TRS 2020

In September, the total retail sales of consumer goods totaled 3,529.5 billion yuan ($528.01 billion), up 3.3 percent year on year (the actual growth was 2.4 percent after deducting the price factor, and the following are all nominal growth). Among them, the retail sales of consumer goods excluding automobiles reached 3,142.8 billion yuan, an increase of 2.4 percent.

From January to September, the total retail sales of consumer goods reached 27,332.4 billion yuan, down 7.2 percent year on year. Among them, the retail sales of consumer goods excluding automobiles totaled 24,658.8 billion yuan, a decline of 7.2 percent.

According to the location of business units, in September, the retail sales of consumer goods in urban areas reached 3,020 billion yuan, an increase of 3.2 percent over the same period of last year; the retail sales of consumer goods in rural areas reached 509.5 billion yuan, an increase of 4.0 percent. From January to September, the retail sales of consumer goods in urban areas totaled 23,684.3 billion yuan, a decrease of 7.3 percent over the same period of last year, while that of rural consumer goods was 3,648.1 billion yuan, a decrease of 6.7 percent.

According to consumption types, in September, the retail sales of goods reached 3,157.9 billion yuan, an increase of 4.1 percent over the same period of last year, and the catering income was 371.5 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 2.9 percent. From January to September, the retail sales of goods reached 24,809.8 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 5.1 percent; and the catering revenue was 2,522.6 billion yuan, a decrease of 23.9 percent.

According to the retail business type, the retail sales of supermarkets in the retail enterprises above the designated size increased by 2.9 percent year-on-year from January to September, while the department stores, professional stores and specialty stores decreased by 16.6, 9.2 and 6.8 percent respectively.

From January to September, the national online retail sales reached 8,006.5 billion yuan, an increase of 9.7 percent year-on-year, 0.2 percentage point higher than that from January to August. Among them, the online retail sales of physical goods reached 6,647.7 billion yuan, an increase of 15.3 percent, accounting for 24.3 percent 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 35.7, 3.3 and 16.8 percent respectively.

Note:

Total Retail Sales of Consumer Goods(TRS) refers to the sale of physical commodities or the income from catering services sold or provided by enterprises (units) to individuals, social organizations for non-production and non-operation purposes.

Online retail sales refers to the sale of goods and services through public online trading platform (including self-built websites and third-party platform). Goods and services include physical goods and non-physical goods (such as virtual products and services).

The total retail sales figures for consumer goods include online retail sales of physical goods but exclude online retail sales of non-physical goods.