Ministry Of Commerce: In 2013, The Growth Rate Of Nationwide Online Shopping Sales Exceeded That Of Physical Stores 20%

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< p > recently, the "a href=" http://sjfzxm.com/news/index_s.asp "commerce department" /a "held a regular press conference to announce the 2013 annual economic development data. The data show that < a href=" http://sjfzxm.com/news/index_s.asp "> online shopping sales" /a "growth rate is 20 percentage points higher than that of physical stores.

In addition, the total import and export volume of the country has exceeded 4 trillion US dollars for the first time.

In the 3000 key retail enterprises monitored by the Ministry of Commerce, online shopping sales increased by 31.9%, and the growth rates were 21.6, 23.6 and 24.4 percentage points higher than that of department stores, supermarkets and professional stores respectively.

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< p > 2013, the national consumer price level rose 2.6%, unchanged from the previous year.

Consumption of household appliances, furniture, construction and decoration materials has been steadily warming, and consumer goods such as gold, silver and jewellery have increased by more than 20%.

The central region, with its annual sales growth of 11.6%, is ahead of East, West and Northeast China, becoming the fastest growing area of consumption in the country.

In 2013, China's total import and export volume exceeded US $4 trillion for the first time, of which the growth rate of foreign trade in the central region increased by 13.6%, double the growth rate in the eastern region, and Hubei's year-on-year growth rate reached 17.7%, exceeding the national average level.

The export of electromechanical products, textiles, < a href= "http://sjfzxm.com/news/index_s.asp" > clothing > /a, footwear, toys and other labor-intensive products increased steadily, and the growth rate of processing trade slowed down.

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In the last year, the domestic investors made direct investment in 156 countries and regions in the world. China's investment in Hongkong, ASEAN, the EU, Australia, the United States, Russia and Japan accounted for 72.6% of China's total foreign investment in the same period, of which China's investment in Hongkong, the European Union and Japan has declined, and the others have increased rapidly, and the investment to Russia has increased by more than 5 times over the same period.

From the perspective of industry composition, 90% of the investment flows to business services, mining, wholesale and retail, manufacturing, construction and pportation.

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< p > Shen Danyang, spokesman of the Ministry of Commerce, said that in 2013, China's "a href=" http://sjfzxm.com/news/index_s.asp "trade friction" < /a > the situation has not slowed down, and has been the most frequently encountered anti-dumping investigation for 18 years in a row.

In regard to the problem of "a href=" http://sjfzxm.com/news/index_s.asp "/a" and its impact on foreign trade, Shen Danyang said: "in view of the pressure and difficulties caused by the appreciation of the RMB exchange rate to the enterprises, the Ministry of Commerce will try every possible way to help enterprises solve all the difficulties they face."

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< p > data show that "in the first three quarters of last year, Beijing's online retail business exceeded the traditional department stores for the first time, and became the main force to stimulate Beijing's consumption growth."

Lu Yan, director of the Beijing Municipal Commission of Commerce, revealed that over the past 1-10 months, the wholesale and retail enterprises above Designated Size in Beijing achieved 71 billion 660 million yuan in online retail sales, an increase of 44.9% over the previous year, accounting for 10.5% of the total retail sales of social consumer goods in the City, which has exceeded the traditional department store industry, stimulating the retail sales of consumer goods in the city to grow 3.6 percentage points.

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< p > by the impact of the electricity supplier, physical retail has gone to the crossroads of change.

The data show that in 2012, 81 large and medium sized department stores, a href= "http://sjfzxm.com/news/index_s.asp" > retail < /a >, had a total sales volume of 228 billion 270 million yuan, an increase of 8.92% over the same period last year, a marked decline compared with the average annual growth rate of 16.5% in the Department store industry in 2011.

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