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MNI DATA TABLE: China August Retail Sales By Category

MNI (Singapore)
                                Aug   Jul   Jun   May   Apr   Mar  Jan-Feb   Dec
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Total Year-on-year              9.0   8.8   9.0   8.5   9.4  10.1      9.7   9.4
Year-to-date                    9.3   9.3   9.4   9.5   9.7   9.8      9.7  10.2
Month-on-month                 0.65  0.69  0.80  0.39  0.70  0.78       na  0.76
Urban retail sales              8.8   8.6   8.8   8.3   9.2   9.9      9.6   9.3
Rural retail sales             10.2  10.1  10.4   9.6  10.6  10.9     10.7  10.1
Grain & food oil               10.1   9.5  13.0   7.3   8.0  11.2      9.7   9.7
Clothing                        7.0   8.7  10.0   6.6   9.2  14.8      7.7   9.7
Stationery                      5.4   1.8   3.5   8.1  18.3  12.6     -0.9  12.7
Household non-durables         15.8  11.3  15.8  10.3  12.0  16.9     10.1   5.4
Home appliances                 4.8   0.6  14.3   7.6   6.7  15.4      9.2   8.7
Cosmetics                       7.8   7.8  11.5  10.3  15.1  22.7     12.5  13.8
Furniture                       9.5  11.1  15.0   8.6   8.1  10.9      8.5  12.5
Building & decoration
materials                       7.9   5.4   7.2   6.5  11.4  10.2      6.8   5.2
Gold, silver & jewelry         14.1   8.2   7.9   6.7   5.9  20.4      3.0   0.4
Communications equipment        6.4   9.6  16.1  12.2  10.8   1.6     10.7  13.4
Auto                           -3.2  -2.0  -7.0  -1.0   3.5   3.5      9.7   2.2
Oil & oil products             19.6  18.4  16.5  14.0  13.3   9.1      9.1  10.6
All figures year-over-year percentage change unless otherwise specified.
     Source: National Bureau of Statistics of China
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