful sports and recreational activities.　　All over the park, library, gymnasium, cinemas and other places popular, leisure New Year has become a trend. ———— necessities of life market supply is adequate, the overall price is stable. 36 Large and medium-sized cities small packaged rice, small packaged flour, peanut oil average prices are the same as the week before the Spring Festival. Meat prices rose slightly. Poultry and egg prices fell slightly. The average price of 18 main vegetables rose by 1.8% per cent before the festival.