SPRING FESTIVAL GOLDEN WEEK

Perhaps unsurprisingly, entertainment and food were the priorities for Wuhan consumers during the Spring Festival holiday. With big discounts on offer, shopping centres in the city registered a slight increase in turnover compared with the same period last year. More

According to a Beijing Municipal Statistics Bureau survey of local urban and rural residents, traditional spending patterns dominated at this year’s Spring Festival. Conventional business models, however, suffered as consumers funneled much of their spending through e-commerce. More

In Nanjing, retail sales of consumer goods during the 2016 Spring Festival were worth a total of Rmb2.38 billion, an increase of 9.6% year-on-year, according to the city’s Bureau of Commerce. Its finding were based on statistics from 120 of the city's key retailers across eight categories, including supermarkets, department stores, home appliance retailers, and catering outlets. More