Chinanews client, August 14 (Li Jinlei) On August 14, the National Bureau of Statistics released China's economic data for July. Market sales continued to pick up, and the monthly growth rate of commodity retail sales turned from negative to positive. In July, the total retail sales of consumer goods was 3.220.3 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 1.1%, and the rate of decline narrowed by 0.7 percentage points from June. In terms of consumption types, catering revenue was 328.2 billion yuan, a decrease of 11.0%; retail sales of goods was 289.2 billion yuan, and the growth rate changed from negative to positive for the first time in the year, increasing by 0.2%.