Coresight Bites: Slow Recovery for China’s Retail Sector

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• In China in 2021, total retail sales of consumer goods, excluding food services but including automobiles and gasoline, experienced a year-over-year increase of around 12%, according to data from China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).
• However, in the first half of 2022, total retail sales grew by just 0.1% year over year, with growth depressed by meaningful declines in April and May, before a return to positive growth in June 2022. Throughout the rest of 2022, we expect the retail market in China to slowly recover, hampered by continued macroeconomic uncertainty and other factors.
• Beyond 2022, we expect the China retail market to gradually recover as the pandemic subsides. However, we predict that the high-single-digit or double-digit growth rates seen prior to the pandemic are largely over.

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