With the stabilization of the epidemic prevention and control, the production and life recovered orderly, especially the implementation of various consumption promotion policies since the beginning of June, including issuing consumption coupons, fully opening the cultural tourism market, and fully resuming the operation of travel agencies and so on, the consumer goods market in Sanmenxia showed a trend of stabilization and recovery. In the first half of this year, the total retail sales of social consumer goods in Sanmenxia increased by 2.1% year on year, and in June it increased by 4.5% year on year, which ranked first in the province.

In the first half of this year, the total retail sales of social consumer goods in Sanmenxia reached 27.75 billion yuan, which was up 2.1% year on year and 1.8 % higher than the provincial average. In June, the total retail sales of social consumer goods in Sanmenxia reached 4.931 billion yuan, with a year-on-year growth of 4.5%, 1.4% higher than the provincial average level. The growth rate recovered from 4.9% in May to 4.5%, which ranked the first in the province.

In the first half of this year, the value of retail sales of wholesale and retail goods of units above quota in Sanmenxia reached 5.946 billion yuan, with a year-on-year growth of 15.9%, accounting for 92.7% of the retail sales of consumer goods of units above quota. Of the 22 categories of retail sales, 14 kinds of categories of retail sales maintained an increase of 63.6%. Among them, the growth rate of tobacco, alcohol, petroleum and products, furniture and other categories exceeded 20%.

Basic life consumption continued to improve. In the first half of this year, the retail sales of grain, oil and food commodities of units above designated size in Sanmenxia reached 698 million yuan, with a year-on-year growth of 19.8%, 2.1% higher than that from January to May; The retail sales of beverages, tobacco & alcohol were 94 million yuan and 191 million yuan respectively, which was up 15.0% and 39.8% over the same period last year, and 1.0% and 7.1 % higher than that from January to May respectively. The retail sales of the above three categories of commodities accounted for 15.3% of the retail sales of units above designated size in Sanmenxia, which drove the growth of 3.25% of the retail sales of units above designated size in Sanmenxia.

As the pace of consumption upgrading accelerates and the consumption increases, the public has strong demand for upgrading goods, and the consumption of upgrading goods grows rapidly. Among them, influenced by the rising oil price, coupled with the issuance of consumption coupons, the retail sales of petroleum and products above quota in Sanmenxia reached 1.137 billion yuan, with a year-on-year growth of 28.8%. In addition, the retail sales of furniture, communications equipment, hardware and electrical materials, cultural office supplies and other upgraded categories increased by 21.8%, 17.5%, 12.4% and 12.4% respectively.

The consumer goods market in rural areas is better than that in urban areas, and the structure of urban and rural areas continues to improve. In the first half of this year, the urban units above quota in Sanmenxia achieved the retail sales of consumer goods of 5.98 billion yuan, a year-on-year growth of 13.3%, rural units above quota achieved the retail sales of consumer goods of 437 million yuan, a year-on-year growth of 31.7%, rural growth is 18.4% faster than urban, so urban and rural structure continued to optimize.