Industry sectors

The consumer market started to stabilize this year

Source:         Date：2019-03-18 08:49:39

According to the National Bureau of Statistics, according to the National Bureau of Statistics, the total retail sales of consumer goods in the country from January to February reached 6.6 trillion yuan, an increase of 8.2% year-on-year, which was the same as that of December of last year. After deducting the price factor, the actual increase was 7.1%. In December, it accelerated by 0.5 percentage points. From a ring comparison, the total retail sales of consumer goods in February increased by 0.81% from January.


The person in charge said that the consumer market in January-February mainly showed the following characteristics: service consumption showed a strong momentum. Around the Spring Festival, the consumption of New Year's Eve, reunion dinner, family and friends, etc. continued to be hot. From January to February, the national catering revenue was 725.1 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 9.7%, which was higher than the retail sales growth rate of 1.7 percentage points. According to the National Tourism Research Institute, the total number of national tourist receptions during the Spring Festival Golden Week exceeded 400 million, a year-on-year increase of 7.6%, and tourism revenue reached 513.9 billion. Yuan, an increase of 8.3%. In addition, entertainment consumption and information consumption grew rapidly. During the Spring Festival Golden Week, the national movie box office reached 5.84 billion yuan, a record high; the national mobile Internet traffic increased by 130%.


Online sales of physical goods grew rapidly. From January to February, the online retail sales of physical goods in China reached 1,090.1 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 19.5%, which was 11.3 percentage points higher than the total retail sales of consumer goods, accounting for 16.5% of the total retail sales of consumer goods, an increase of 1.6 percentage points over the same period of the previous year. According to the statistics of the State Post Bureau, during the Spring Festival period (January 21 to February 10), the national postal industry delivery service business increased by 35% over the same period of the previous year.


The growth of consumption of cultural office supplies, communication equipment, cosmetics and gold, silver and jewellery has accelerated. From January to February, the sales of communication equipment, cultural office supplies, cosmetics, gold and silver jewellery above designated size increased by 8.8%, 8.2%, 8.9% and 4.4% respectively, which was 12.8, 9.7, 7 and 2.1 percentage points higher than the same period of the previous year. .


Consumer prices rose modestly. From January to February, consumer prices rose by 1.6% year-on-year, and the growth rate narrowed by 0.6 percentage points from the same period of the previous year. According to the monitoring of the Ministry of Commerce, the prices of edible agricultural products in 36 large and medium-sized cities in January-February fell 0.8% year-on-year, and fell 1.8% year-on-year in February, ending the year-on-year upward trend for 8 consecutive months.