China News Service, May 7 (Xinhua) At a routine online press conference held by the Ministry of Commerce on the 7th, a spokesman for Gao Feng introduced that during the "May Day" national market sentiment rebounded significantly and consumption showed a positive recovery. From May 1st to May 5th, the average daily sales of retail enterprises under key monitoring of the Ministry of Commerce increased by 32.1% compared with the Qingming holiday and decreased by 6.7% year-on-year. Mainly present the following characteristics:
First, the promotion and elimination activities are rich and diverse. All localities have fully implemented the epidemic prevention and control work during the "May Day". Through various shopping promotion activities such as shopping festivals, consumer coupons, profit promotion, online live broadcasts, and other consumer promotion activities, efforts have been made to gather market popularity. The “May 5th Shopping Festival” in Shanghai launched a large-scale consumption promotion activity, focusing on monitoring the increase of 68.5% in passenger traffic in the business district.
Second, online sales are growing rapidly. More than 100 household electrical appliance companies across the country actively participated in the second “Double Product Online Shopping Festival” organized by the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the State Post Bureau. Sales of some large-scale e-commerce companies during the “May Day” period increased by more than 30% year-on-year.
Third, the sales of commodities rebounded quickly. During the "May Day", the Ministry of Commerce focused on monitoring retail entrepreneurs' average daily sales of electricity, daily necessities, cosmetics, and apparel increased by 71.1%, 53.7%, 38.8%, and 31.2% respectively over the Qingming holiday.
Fourth, the catering and accommodation industry has gradually recovered. It is understood that during the "May Day" period, the consumption recovery index of the national catering and accommodation industries increased by 18.84 and 15.25 percentage points respectively over the Qingming holiday, and the consumption scale has recovered to 70% in the same period last year, an increase of about 20% over the Qingming holiday.
Fifth, the daily necessities market is running smoothly. The daily wholesale prices of japonica rice, flour, and edible oil fell by 0.2%, 0.2%, and 0.1% respectively from the week before the holiday; the prices of pork and beef fell by 1.3% and 0.2%, and the price of lamb rose by 0.3%. ; The price of white striped chicken and eggs decreased by 1.0% and 1.1% respectively; the average wholesale price of 30 kinds of vegetables decreased by 2.8%.