China News Service Client, April 17 (Xie Yiguan) According to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics on the 17th, total retail sales of consumer goods in the first quarter were 785.8 billion yuan, down 19% year-on-year. Among them, the total retail sales of consumer goods in March was 264.5 billion yuan, a decrease of 15.8%, a decrease of 4.7 percentage points from January to February; the retail sales of commodities decreased by 12.0%, a decrease of 5.6 percentage points from January to February.