Data Analysis: Beijing Achieved 257.69 Billion Yuan Of Online Retail Sales, With A Year-On-Year Increase Of 26.8%

It is reported that the Beijing Municipal Bureau of statistics and the Beijing survey team of the National Bureau of Statistics recently released the "economic operation of Beijing from January to August.". From January to August, the city's total retail sales of consumer goods reached 815.04 billion yuan, down 14.1% and 1.5 percentage points. Among them, online retailing continued to speed up, and the wholesale and retail industry above the quota, accommodation and catering industry realized online retail sales of 257.69 billion yuan, an increase of 26.8%.

Overall, from January to August, the city's total market consumption decreased by 11.3% year-on-year, 0.7% lower than that from January to July; among them, service consumption decreased by 8.8%, 0.1 percentage point, and the total retail sales of consumer goods reached 815.04 billion yuan, down 14.1% and 1.5 percentage points.

In terms of commodity categories, the retail sales of communication equipment, sports and entertainment products and cereals, Oils and foodstuffs increased by 41.6%, 20.4% and 10.2% respectively.

It is understood that the National Bureau of Statistics recently disclosed that from January to August, the national online retail sales amounted to 70326 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 9.5%, 0.5 percentage points higher than that of January July.

Among them, the online retail sales of physical goods reached 5865.1 billion yuan, an increase of 15.8%, accounting for 24.6% of the total retail sales of social consumer goods; among the online retail sales of physical goods, the sales of food, clothing and consumer goods increased by 35.4%, 1.1% and 18.3% respectively.