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China becomes largest online retail market for 12 consecutive years

Xinhua Updated: Jan 26, 2025
Sellers promote freshly picked peaches via livestreaming at a plantation in Shiyan, Hubei province, in August. CAO ZHONGHONG/FOR CHINA DAILY

BEIJING -- China has become the world's largest online retail market for 12 consecutive years, with online retail sales reaching 15.5 trillion yuan (about $2.16 trillion) in 2024, the Ministry of Commerce said Friday.

China's wholesale and retail industries have made steady progress driven by various policies, providing strong support for expanding domestic demand and forging a new development paradigm, Vice-Commerce Minister Sheng Qiuping told a press conference.

Sheng said that the added value of the wholesale and retail industries reached 13.8 trillion yuan in 2024, accounting for 10.2 percent of the GDP and playing a vital role in smoothing circulation, creating jobs and reducing logistics costs.

The ministry will work with relevant departments to further enrich supporting policies, implement detailed measures and accelerate the promotion of high-quality development of wholesale and retail industries, so as to further smooth the circulation of the national economy, Sheng added.

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China becomes largest online retail market for 12 consecutive years

Xinhua Updated: Jan 26, 2025
Sellers promote freshly picked peaches via livestreaming at a plantation in Shiyan, Hubei province, in August. CAO ZHONGHONG/FOR CHINA DAILY

BEIJING -- China has become the world's largest online retail market for 12 consecutive years, with online retail sales reaching 15.5 trillion yuan (about $2.16 trillion) in 2024, the Ministry of Commerce said Friday.

China's wholesale and retail industries have made steady progress driven by various policies, providing strong support for expanding domestic demand and forging a new development paradigm, Vice-Commerce Minister Sheng Qiuping told a press conference.

Sheng said that the added value of the wholesale and retail industries reached 13.8 trillion yuan in 2024, accounting for 10.2 percent of the GDP and playing a vital role in smoothing circulation, creating jobs and reducing logistics costs.

The ministry will work with relevant departments to further enrich supporting policies, implement detailed measures and accelerate the promotion of high-quality development of wholesale and retail industries, so as to further smooth the circulation of the national economy, Sheng added.

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