OREANDA-NEWS.  February 07, 2012. Total retail sales of social consumer goods hit 490.06 billion yuan last year, up 18% year on year and 0.9 percentage higher than that of national average level, due to stable increase of consumer goods market and significant improvement of consuming capacity.

As the ultimate demand, consuming demand is the basic driving force of economic growth. Anhui adopted a series of policies to fuel consumer goods market in rural and urban areas. Total urban retail sales of social consumer goods reached 406.12 billion yuan last year, up 18.2% year on year, and total rural retail sales of social consumer goods hit 83.94 billion yuan, increasing by 17.5% compared with the same period last year.