Chinanews.com client July 16th (Wu Tao) On the 16th, China’s economic data for the first half of the year released by the National Bureau of Statistics showed that the total retail sales of consumer goods in the first half of the year was 172.256 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 11.4%, and the decline was narrower than the first quarter by 7.6 Percentage points; of which, the second quarter fell by 3.9%, narrowing 15.1 percentage points from the first quarter. In terms of consumption type, catering revenue was 1,460.9 billion yuan, a decrease of 32.8%; retail sales of goods was 15,764.8 billion yuan, a decrease of 8.7%. The nation's online retail sales were 5,151.5 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 7.3%, and a decrease of 0.8% in the first quarter.