Guangzhou's Seven Major Department Stores Are Making Millions Of Dollars.

Yesterday is the first day of the new year, and the shopping craze of "Guangzhou's happy New Year Shopping Carnival" swept through the whole city.

All home appliance stores and department stores are holding sales promotion activities. The joy brought by the new year and the temptation of "letting go" of the business make people unable to restrain their desire to shop.

Many shopping malls were blocked up. Traffic congestion occurred in lots of businesses such as ring road and Tianhe.

Yesterday, one day, shopping mall and department store in main business district of Tianhe City, Zheng Jia square, Beijing Road, Zhonghua square and so on were all crowded with people.

Take Zhonghua square as an example, it recorded more than 1 million passengers and the bag rate was nearly 80%.

Tianhe also has more than 530 thousand people, an increase of 10% over the same period last year.

Statistics show that yesterday, sales of seven major mainstream stores in Guang Bai, friendship stores, Tianhe City department store, Tianhe store, modern, new Daxin, Xinguang, Dongshan and other cities exceeded 100 million yuan, with a total sales volume of more than 104 million yuan, so that the retail industry of Guangzhou in the "cold current" really had a "fire."

The subway traffic volume exceeds 2 million 200 thousand passengers. Yesterday, the public exploded the Guangzhou subway, and the passengers at the subway station in front of the park were overcrowded. The on-site staff had to release in batches.

According to statistics, in December 31, 2008, the passenger volume of the four lines of the subway exceeded 2 million passengers, and the traffic volume exceeded 2 million 200 thousand passengers yesterday.

Reporter yesterday, at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon, taking the line two before getting off at the park stop and ready to pfer to line 1, it was discovered that because of the large number of passengers in front of the park, the two subway staff had to seal the passageway to the first line on the platform with the iron horse. They kept explaining to the passengers that there were too many passengers and needed to be released in batches.

The phenomenon of passenger exploding Guangzhou subway yesterday was more prominent in Sports West Road and Kecun.

According to the briefing, from yesterday, the Guangzhou metro line three has added a train of trains, making the interval between lines three compressed to 2 minutes and 51 seconds. It is the shortest driving distance in the history of Guangzhou subway, and the 991 trains running on the three line all day.

The Guangzhou Railway Station has already had a few days before the official start of the Spring Festival. But yesterday, the reporter saw in the Guangzhou Railway Station that the square and the ticket booth were full of people's heads. The passengers carrying big bags and baggage had already let the arrival of the Spring Festival ahead of time (such as the left picture, Hai Guo photo).

According to the latest statistics from Guangzhou Railway Station, 107270 passengers were sent to Guangzhou Railway Station yesterday.

Yesterday, reporters saw at the Guangzhou Railway Station East ticket office that passengers must be queued at the periphery when buying tickets. The entrance can only be released in batches. 7 square shelters have been built on the square in front of the ticket office to become the buffer zone before the ticket office.

The 30 meters ahead of the railway station did not seem like a group of waiting passengers in the past.

It's hard to walk further inside.

Reporter noted that the train passing through Guangzhou Railway Station was not affected by the cold weather in the north. The train running on the newly changed large display screen at the entrance and exit of the railway station was normal and there were few trains late.

The Ministry of Railways: in 2012, the elimination of "one vote is hard to find". According to Xinhua News Agency reporter 1, from the national railway working conference, according to the medium and long term railway network planning and the current speed of railway construction, technology and equipment modernization, by 2012, China's railway will undergo historic changes.

By then, a well-developed railway network has begun to take shape, and the bottleneck condition of railway has basically been eliminated.

The scale and quality of the road network will achieve significant strides.

By 2012, the national railway business mileage reached 110 thousand km, and the double line rate and electrification rate reached above 50% respectively.

More than 800 new railway passenger stations have been built, and a large number of modern integrated pport hub have been put into operation.

By 2012, more than 800 EMUs were put into operation, covering the entire fast passenger network.

Air conditioned passenger cars account for more than 66% of bus ownership.

The tension of pport capacity is basically eliminated.

By 2012, the passenger demand of China's railway passenger dedicated line coverage area was basically satisfied, and passenger traffic tensions in other areas were greatly alleviated.

The phenomenon of "one car is hard to find and one ticket is hard to find" has basically been eliminated, the quality of service has been greatly improved, and the support capacity of Railways for economic and social development has been significantly enhanced.

"The above goal is magnificent and can be achieved."

Liu Zhijun, Minister of Railways said.

Since the approval of the mid long term railway network plan by the State Council in 2004, the railway construction with unprecedented scale has been launched in an all-round way.

Up to now, the mileage of the new line has reached 30 thousand km, and 20 thousand km of new railway projects will start construction in 2009~2010.

"These projects, with a general construction period of 3~5 years, will be completed and put into operation by 2012."

Liu Zhijun said.

Shopping, "why can't you move?"

Yesterday afternoon, near the friendship shop around the City Road shop, many private car owners began to complain about traffic jams.

Similarly, the sound of "walking again" was heard in many shopping malls yesterday.

Yesterday afternoon, in the good Plaza and Tianhe City, reporters found that many shoppers were worried that they could not find the parking space.

Mr. Zhou from Panyu finally decided to park the car in a parking lot near Xian village.

Discount: fine to consumers, consumers are more assured. "Before the discount is not clear, now is good, all very clear."

The reporter has learned that during the new year's day, business sales have been included in the "Guangzhou happy New Year Shopping Carnival" campaign. During the month long sales promotion activities, the Department of trade and economic cooperation asked the mall not to say "full court discount". It is necessary to list the types of discount so that consumers can understand consumption.

On the first day of yesterday's new year's opening, business discount can be constantly refined, and many consumers have praised it.

Shopping malls: very prosperous sales of new year's day over the new year's surging shopping crowd, yesterday made Guangzhou's major shopping malls "a fire."

Reporters from the friendship, Guang Bai, Xinguang department stores and other shopping malls learned that the mainstream shopping mall yesterday achieved a "start" in 2009, sales doubled in this winter's weekend, some of which increased sales by three to 50% compared to Christmas.

Even compared with last year's new year's day, sales of mainstream businesses have generally increased.

Supermarket: big fight for annual sales cards, people queuing up checkout yesterday, the major supermarkets have played the "profit card", "let the profit" the most is the annual goods.

At the supermarket of Carrefour supermarket of Kang Wang Road, it was seen that all kinds of festival foods placed at the corner of supermarket entrance and staircase were dazzling, and all kinds of advertisements and promotions were full of "year flavor".

Interestingly, some supermarkets also produced a "street of wine" sign, which has more than twice as many alcoholic beverages as usual, from France's red wine valued at 2000 yuan to 10 yuan of domestic Erguotou.

Business street: the flow of people is like weaving and catching up with the Spring Festival flower market. "I think today is even more lively than the Spring Festival flower market!"

Yesterday, the city's two main pedestrian streets, Beijing road and up and down nine almost became the sea of people.

At 19 o'clock yesterday, at the entrance of Beijing Qing Road Palace Cinema, the people who queued up for tickets were up to 10 meters.

A barbecue stalls in Beijing road also discharged seven or eight meters long queue.

In the upper and lower nine pedestrian streets, people who are shopping are equally crowded.

Interestingly, due to overcrowding, the guides who sent out leaflets were squeezed into the public's hands.

Guangzhou's seven major department stores, new year's sales statistics, friendship store 20 million yuan, Guang Bai department store nearly 40 million yuan, Tianhe City Department Store (Tianhe City store) over 15 million yuan, modern department store 7 million 100 thousand yuan, new Daxin 8 million 800 thousand yuan, Xinguang department store 4 million 500 thousand yuan, East Dongshan Department Store 8 million 600 thousand yuan, tour Park, all the parks are hot, Hong Kong and Macao swim up, with the 2009 New Year bell rang at zero hour, new year's day three days holiday is officially kicked off.

Reporters patrol the city found that the city's major parks continue to be popular with the public, hot exception.

Reporters got the latest statistics last night, as of 6 p.m. yesterday, the city's major parks received 230 thousand tourists, of which the most popular Baiyun Mountain scenic area, a total of 60 thousand people mountaineering.

New year's day also ushered in the peak of the small golden week, because the time was too short, and more than 80% of the travelling public chose to swim in the province.

The number of visitors in Hong Kong and Macao increased significantly during the new year's day. During the new year's day, the hotel reservation in Hongkong was full. During the new year's day, there were a large number of shoppers who purchased new year's products and Taobao.

In 2009, Guangzhou, new year's day, ten thousand people walked on a healthy walk. Yesterday, the Yellow Dragon came to celebrate the Asian Games. "Ten thousand steps a day, the first step in health". On 2009, the first day of the new year's day, ten thousand people walked in Guangzhou on New Year's day. Yesterday morning, they started in the South Gate Square of Tianhe Sports Center in.

At 9:10, Xu Ruisheng, vice mayor of Guangzhou, announced that in 2009, ten thousand people started walking activities on Guangzhou New Year's day.

A large floatcar slowly leads the way. A uniform yellow long sleeved T-shirt is dressed in more than ten thousand citizens. It starts from the South Gate Square of Tianhe Sports Center, and forms a "Yellow Dragon" with a winding length of 4 kilometers by the Sports West Road, Tianhe North Road, sports east road and Tianhe road.

Many of the team members are not in the first year to take part in the walking activities. Many people join their families.

The theme of this year's event is "to welcome the Asian Games and create a new life".

Compared with previous years, this year's walking tour is more "lively and colorful". Along the way, it has arranged the national fitness exhibition and performance for the elderly waist drum team, the military band and the opening flower car, and the sports lottery equipment sponsored by the sponsor.

It is one of the traditional brand activities of Guangzhou's mass sports. It has a history of more than 20 years.