China News Service, April 25, Cai Yudong, deputy director of the e-commerce department of the Ministry of Commerce, said on the 25th that the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the State Post Bureau, and the China Consumers Association will hold the "Double Product Online Shopping Festival", officially opened on April 28, continuing Until May 10. More than 109 platforms and enterprises participated in this event. In addition to integrated e-commerce, vertical e-commerce and service e-commerce are actively participating, so that merchants severely affected by the epidemic can recover their vitality as soon as possible.
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The joint defense and joint control mechanism of the State Council held a press conference on the 25th to introduce the e-commerce promotion of consumption and the promotion of economic upgrading. Regarding how the Ministry of Commerce promotes online consumption and how effective it is currently, Cai Yudong pointed out that during the epidemic, e-commerce did play a unique and important role, which is of great significance for maintaining stable and healthy economic and social development. The Ministry of Commerce resolutely implements the decision-making and deployment of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, promotes epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development as a whole, strengthens departmental coordination, and government-enterprise linkage, fully exerts the advantages of e-commerce, and promotes the supplement of consumption and the release of potential.
The first aspect is to actively promote the resumption of business, production and business resumption of the enterprise, and to closely contact with various household electrical appliance companies to coordinate their actual difficulties in time. We will also promote the coordinated development of e-commerce and express logistics with the State Post Bureau, and also guide the national e-commerce professional and technical personnel continuing education base to carry out more than 12,000 professional trainings. According to the statistics of business big data on 3.5 million merchants on the platform, the resumption rate is now nearly 90%.
The second aspect is to actively find ways to activate the consumer market and guide localities to carry out a series of online promotional activities according to local conditions. According to data from the National Bureau of Statistics, the scale of online retail sales in the first quarter was basically the same as last year, and the online retail sales of physical goods increased by 5.9%, which shows that the role of online retail in promoting consumption has been further improved. As China's epidemic prevention and control work is further consolidated, and various policies are continuously introduced, Cai Yudong expressed his confidence in the next step of consumption.
According to Cai Yudong, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the State Post Bureau, and the China Consumers Association will soon hold the "Double Product Online Shopping Festival", which will officially open on April 28 and will last until May 10. In this event, more than 109 platforms and enterprises participated. In addition to integrated e-commerce, vertical e-commerce and service e-commerce are actively participating, and strive to push high-quality, beautiful products and services to consumers.
Cai Yudong said that there are "small and beautiful" online brands on the shopping festival, as well as the old Chinese brand, as well as "three products and one standard" certified agricultural products, as well as high-quality home appliances, and energy-saving and environmentally friendly products. There are also various preferential activities for promotion, not routine consumption, but real benefits and concessions for consumers. I hope that not only do things sell well, but also services. In this event, there are also catering and tourism e-commerce active participation, which is to allow these merchants severely affected by the epidemic to recover their vitality as soon as possible. At the same time, foreign trade production enterprises are also included in this event, and officials of the embassies of the "Silk Road E-commerce" partner countries in China will also participate in the promotion.