China's overall retail sales rise 21.4 percnet in first half of 2008
2008-07-17 02:56:26 GMT 2008-07-17 10:56:26 (Beijing Time) Xinhua English
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BEIJING, July 17 (Xinhua) -- China's total retail sales of consumer goods reached 5,104.3 billion yuan 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 NBS.
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