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Online retail sales hit 3.86 trillion yuan

China's online retail sales reached 3.86 trillion yuan ($562 billion) in the first five months of this year, accounting for over one-fifth of the country's total retail sales of consumer goods, industrial data showed. E-commerce remains a key driver of consumption growth in 2019, according to the 2019 China E-Commerce H1 Report released by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. The number of e-commerce users continued to grow, as the country's online shoppers totaled 610 million by December 2018 and 97 people out of 100 use mobile phones to shop online, the CASS report said.

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