Chinanews.com client July 16 (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 nation’s online retail sales in the first half of the year were 5,151.5 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 7.3%, an increase from January to May 2.8 percentage points. Among them, the online retail sales of physical commodities was 4,348.1 billion yuan, an increase of 14.3%, accounting for 25.2% of the total retail sales of consumer goods, an increase of 1.6 percentage points from the first quarter; of the online retail sales of physical commodities, food and consumer goods increased respectively 38.8% and 17.3%, and wearing goods dropped by 2.9%.