Online Consumption Continues To Be Strong

　　On April 5, the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Commerce released a news release saying that during this year's Qingming holiday, Beijing's commercial departments and commercial service enterprises at all levels were strict, practical and fast in preventing and controlling the epidemic, strengthening organization and coordination, and doing a good job of market supply and service protection. Vegetables, pork, grain and oil and other daily necessities were in sufficient supply and prices were stable, the theme of the Beijing consumption season was exciting, the construction of an international consumption centre city helped to improve and upgrade consumption, and seasonal goods such as flowers, pastries, tea and spring clothes were in demand. Jingdong big data showed that during the festival, sales of leisure food products increased by 25.3% year-on-year, and sales of tea on the Jingdong platform increased by more than 22.8% year-on-year, with sales of Zhang Yiyuan, Daxiangcun and Wu Yutai, all of which were monitored by the focus, exceeding 6 million yuan.

　　Shaanxi Provincial Department of Commerce on 390 retail sample enterprises and 158 catering sample enterprises monitoring data show that during the holiday period monitoring enterprise sales of 714 million yuan, of which 697 million yuan of commodity sales, catering income of 16,967,700 yuan. The average retail prices of food, edible oil, meat, vegetables, poultry, eggs, dairy products, sugar, salt, fruit and aquatic products fell by six, rose by three and were two times flat, basically the same as before the holiday. Compared to the pre-holiday period, the wholesale trade volume of meat was 335.8 tonnes, an increase of 7.04%; the wholesale trade volume of poultry was 116.2 tonnes, an increase of 3.93%; the wholesale trade volume of eggs was 80.1 tonnes, an increase of 4.52%; and the wholesale trade volume of fruits was 21.2 tonnes, an increase of 25.7%, with strong demand during the holiday period.

　　Data from Qingdao, Shandong province, showed that the city's 10 key trade monitoring enterprises (groups) achieved sales of 210 million yuan during the holiday season, an average daily increase of 8% over the pre-holiday period and 19.7% over the epidemic period. The city's key catering enterprises, on the basis of good epidemic prevention and control, adopted an online + offline business model and made efforts to provide consumers with safe, high-quality and diverse catering services. During the three days of the holiday, the city's 20 key catering enterprises achieved a turnover of 22 million yuan, showing a continuous positive trend.