At the press conference held today (26th) to ensure market supply on the National Day holiday and promote the release of consumption potential, the relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Commerce stated that: efforts will be made to improve the quality of life of residents, expand the scale of urban consumption, and promote the upgrading of urban consumption.

  To create a quarter of an hour convenient living circle in the city, the focus is on facing the community, facilitating consumption, and serving the daily lives of the residents.

  Yin Hong, Deputy Director of the Circulation Development Department of the Ministry of Commerce: Improve and optimize the network layout of community commerce, and build a batch of convenient living circles with complete business formats, complete functions, and smart convenience in accordance with the working principle of "what is missing" to open up consumer consumption The “last mile” of the city has continuously improved the level of convenience, intelligence and quality of residents’ daily lives.

  At the same time, develop characteristic neighborhoods, characteristic business districts, and cultivate carriers for consumption upgrades.

From January to August this year, the passenger flow and turnover of the 23 pilot pedestrian streets increased by more than 40% year-on-year.

In the next step, the business structure will be optimized to promote brand agglomeration to better meet individualized and diversified consumer needs.

  In addition, it will further improve the policies and measures for the development of time-honored brands, continue to stimulate the vitality of time-honored brands' innovation, and introduce new products, new services and new scenes that are richer in fashion elements and meet the needs of the national tide.

(Headquarters reporter Liu Ying, Xu Ningning, Zhu Jinsong, Xiong Wei)