| China Retail Sales up 14.8 pct in April |
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| Wednesday,May 13,2009 Posted: 14:43 BJT(0643 GMT) |
| From:Xinhua Article type:Reproduced |
China's retail sales rose 14.8 percent in April year on year to 934.32 billion yuan (136.8 billion U.S. dollars), the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced Wednesday.
The growth rate was 0.1 percentage point higher than in March.
Urban retail sales rose 13.9 percent to 632.96 billion yuan, while rural sales were up 16.7 percent to 301.36 billion yuan.
From January to April, retail sales totaled 3.87 trillion yuan, up 15 percent over the same period last year, the NBS said.
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