E-commerce, live-streaming help drive recovery in China’s retail scene amid coronavirus slump

Online sales of physical goods surged 36.3 per cent year-on-year during the Labour Day holiday in China, helping to drive the recovery of the country’s retail scene which has been suffering from the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, China’s Ministry of Commerce said at a briefing on Friday.“The epidemic has given rise to increasing interest in new types of consumption such as online grocery shopping, online education and telemedicine,” said vice-minister for commerce Wang Bingnan at the…

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