News from the National Bureau of Statistics showed that in August, the country’s total retail sales of consumer goods was 3,439.5 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 2.5% and an increase of 3.0% over August 2019. From January to August, the total retail sales of consumer goods was 28,122.4 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 18.1%, and an increase of 8.0% from January to August 2019.
According to consumption type, in August, retail sales of goods were 3.0939 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 3.3%. From January to August, retail sales of goods were 25.2305 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 16.5%. In August, the retail sales of clothing, shoes, hats, and needlework textiles were 90 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 6.0%; from January to August, the retail sales of clothing, shoes, hats, and needlework textiles were 856.5 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 24.8%.
From January to August, national online retail sales were 8,122.7 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 19.7%. Among them, the online retail sales of physical goods were 6.634 billion yuan, an increase of 15.9%, accounting for 23.6% of the total retail sales of consumer goods; among the online retail sales of physical goods, food, clothing and household goods increased by 22.4% and 19.4% respectively. and 14.2%.
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