By Liu Lu

During Labour Day holiday, consumption activities were splendid, daily necessities supplies were sufficient, consumer market was thriving on both purchase and sales. From 29 April to 5 May, 91 retail, accommodation, and catering enterprises under municipal level key monitoring of our city realized sales of 650 million yuan, there is an increase of 44.2% over the same period of last year. The increase is leading in Jiangsu province.

From the sales condition of 16 monitored enterprises in the 5-day holiday, 7 department stores and shopping centers realized sales of 170 million yuan, there is a year-on-year increase of 123.5% ; 6 large comprehensive supermarkets achieved sales of 46.294 million yuan, there is a year-on-year increase of 32.3%; 3 home appliance stores achieved sales of 49.725 million yuan, there is a year-on-year increase of 46.2%. The business growth of department stores and shopping center is relatively faster.