National online retail sales in the first three quarters increased by 9.7% year-on-year
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 29 (Reporters Wang Yuxiao and Yu Jiaxin) Gao Feng, spokesperson of the Ministry of Commerce, introduced on the 29th that the national online retail sales in the first three quarters exceeded 8 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 9.7%. Online retail of physical goods The amount reached 6.6 trillion yuan, an increase of 15.3% year-on-year.
Gao Feng stated at a regular online press conference held by the Ministry of Commerce that day that online retail is accelerating the digital transformation of market players, spawning new business formats and models, improving the efficiency of the industrial chain, supply chain, and value chain, and fostering new momentum for the digital economy.
Gao Feng said that overall, my country's online retail market showed the following characteristics in the first three quarters:
New hot spots for online consumption continue to emerge.
Healthy consumption and green consumption have become new trends in online consumption.
New models that combine entertainment and consumption, such as live e-commerce and content e-commerce, are favored by consumers.
E-commerce accelerates the digital development of the industry.
Through the "C2M" model, large-scale e-commerce companies use online data, technology, and creativity to feed back physical companies to create "intelligent manufacturing platforms" to promote innovation, reduce costs, and make up for shortcomings.
Rural e-commerce maintains a good momentum of development.
According to business big data monitoring, in the first three quarters of this year, the national rural online retail sales were 1.2 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 7.8%; the national agricultural product online retail sales were 288.41 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 34.3%.
Cross-border e-commerce promotes the quality and upgrade of foreign trade.
Driven by policies such as the “capacity expansion” of the cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zone and the pilot B2B export supervision of cross-border e-commerce, cross-border e-commerce maintained a good growth momentum.
Business big data monitoring of key e-commerce retail import platforms shows that cross-border e-commerce retail imports have increased by more than 17% year-on-year.
Consumption of online services is picking up faster.
Business big data monitoring shows that online catering online retail sales in the third quarter increased by nearly 10% year-on-year, and online travel online retail sales increased from negative to positive.