Ministry of Commerce releases data on Spring Festival shopping: as of February 8th, online retail sales reached 9897.3 billion yuan.

Yang Mu, Director of the Market Operation and Consumption Promotion Department of the Ministry of Commerce, introduced at a press conference of the State Council Information Office on the 11th that, according to the monitoring of key e-commerce platforms by the Ministry of Commerce's big data, as of February 8, the national online retail sales reached 989.73 billion yuan since the launch of the Spring Festival shopping season. Among them, the popularity of online service consumption continues to rise, with online catering and online tourism increasing by 11.5% and 5.3% respectively.