Jiang Zengwei, the deputy director of China's Ministry of Commerce, and Fang Aiqing, the assistant director of the Ministry of Commerce, said during an interview that China plans to boost its overall consumption through five measures.

According to statistics from China's Ministry of Commerce, China's retail sales hit CNY340 billion during the "golden week" of Spring Festival 2010, which was an increase of 17.2% over those of the same period in 2009.

China's Ministry of Commerce has issued a series of standards on skills for employees in the retail industry and the standards are officially put into effect from August 1, 2009.

Chinese juice maker Huiyuan Group has announced plans to invest CNY300 million to build a juice facility in Shanxi's Yangling Agricultural Hi-tech Industries Demonstration Zone.

According to the statistics provided by China's Ministry of Commerce, during the three-day May Day holiday retail sales of 1,000 major retailers in China reached CNY12 billion, a year-on-year increase of 9%.

News from the Press Office of China's Ministry of Commerce is that from January 25 to February 31, 2009, which was the Spring Festival holiday week in China, and despite the economic slowdown, the country's total retail sales reached CNY290 billion, a year-on-year increase of 13.8%.