The 2nd "Double Product Online Shopping Festival" achieved sales of 182.5 billion yuan
Newspaper Beijing, May 14 (Reporter Wang Ke) At the online press conference held by the Ministry of Commerce on the 14th, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Commerce, Gao Feng, introduced the second session from April 28 to May 10. During the "Shuangpin Online Shopping Festival", there were 115 e-commerce companies, over 100,000 brands, and over one million online stores, with a total sales of 182.51 billion yuan. During the same period, the nationwide online retail sales exceeded 430 billion yuan, an increase of 20.8% year-on-year, of which physical commodity online retail sales exceeded 380 billion yuan, an increase of 33.3% year-on-year.
New hot spots are constantly emerging. During the event, sales of somatosensory game consoles increased by 13 times year-on-year, energy-saving appliances doubled, sales of massage chairs and rowing machines doubled, and smart products and green food increased by more than 20%. For example, on an e-commerce platform in China, sales of smart digital products increased by 113%, and sales of 5G mobile phones increased by 90%.
Actively ease the pressure on export sales. E-commerce platforms have set up special zones and special sessions for export-to-domestic product sales to help foreign trade companies hedge against the decline in external demand. Nearly 10,000 foreign trade companies have settled on the e-commerce platform, and some companies sold 16,000 orders a day. Compared with before the event, the average daily sales volume increased by 300%.
Poverty alleviation and agricultural assistance promote the two-way circulation between urban and rural areas. During the event, the national rural online retail sales increased by 40% year-on-year, of which the national-level poverty-stricken county online retail sales increased by more than 50%; The growth is over 70%.