In the first 10 months this year, economy of Nanjing was still kept in rapid
and smooth development with high increase in terms of both income and
consumption of residents.
According to the statistic data, by the end of this October, DPI of Nanjing
had reached 12.593 RMB with an increase of 23.5% as compared with the same
period of last year.
The increase in income has led to the increase in consumer volume. The scope
of increase of consumer volume was higher than that of income. In the first 10
months this year, the average consumer volume of residents reached 8,939.54 RMB
with an increase of 26.2% as compared with the same period of last year. Among 8
kinds of consumer goods, the increase degree of 6 ones exceeded the average
level. The increase degree of clothing, articles and service of daily life,
medical health, transportation and telecommunication, service of education,
culture and entertainment as well as varied merchandises and service was 44.9%,
59.5%, 29.1%, 43.9%, 39.0% and 33.0% respectively.
In this October, with the "Golden Week" of the National Day and the 10th
National Games, the retail volume of social merchandises rapidly increased to
about 9.1 billion RMB as compared with 8 billion RMB in this September, hence
increasing 17.4% as compared with the same period of last year. The retail
volume of food and beverage reached 961 million RMB with an increase of 26% as
compare with that of last month, hence covering 10.6% of the total retailed
volume.
In the first 10 months, the total retail volume of social merchandises
reached 92.64 billion RMB with an increase of 16.3% as compared with the same
period of last year.
