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China retail sales up 10.2 pct in 2017

Xinhua,January 18, 2018 Adjust font size:

BEIJING, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) -- China's retail sales of consumer goods grew 10.2 percent year on year in 2017, 0.2 percentage point slower than the previous year, official data showed on Thursday.

In December alone, retail sales expanded 9.4 percent, according to the National Bureau of Statistics. Enditem