It was learned from Chenzhou Municipal Statistics Bureau that though affected by some negative factors as slower development speed of global economy, stricter control of public funds of consumption, Chenzhou city’s retails sales of consumer goods was still improved stably from this January to September on the basis of some positive factors as increasing of autos sales, better operation condition of accommodation and catering, and etc.

From the beginning of 2014, Chenzhou city vigorously implemented the development strategy of expanding domestic demand by exploring the consumption potential and improving the consumption condition, which greatly helped to promote the consumption of urban and rural areas. From January to September, the total sales of consumer goods hit 50.91billion yuan with an increase of 12.9% which was 0.3% higher than last year, 0.4% higher than the first quarter and 0.1% higher than Hunan provincial average level. Its increasing speed ranked the third place of Hunan province. The total sales of consumption goods of above designed size enterprises (units) was amounted to 16.08billion yuan with an increase of 18%, which contributed 8.2% to the increase of the total amount of Chenzhou city.

Better sales condition for wholesale industry

Benefited with the better trend of macroeconomic and higher demands for energy products, the bulk commodity wholesale businesses became better and drove the wholesale industry of Chenzhou to be with better sales condition. From January to September, the total sales of wholesale industry of Chenzhou city hit 6.42billion yuan with an increase of 15.1% which was 1.2% higher than last year. The recovery of bulk commodity wholesale was the key factor helped to increase the sales of wholesale industry of Chenzhou city. The total sales of above designated size petroleum and its products were amounted to 4.31billion yuan with a decrease of 6.0% which was 8.7% narrower than last year. The retail industry was kept a stable increase in the first nine months. From January to September, the total sales of retail industry of Chenzhou city hit 37.32billion yuan, up 13%, 1.87billion yuan of which was for above designated size retail industry with an increase of 15%, up 6.7%. 163 enterprises of the above designated size retail industry were with an increase of over 20%, covering 47.3% of the total which was 2.7% higher than last year.

Rapid increase of auto sales

Thanks to the upgrading of people’s living standards and some favorable activities as group purchase and exhibitions, the sales of autos were increased rapidly in Chenzhou city. Auto consumption became one of the hottest topics of current consumption, which greatly contributed to the upgrading of consumption structure. From January to September, the total sales of autos hit 3.81billion yuan with an increase of 22.9%, up 3.6%, which took active roles on the promotion of the increase of Chenzhou city’s total sales of consumption goods. The amount of auto sales took 7.5% of the total amount of Chenzhou city and contributed 12% to the above designated size retail sales. It helped to drive the retail sales of Chenzhou city with an increase of 2.1%, which ranked next to petroleum products only. According to the data, 136 autos were sold on the auto exhibition held in Chenzhou International Convention and Exhibition Center from this September 12-14, which was amounted to 130million yuan. Furthermore, 2014 China Hunan Tourism Industry Expo was successfully held in Chenzhou city from this September 19 to 21, which helped to sell the tourism products with the amount of 110million yuan.

Stable development of accommodation and catering industry

Though it still suffered from the bad condition of medium and high-end catering, accommodation and catering industry was still kept stable performance in Chenzhou city, especially for the economic and express accommodation and catering enterprises whose passenger flow, occupancy rate and other aspects were higher than the average rate of the industry. From January to September, the total amount of under designated size accommodation industry hit 1.13billion yuan with an increase of 16.5%, up 1.3%, while the under designated size catering industry hit 4.65billion yuan with an increase of 18.7%, up 0.6%. Both their increasing rates were 6.6% and 0.4% higher than above designated size enterprises’ level respectively.