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Article: BRIEFING - ASIA RETAIL - JULY 17, 2008.
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- July 17, 2008
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An executive briefing on retail for July 17, 2008, prepared by Asia Pulse (http://www.asiapulse.com), the real-time, Asia-based wire with exclusive news, commercial intelligence and business opportunities.
CHINA'S OVERALL RETAIL SALES RISE 21.4PCT 1H 2008
BEIJING - China's total retail sales of consumer goods reached 5,104.3 billion yuan ($US747 million) in the first half of this year, up 21.4 per cent year on year, according to statistics released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Thursday.
The growth rate represents an increase of 6.0 percentage points over the same period of last year, said Li Xiaochao, spokesman with NBS.
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