Xiamen’s consumer goods retail sales rose in January and February to 16.07 billion yuan ($2.59 billion), a 13 percent growth on 2014 and 2 percent higher than 2014’s growth rate.

Online retail sales increased to 1.38 billion yuan over the two months, a 182 percent increase over 2014 and accounting for 8.6 percent of the total number of consumer goods sales.

By Peng Juan from China Daily Fujian Bureau