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Sep 20Sun
  1. China Tourism News

    MOFCOM: Service Retail Sales Up 4.9% in Jan-Aug

    Data from the consumption promotion department of China's Ministry of Commerce shows that in January-August this year, total retail sales of consumer goods and services rose 2.5% year on year, while service retail sales grew 4.9%, outpacing goods retail sales by 3.9 percentage points. Retail sales in tourism consulting and rental services and in cultural and sports leisure services maintained rapid growth. Over the same period, rural consumer goods retail sales reached 4.4 trillion yuan, up 2.3%, 1.3 percentage points faster than urban areas; county and township consumer goods sales accounted for 39% of total retail sales of consumer goods, up 0.3 percentage points from a year earlier.

Sep 17Thu
  1. China Tourism News

    Leveraging Culture and Tourism to Sustain Service Consumption Growth

    China Tourism News published a commentary citing National Bureau of Statistics data: from January to August, total retail sales of consumer goods and services grew 2.5% year-on-year, with service retail up 4.9% and goods retail up 1.0%; tourism consulting and rental services retail grew over 10%. The article argues culture and tourism consumption has dual material and spiritual attributes and should leverage culture and technology to innovate products and drive service consumption.

Sep 15Tue
  1. China Tourism News

    China Tourism Consulting and Rental Retail Sales Grow Over 10% in Jan-Aug

    On September 15, the State Council Information Office held a press conference at which the National Bureau of Statistics presented China's economic performance for August 2026. In January-August, services consumption grew well and the cultural-tourism leisure services market expanded. In August, the national services production index rose 4.1% year on year, and 4.7% for January-August; the August services business activity index was 49.3% and the business activity expectations index 55.5%. In January-August, total retail sales of consumer goods and services rose 2.5% year on year, with services retail sales up 4.9% and goods retail sales up 1.0%. Retail sales of communications and informati…

Sep 14Mon
  1. China Tourism News

    Industrial Tourism as a New Driver of Service Consumption

    An opinion piece in China Tourism News argues that service consumption is a key focus for expanding consumption, with tourism service consumption among the most promising growth areas. Industrial tourism, built on real production sites, industrial culture and interactive experiences, converts industrial space into experiential consumption venues, production capacity into cultural-tourism products and business travellers into leisure consumers, expanding consumption without large-scale new construction. The article proposes a two-way empowerment mechanism: industry supplies scarce scenes, technical education content and business traffic, while tourism adds brand cultural premium and opens se…