The National Bureau of Statistics released China ’s economic data for April on May 15 and market sales have picked up. In April, the total retail sales of consumer goods was 2,871.8 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 7.5%, a decrease of 8.3 percentage points from March; a month-on-month increase of 0.32% . From January to April, the national online retail sales amounted to 3.0698 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 1.7%. (Editing Zhou Jing)

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