Drinks sector suffers New Year hangover

Baijiu industry takes greatest hit from crackdown on extravagance

Although 2015 has so far started on a relatively positive note for China's drinks industry with a slight increase in stock prices, the nation's baijiu sector remains sluggish.

Gao Jianwei, a Shanghai-based retailer of the Chinese liquor, says 2014 was a really tough year as it took him more than eight months to sell six cases of Moutai, China's national liquor.