Spring Festival Golden Week National consumer goods retail sales 340 billion yuan

Spring Festival Gold Week consumption year-on-year growth of 17% tourism consumption to achieve strong growth road waterway passenger traffic increase 10% railway return passenger flow peak this newspaper February 19 Xinhua news reporter learned from the Ministry of Commerce today: the Spring Festival Golden Week, the National consumer goods market boom, rapid sales growth, daily necessities prices overall 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%. Promotional activities are brilliant, the rapid growth of market sales. 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%. During the Spring Festival, all over the parks, libraries, museums, gymnasiums, cinemas, farm music and other places popular, leisure New Year has become a trend.　　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 market for necessaries of life is plentiful and the prices are generally stable.　　All over the food, edible oil prices are basically stable, meat, vegetable prices rose, poultry, egg prices fell slightly.　　BEIJING, February 19 (Xinhua) today is the last day of the Golden Week of the spring festival, according to the national holiday Office issued a travel information bulletin shows that the Golden Week of the Spring Festival is over smoothly, tourists return, no large-scale tourists stranded phenomenon. Tourism consumption has grown strongly. Information shows that the total number of holiday tourism reception in the Spring festival throughout the year than last year to maintain growth, tourism consumption has risen sharply. Spring Festival 7 days, the total number of Beijing tourism reached 7.65 million people, an increase of 5.1%, tourism total income of 2.92 billion yuan, an increase of 11.8%, Tianjin tourism reception 3.559 million, the income of 2.72 billion yuan, the year-on-year increase of 13.1%. In addition, the folk theme is more prominent, the travel itinerary is more convenient, the tourist hotspot has expanded.　　This year, the traditional "one South one North" two hot spots more prosperous. BEIJING, February 19, Xinhua reporter 19th from the Ministry of Transport learned: February 19, the national road and waterway passenger flow reached the peak after the completion of 62.3 million times.　　During the 7-day holiday this year, the national average daily investment of large and medium-sized buses 760,000 vehicles, the daily average sent 2.1 million, the cumulative completion of 273 million passenger traffic, compared to last year's Spring festival during the long holiday period of 10.5% growth.　　The total number of water passenger transport completed 6.54 million times, an increase of 2%, the national total investment of 20,000 passenger ships, 80多万个, to ensure the safety of waterway transport, adequate passenger transport capacity. In addition, the reporter also learned from the Ministry of Transport, Maritime search and Rescue Center, during the Spring Festival, the Ministry of Transport with the Navy completed 2 batches of the Gulf of Aden Somalia Sea convoy mission to 30 ships to provide escort services. As of 19th 12 o'clock, a total of successfully completed convoy Mission 169 batches, for1585 ships implement escort.　　BEIJING, February 19, February 18, the Railway Spring Festival after the peak return passenger flow as scheduled, the day of the national railway to send passengers 5.437 million people, compared to the previous daily increase of 659,000 people, an increase of 605,000 people, increased by 12.5%. Many distant travelers leave return to make the railway long-distance passenger traffic increase obviously. At present, the national Railway transportation production safety, stable operation, passenger waiting, purchase tickets, ride down a smooth and orderly, all stations have no backlog of passenger flow.