On September 5th, the State Council held a press conference on the operation of the national economy in August 2121. Fu Linghui, spokesman of the National Bureau of Statistics, said that it should be said that the recovery of consumption is based and conditional. With the stable employment of residents, the increase of residents' income and the improvement of domestic consumption environment, especially the effective control of the epidemic situation, there is hope that consumption will continue to recover in the later period.

Question for reporters: The epidemic has been under control for several months. Why did the expected retaliatory consumption after the epidemic never come? Fu Linghui said that it should be said that the overall recovery of consumption is still progressing steadily. Especially in this month's catering consumption, the decline of catering income has narrowed significantly compared with last month, indicating that under the condition that the epidemic situation is effectively controlled, everyone's desire to go out for catering consumption is increasing.

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The consumption growth rate in August turned positive for the first time in this year:

On September 5, the National Bureau of Statistics released data showing that the total retail sales of social consumer goods in August was 3,357 billion yuan, up 1.5% year-on-year, which was the first positive growth this year. Among them, the retail sales of consumer goods other than automobiles was 3,115.8 billion yuan, down by 1.6%, and the growth rate also slowed down significantly.

among them, according to the location of business units, the retail sales of urban consumer goods reached 2,927.3 billion yuan in August, up 1.5% year-on-year, and decreased by 1.1% in July; The retail sales of rural consumer goods was 429.8 billion yuan, up by 1.7%, and decreased by 1.3% in July.

by consumption type, in August, the retail sales of commodities reached 2,995 billion yuan, up 1.5% year-on-year, and the growth rate was 1.3 percentage points higher than that in July. The catering revenue was 361.9 billion yuan, down by 7.1%, and the decline rate was 4 percentage points narrower than that in July.

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