China's consumer spending reports steady growth in Spring Festival holiday

NAMPA / Xinhua

2026-02-20

BEIJING, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) -- Chinese consumers ushered in the Spring Festival holiday with a burst of spending, filling restaurants and malls and traveling across the country, which offered an early-year boost to the consumption sector. In the first four days of the holiday break, average daily sales at major retail and catering businesses rose 8.6 percent from the corresponding period a year earlier, according to data from the Ministry of Com......

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