1 August China's social consumer goods sales increased 12.1%

Absrtact: At the Ministry of Commerce's routine press conference yesterday, the Ministry of Commerce spokesman Danyang introduced China's 1 August business operation. 1 August China's social consumer goods sales grew 12.1% year-on-year, the growth rate and the first 7 months flat, consumer market operation of the overall base

At the Ministry of Commerce's regular press conference yesterday, the Ministry of Commerce spokesman Danyang introduced our 1-August business operation. January-August China's social consumer goods sales growth of 12.1% year-on-year, the growth rate and the first 7 months flat, the overall consumer market operation is basically stable.

According to the National Bureau of Statistics, August the total retail sales of consumer goods 2.1134 trillion yuan, an increase of 11.9%, compared with the slowdown last month 0.3%, the real increase in price deduction 10.6%, faster than the last month 0.1%.

Among them, network retail maintain exuberant, August quota above unit net sales growth 53% Year-on-year, faster than last month 3.4%. 5,000 of the Ministry of Commerce monitoring of key retail companies, the August year-on-year growth in online shopping 31.9%, professional stores, department stores and supermarket sales growth of 3.6%, 4.4% and 7% respectively, compared with the same period a year ago slowed 4.9, 6.5 and 2.6%.

In addition, communication equipment sales accelerated. In the 4G network construction and accelerated new product updates led by the rapid growth of communications equipment sales. According to statistics from the National Bureau of Statistics, sales of telecommunications equipment in August above the quota increased by 31.8%, the growth rate was 7.6% faster than July, and 15.8% faster than a year earlier.