In the Spring Festival of the Year of the Ox, my country's consumption has achieved a good start.
Online shopping for New Year's goods is popular, offline consumption continues to be hot, online and offline integration is accelerating, and new trends in customized, intelligent, and quality consumption have emerged, stimulating booming market potential.
821 billion yuan!
This is the sales achieved by key national retail and catering companies during the Spring Festival, an increase of 28.7% over the same period last year.
480 million pieces!
This is the number of parcels collected across the country six days before the Spring Festival. This number is three times that of the same period last year.
Six days before the Spring Festival, national online retail sales exceeded 120 billion yuan.
Online consumption is growing rapidly, and offline consumption is booming.
During the Spring Festival, my country's consumer market is full of vigor and vitality.
Traditional products such as gift boxes, home appliances, fitness equipment, etc. were sold well. Among them, jewelry, clothing, shoes and hats, and cosmetics all increased by more than 100%.
The sales of seasonal products such as flowers, green plants, and gold ornaments have soared.
Ye Bin, manager of China Gold’s flagship store in Beijing: The
traffic is very large, and it should have doubled from last year. People may be more concerned about the products of the Year of the Ox.
From the increase in quantity to the improvement in quality, this Spring Festival, the people's consumption list is also richer, and quality consumption has become fashionable.
During the Spring Festival, sales of automotive products, high-end daily necessities, and pet products have doubled; orders for cleaning, repairing, and renewal services for home appliances, digital communications equipment, and mobile phones have increased by about 30%.
Residents of Pingxiang, Jiangxi:
Like before, during the Chinese New Year, the main thing to buy is food and drink. Now the quality of life has improved and I also want to buy some smart products.
From buying goods to buying services, during the Spring Festival, service consumption also showed explosive growth, driving the rapid recovery of catering, entertainment, hotel and other industries.
Millions of merchants do not close their food delivery during holidays. Online catering sales increased by 135% over the same period last year. Sales of New Year’s Eve dinner series products increased by 54.9% over the same period last year.
Under the initiative of local Chinese New Year, local tourism in the city continued to heat up during the Spring Festival, which also gave birth to a new phenomenon of "home tourism", and hotels have also become check-in scenic spots.
Eating a New Year’s Eve dinner in a hotel, or staying in a homestay with friends three to five, has become a way for many people to celebrate the Spring Festival.
Residents of Suzhou, Jiangsu:
At home, it feels like being at home. Even though you are on the edge of your hometown, you still feel like you are on vacation.
At the same time, the local Chinese New Year has also activated the cultural consumption market.
During the Spring Festival, the national movie box office exceeded 7.5 billion yuan.
Online cultural activities such as cloud events, cloud tourism, and cloud flower market have enriched the people's holiday leisure needs.
Shanghai has opened up online and offline platforms, integrated hundreds of micro-tourism routes, more than 100 theatrical performances and art exhibitions, and provided citizens with a variety of cultural products; Beijing, Shenzhen, Hubei, Zhejiang and other places are doing a good job in the prevention and control of the epidemic. Open parks and museums for free, and appointments are hot.
Tourists from Ningbo, Zhejiang:
Take her to visit these revolutionary base areas and let her know a lot of history. This is also a good experience for her growing up.
The popularity of the consumer market during the Spring Festival holiday also reflects the vitality and potential of China's economy.
The continuous release of consumption potential has laid a solid foundation for my country to build a new development pattern in which domestic and international cycles are the mainstay and the domestic and international dual cycles promote each other.
Gu Xueming, Dean of the Institute of International Trade and Economic Cooperation of the Ministry of Commerce: The
Chinese New Year consumption has achieved a "good start", reflecting the great potential of China to promote consumption, the expansion of domestic demand, the strong momentum of high-quality economic development, and the smooth and efficient domestic cycle.
The huge domestic market and the constantly upgrading consumption structure are precisely where the potential, vitality and advantages of China's economic development lie, and are important supports for building a new development pattern.