摘要
On May 17, 2016, the Ministry of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China (the "MOFCOM") held a regular press conference, at which, Shen Danyang, the spokesman, briefed the situation of the business performance in April 2016, and responded to the hot issues highly concerned by domestic and overseas media. Part of it is selected to share with our readers.
Market performance
In April, the domestic consumer market presented a steady growth trend. The retail sales of consumer goods reached RMB 2.46 trillion, go- ing up 10.1% year on year, 0.1 per- centage points higher than that of the same growt period last year and the actual h was 9.3% with the price factor excluded.