Ministry of Commerce: It is necessary to pay more effort to promote consumption recovery

China Economic Net, Beijing, July 29th. The Ministry of Commerce held a special press conference on "Business Work and Operations in the First Half of 2022". An Baojun, Deputy Director of the Department of Consumption Promotion, introduced that in the first half of this year, my country's consumer market has gone through stable start. Three stages of pressure downward and gradual rise. Affected by the epidemic, the total amount of communities in 3, 4, and 5 months has experienced negative growth. With the general improvement of the epidemic prevention and control situation, the implementation of consumer policies and measures to promote consumption policies and measures is effective, and the recent consumer market has shown a positive recovery situation. In June, the total number of community zero increased by 3.1%year -on -year, and the growth rate achieved negative to positive. However, the foundation of consumption recovery is still unstable, and it takes more effort to promote the continuous recovery of consumption. main feature:

The first is that the consumption stops and falls back. As some passenger car purchase taxes have fallen by half and policies and measures such as steadily increasing car appliances consumption have gradually landed, the consumption consumption is significantly warmed up. In June, the retail sales of automobiles above the limit increased by 13.9%year -on -year, and the growth rate increased significantly compared to May.

The second is that the service consumption has gradually recovered. In June, although the national catering revenue decreased by 4%year -on -year, the decline was narrowed by 17.1 percentage points from May; the box office revenue increased by 1.7 times compared with May, and it has returned to the level of 90%in the same period last year. During the Dragon Boat Festival holidays, domestic tourists and tourist revenue were restored to 80 % and 60 % before the epidemic, respectively, and the degree of recovery was increased by more than 20 percentage points compared with the "May 1st" holiday.

Third, online retail sales have risen steadily. In the first half of the year, the online retail sales of the physical commodity were 5.45 trillion yuan, an increase of 5.6%year -on -year, accounting for 25.9%of the total amount of the agency, an increase of 2.2 percentage points from the same period last year. The retail sales of agricultural products were 250.67 billion yuan, an increase of 11.2%year -on -year. The new model of e -commerce new business format has developed rapidly, and the live broadcast and sales of e -commerce platforms have achieved rapid growth.

Fourth, green health and intelligent consumption flourish. In the first half of the year, the sales volume of new energy vehicles reached 2.6 million, an increase of 1.2 times year -on -year, accounting for 21.6%of the sales of new vehicles; at the end of June, the number of new energy vehicles exceeded 10 million units. Sales of smart home equipment, fitness equipment, outdoor products, etc. show rapid growth trend.

In general, with the gradual control of the epidemic and the effective implementation of various consumption policies, consumption is expected to continue to recover and show a good development trend in the second half of the year.

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