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Retail sales rise 21.4% in first half
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-07-17 11:04

China's total retail sales of consumer goods reached 5.1 trillion yuan ($746.98 billion) in the first half of this year, up 21.4 percent year on year, according to statistics released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Thursday.

The growth rate represents an increase of 6.0 percentage points over the same period of last year, said Li Xiaochao, spokesman with the NBS.


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