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China Data Table: Retail Sales By Category

                                Aug   Jul   Jun   May   Apr   Mar  Jan-Feb   Dec
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Total Year-on-year             10.1  10.4  11.0  10.7  10.7  10.9      9.5  10.9
Year-to-date                   10.4  10.4  10.4  10.3  10.2  10.0      9.5  10.4
Month-on-month                 0.76  0.71  0.90  0.80  0.76  0.86       --  0.84
Urban retail sales              9.9  10.2  10.7  10.4  10.4  10.7      9.2  10.9
Rural retail sales             11.5  11.7  12.9  12.7  12.6  12.2     11.8  11.2
Grain & food oil                8.5  10.7  10.9  14.4  12.6  12.0      9.7   8.6
Clothing                        8.9   6.4   7.3   8.0  10.0   6.4      6.1   7.1
Stationery                      5.8  10.8  16.4   5.0   3.8  17.2     13.4  15.3
Household non-durables          7.0   7.1  11.2   8.7   8.0   7.1      9.2  13.9
Home appliances                 8.4  13.1  13.3  13.6  10.2  12.4      5.6   9.5
Cosmetics                      14.7  12.7  17.0  12.9   7.7   8.7     10.6  11.0
Furniture                      11.3  12.4  14.8  13.5  13.9  13.8     11.8   9.9
Building & decoration
materials                       8.8  13.1  15.2  11.0  13.4  17.8     12.9  10.2
Gold, silver & jewellery        6.4   2.6   6.3   9.6   7.5   7.2      8.2   4.8
Communications equipment       12.2   7.9  18.5   1.9   6.1  11.6     10.7   8.0
Auto                            7.9   8.1   9.8   7.0   6.8   8.6     -1.0  14.4
Oil & oil products              4.5   5.6   4.2   9.1  12.1  11.3     14.0   7.1
     All figures year-over-year percentage change unless otherwise specified.
     Source: National Bureau of Statistics of China
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