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      "name": "Online retail sales of goods (year to date)",
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      "start": "2020-01-01",
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      "org": "National Bureau of Statistics of China",
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      "document_title": "Total Retail Sales of Consumer Goods Went Up by 4.6 percent in December 2020",
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      "quote": "In 2020, China's online retail sales was 11,760.1 billion yuan, an increase of 10.9 percent over the previous year, and the growth rate was 0.6 percent lower than that from January to November. Among them, the online retail sales of physical goods reached 9,759 billion yuan, an increase of 14.8 percent, accounting for 24.9 percent of the total retail sales of social consumer goods;",
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      "apa": "National Bureau of Statistics of China. (2021). Total Retail Sales of Consumer Goods Went Up by 4.6 percent in December 2020. Retrieved September 30, 2026, from https://www.stats.gov.cn/english/PressRelease/202101/t20210119_1812515.html. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_NBS2020GDSTOT03",
      "bibtex": "@misc{nbschina2021onlinestot03,\n  author       = {{National Bureau of Statistics of China}},\n  title        = {Total Retail Sales of Consumer Goods Went Up by 4.6 percent in December 2020},\n  year         = {2021},\n  howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org},\n  url          = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_NBS2020GDSTOT03},\n  note         = {Original source: https://www.stats.gov.cn/english/PressRelease/202101/t20210119\\_1812515.html. Accessed September 30, 2026.}\n}"
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