According to news released from Shishi office of Fujian Inspection and Quarantine Bureau, footwear exports in the city set a record high to 112.974 million U.S. dollars in the first eight months, up 39.4% from a year earlier.An official of Fujian Inspection and Quarantine Bureau expressed the satisfaction on footwear exports, and said the unite price increase is evident to the improvement on competitiveness and value-added in footwear exports, high-priced footwear exported to EU and America shows strong growth, shoe made from textile to EU grew 199.1% while exports to Middle East, Africa, ASEAN and other emerging regions remained the same or even slight decline. The Total Sales of Social Consumer Goods reached 1257 billion yuan in August in China, up 18.4% from the same period last year. The growth rate is 0.5 percentage point higher than that in July. From Jan. to Aug., the Total Sales of Social Consumer Goods accumulated to 9749.2 billion yuan, up 18.2% year on year, the same pace of growth with first seven months. By the category of regions, the Total Sales of Social Consumer Goods in urban regions were 1093 billion yuan in August, up 18.8%; while 164 billion yuan in rural regions, up 15.9%.

The total sales of clothes, shoes, caps, knittings and textiles were 39.9 billion yuan this month, up 22.1% on a yearly basis, but the pace of growth were 2.3 points down from one month earlier. From Jan. to Aug., the total sales of clothes, shoes, caps, knittings and textiles accumulated to 354 billion yuan, up 23.7%. That??s 0.1 point lower than that of first seven.
POST: 2024-11-25