Jia Huili:

Due to the time limit, we'll take two final questions.

Elephant News:

We have noticed that the newly released data include a new indicator of online retail sales of goods and services. What is the rationale behind this? What does it cover? Thank you.

Fu Linghui:

Thank you for your questions. There is an important change in this year's consumption-related indicators, with the indicator tracking "online retail sales of goods and services" being published for the first time, with the "online retail sales" indicator being discontinued. The "online retail sales of goods and services" indicator is obtained by optimizing and improving the previous "online retail sales" indicator. The main difference is that the "online retail sales of goods and services" indicator expands the statistical scope of online service platforms and strengthens the calculation of online services retail sales. The previously published "online retail sales" indicator mainly included two items. The first is the online retail sales of physical goods, mainly reflecting the online sales of goods. The second is the online retail sales of non-physical goods, mainly reflecting the service retail sales on major platforms.

In recent years, with the rapid development of online services, the NBS has strengthened the statistics on online service retail. Based on the previous indicator of "online retail sales of non-physical goods," the NBS optimized and improved the indicator by bringing more online service retail platforms into the scope of statistical surveys, calculating and releasing the "online service retail sales" indicator. At the same time, the name of the previously released "online retail sales of physical goods" indicator has been adjusted to "online retail sales of goods" indicator, with its statistical scope and connotation unchanged. The name of "online retail sales" indicator has been adjusted to "online retail sales of goods and services". After the adjustment, the total volume of online retail sales of goods and services has expanded, compared to the previous online retail sales, mainly due to the increase in online service retail sales.

Next, the NBS will further strengthen statistical monitoring of market sales to better reflect the development of consumption, and provide high-quality statistical information to all sectors of society. We also welcome valuable suggestions on statistical work from media friends and the general public. We will continuously improve related statistical work based on your suggestions to better serve high-quality economic and social development. Thank you.