Sales Of Shoes, Hats And Needles Increased By 8.4% In 1-2.

The National Bureau of statistics released the retail sales data of consumer goods in the first two months of 2016.

In the 1-2 month of 2016, the total retail sales of consumer goods in China amounted to 52910 billion yuan, up 10.2% from nominal growth (9.6% below the price factor).

Among them, the retail sales of consumer goods above the quota reached 23080 billion yuan, an increase of 7.6%.

In 2016 1-2, the retail sales volume of the whole country was 636 billion 100 million yuan, an increase of 27.2% over the same period last year.

Among them, online retail sales of physical commodities increased by 505 billion 300 million yuan, an increase of 25.4%, accounting for 9.5% of the total retail sales of social consumer goods, and 37%, 14.2% and 29.6% of consumption, wear and use of commodities in online retail sales respectively.

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Sales increased by 8.4% to 245 billion 100 million yuan, down from 9.8% in 2015, cosmetics sales increased by 11.4% to 35 billion 600 million yuan, and sales of gold, silver and jewellery dropped 1.5% to 54 billion 100 million yuan.

Although 1-2 months, the total retail sales of online goods increased by 25.4% over the same period last year, which is 15.2 percentage points higher than the total retail sales of social consumer goods. However, the sales growth rate of online "wear" category is far lower than that of the overall online consumer goods sales, which shows the weakness of the clothing market.

According to Lin Tao, Senior Statistician of the Trade Statistics Department of the National Bureau of statistics, the total retail sales of consumer goods increased by 10.2% compared with the same period last year, while the number of retail sales increased by two percentage points, while the growth rate dropped 0.5 percentage points over the same period last year. However, the rate of decline was narrowed significantly (1-2 months in 2015, 1.1 percentage points lower than the same period in 2014).

From the annulus, the total retail sales of consumer goods in the 1 and February were 0.83% and 0.81%, respectively.