The two-year average growth was 1.5 per cent.
In the January-August period, retail sales gained by 18.1 per cent year on year and was up 8 per cent from the same period in 2019, according to the NBS.
In the first eight months, the catering industry saw a year-on-year increase of 34.4 per cent in revenue, as the hardest-hit sector continued to recover from COVID-19 disruptions, an official news agency reported.
Online consumption remained a bright spot, with online retail sales rising 19.7 per cent year on year to reach about 8.12 trillion yuan in the Jan.uary-August period.
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